Solano Mobility Study

P 17 p Solano Mobility Study for Older Adults and People with Disabilities Ch2: Methodology In addition to mailings and emailing, each Mobility Summit was promoted on STA and partner websites and social media. NextDoor, a social media networking site for local neighborhood news, publicized the local Mobility Summit. Press releases were issued. Ads were placed in local publications whenever possible. Notices and User surveys were placed throughout the community in places like senior centers, libraries, community centers, and other appropriate venues. An RSVP process, supported by the STA Mobility Call Center, provided the project team with information to guide logistics such as room set-up, lunch count, and quantity of materials needed as well as information for organizers to determine if further follow up was needed to encourage invitees to attend. After each Mobility Summit, community input was compiled from each of the three discussion sessions, the prioritizing exercise, the clicker questions and from the comment and outreach partnership cards. Contact was made to those who completed Outreach Partnership Cards to coordinate further outreach which led to surveys distributed in quantity, presentations, leads for a community focus group (discussed below) and other activities. Organizational Mini-Summits Insight from several groups of who work with older adults and/or people with disabilities was important to collect via “Mini-Summits”.This contrasts with the geographically selected community focus groups and focused on directly interacting with older adults and people with disabilities. The Mini-Summits typically started with a brief overview of the project followed by a facilitated discussion asking the primary questions: 1) What are the mobility challenges of Solano older adults and people with disabilities and 2) What are ideas for solutions? Comments were recorded on flipcharts. Similar to the Mobility Summits materials were distributed including Information folders, Comment Cards and Outreach Partnership Cards. Below is a table of the organizations and when they were held. More details and the findings will be presented in Chapter 4 - Community Outreach and Findings. Table 2 Mini-Summits Date Organization November 2017 Paratransit Coordinating Council (PCC) December 2017 County of Solano/Health and Social Services (HSS) department staff (Older Adult Services and In Home Support Services) December 2017 Independent Living Resource Center (ILRC) December 2017 Senior Coalition April 2018 Solano Community Foundation (SCF) June 2018 Solano Mobility Call Center