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ADA Paratransit: Important Findings from the Department of Transportation and the Federal Transit Administration

Presented by Marilyn Golden, Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund (DREDF)

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About the Training

Presenter Marilyn Golden, Policy Analyst with the Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund (DREDF), will discuss "ADA Paratransit: Important Findings from DOT and FTA". Session topics will include key findings and best practices in:

• Eligibility
• Origin to Destination Service
• On-Time Performance
• No-Shows

Presentation Handouts

• Topic Guides on ADA Transportation
• Presentation slides (Powerpoint)
• Presentation slides (text)
• Transcript

About the Presenter

Marilyn Golden is a Policy Analyst at the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF), a leading national law and policy center on disability civil rights in California and Washington D.C. She has been closely involved with the Americans with Disabilities Act throughout all the stages of its proposal and passage and now during its implementation. Marilyn Golden has played a key role in ADA transportation policy development, and authored or led many ADA transportation papers and projects.

In 2010, DREDF published the Topic Guides on ADA Transportation, which Golden co-authored with Russell Thatcher of TranSystems Corporation. The Topic Guides, funded by the Federal Transit Administration, are a series of seven technical assistance documents for transit agencies, riders, and advocates.

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This webinar is supported through the DBTAC Southwest ADA Center, a program of ILRU.  The Southwest ADA Center (www.SouthwestADA.org) is one of ten Disability and Business Technical Assistance Centers (DBTACs) funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) to provide training, technical assistance and materials dissemination on the Americans with Disabilities Act and other disability-related laws. NIDRR is part of the U.S. Department of Education.  

Call 1-800-949-4232 v/tty to reach the ADA Center that serves your area. The opinions and views expressed are those of the presenters and no endorsement by the funding agency should be inferred.

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