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Bloomington, Ind. – - What ideas do people with disabilities in Indiana have about transportation issues? IU’s Indiana Institute on Disability and Community, in conjunction with the Governor’s Council for People with Disabilities and Indiana Protection and Advocacy Services, is conducting a survey to find out the answer to this question!

Accessible and reliable transportation is an important issue for Indiana’s citizens with disabilities – transportation is a necessary support for seeking and maintaining employment, for accessing health care services, and for participating in community activities. The 2009 Disability Poll on Transportation asks Indiana citizens to identify how they view the current state of transportation in Indiana. There is also opportunity for them to provide opinions and ideas about how to improve transportation in their communities.

People with disabilities, their family members, and their advocates are invited to complete the survey so that their voices are heard when transportation issues are being addressed in their communities! The survey is available online at: http://www.thepollingplace.org. Print copies and alternative formats are available on request.

To request the survey in an alternative format, or for additional information, contact Dr. Vicki Pappas by phone at 1-800-825-4733 or e-mail: beheard@indiana.edu.

The Disability Poll is an annual project of the Indiana Institute on Disability and Community, the Governor’s Council for People with Disabilities, and Indiana Protection and Advocacy Services. The Poll’s purpose is to provide a place where the voices of people with disabilities, their family members, and their advocates can be heard. Each year, a specific topic of interest is selected. The Disability Poll is being conducted by staff from the Institute’s Center for Planning and Policy Studies.

About the Indiana Institute on Disability and Community at Indiana University: The Indiana Institute on Disability and Community (IIDC), Indiana’s University Center for Excellence on Disabilities, is committed to providing Hoosiers with disability-related information and services that touch the entire life span, from birth through older adulthood. Through its collaborative efforts with institutions of higher education, state and local government agencies, community service providers, persons with disabilities and their families, and advocacy organizations, Institute faculty and staff work to increase community capacity in disability through academic instruction, research, dissemination and training, and technical assistance.

About the Indiana’s Governor’s: The Indiana Governor’s Council is an independent state agency that facilitates change. Our mission is to promote public policy which leads to the independence, productivity and inclusion of people with disabilities in all aspects of society. This mission is accomplished through planning, evaluation, collaboration, education, research and advocacy. The Council is consumer-driven and is charged with determining how the service delivery system in both the public and private sectors can be most responsive to people with disabilities. The Council receives and disseminates federal funds to support innovative programs that are visionary, influence public policy, empower individuals and families and advocate systems change.

About the Indiana Protection and Advocacy Services (IPAS): IPAS was created in 1977 by state law (IC. 12-28-1-6 as amended) to protect and advocate the rights of people with disabilities and is Indiana’s federally designated Protection and Advocacy (P&A) system and client assistance program. It is an independent state agency, which receives no state funding and is independent from all service providers, as required by federal and state law.

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