Travel Training

Welcome to the Easter Seals Project ACTION Web section dedicated to the practice of travel training

1. Introduction to Travel Training Course -- ESPA is pleased to provide a free training initiative to increase the skills, knowledge and abilities of travel training professionals. Applications are now available for the next presentation of this three-day course March 3 - 5, 2010, in Arlington, Va. (suburban Washington, D.C.).
   
2. Join our online travel training community -- ESPA presents a Global Travel Training Community, providing a forum for members to pose questions, share answers, ideas and actual resources, discuss issues -- and much more.
   
3. Visit our Store for free, online publications and curricula -- Order actual reports and products on CD-rom free of charge, or download directly from the Store:

• Competencies for the Practice of Travel Instruction and Travel Training
• Travel Training for Student Success: The Route to Achieving Post-Secondary Student Outcomes
• Public Transportation: The Route to Freedom A Transportation Education Program for Students with Disabilities in Grades 8-12
• Buses and Trains for Everyone
• You Can Ride

Additional Resources

Association of Travel Instruction (ATI) -- a national professional association which exists to develop the relatively new professions of travel training instructor and travel trainer for seniors and persons with disabilities, other than those with blindness. The goal of ATI is to serve the practitioners who teach persons with disabilities and seniors to use public transit safely and independently. 

In 2008, ESPA hosted “Securing Funding for a New Travel Training Program” as part of a series of free distance learning events. In this session,Sarah Green of The Rapid and Frances Rankos of Pierce Transit discussed steps a transit agency can take to secure funding for a new travel training program.

For more information

Please contact Kristi Ross with your questions about travel training activities, or call 800-659-6428 toll free.