New! Every Ride Counts Campaign Guidance

Get the most out of NADTC's Every Ride Counts Campaign by using new guidance to bring attention to your transportation program. This newest addition to the campaign provides guidance to organizations on how to use the campaign materials to implement a transportation promotion strategy. The guidance details best practices for effective communications approaches, including how to identify target audiences, create strong messages and track campaign success. The guidance also contains advice from organizations that have used the Every Ride Counts campaign materials, and their strategies for using available resources.

Office Hours: The Importance of Accessing Mental Health Services

On Thursday, May 4 at 2:00 – 3:00 PM ET, NADTC will host an office hours session focused on the importance of access to mental and behavioral health services. Angela Weeks, Project Director at the Center for Excellence: LGBTQ+ Behavioral Health Equity, will join us in a discussion of the transportation challenges in accessing mental health services, and provide specific considerations when providing transportation to LGBTQ folks.  

NADTC’s office hours are designed to enhance training and technical assistance opportunities for attendees and offer further opportunities to interact with your peers, topic experts and NADTC staff. To foster small group discussion, attendance is capped at 30 participants.

Online Course: Why Serving Everyone Doesn't Serve Everyone

Please join NADTC in their newest online course being presented May 1-21! This course will explore the importance of prioritizing intentional efforts to ensure community transportation is truly available to everyone who needs it. In addition to broadening an understanding of equitable transportation, participants will gain access to resources and tools to improve equity in local transportation programs. The course is open to transit and human services transportation providers, and anyone involved in the development of materials and community engagement of their transportation program. Registration closes April 27

Blog: Accessible Public Transportation During Disaster, A Lifeline for People with Disabilities

Blog: Employee Engagement

To encourage recognition of transit drivers beyond Appreciation Day, celebrated each year in March, NADTC's newest blog focuses on some fundamental elements of leadership and how organizations can celebrate and embrace employee engagement in the workplace.

Every May, the Administration for Community Living (ACL) leads the nation’s observance of Older Americans Month. The 2023 theme is Aging Unbound, which offers an opportunity to explore diverse aging experiences and to discuss ways communities can overcome stereotypes. Visit ACL's website for promotional materials, and visit NADTC’s website for additional information on how transportation programs can help support older adults aging in place. 

The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) announces the opportunity to apply for $212 million in grants under the Public Transportation Emergency Relief Program to States, territories, local governmental authorities, Indian tribes, and other FTA recipients affected by major declared disasters occurring in 2017, 2020, 2021, and 2022. Applications are due May 26, 2023.