Success Stories by Topic: Transportation

• Ozark Action Inc. Vehicle Repair Loan Program
  September 2009
  The program uses Community Services Block Grant funds to provide loans of up to $500 for vehicle repair. Participants are required to repay the no-interest loan within one year.
• Washington County Rural Health Outreach Grant Program
  May 2009
  The goal of the project was to enable residents to access health care and education services—either by transporting residents to locations where these services were offered or by providing these services closer to where the county’s most rural residents live via clinics and outreach events.
• Health Connection for School Success
  May 2009
  Health Connection for School Success (HCFSS) was established to address the fact that children’s health not only is an important measure of community well-being but also is strongly associated with how well children perform in school.
• Tri-Valley Opportunity Council
  July 2008
  In 2002, Tri-Valley Opportunity Council assumed responsibility for coordinating a public transportation and volunteer driver system to serve a sparsely populated, very rural five-county area covering 6,500 miles in northwest Minnesota.
• Angel Flight West: A Higher Level of Kindness
  June 2007
  Angel Flight West provides free, private air transportation for people with medical and other needs.
• The CEI: Project Outreach
  January 2007
  This project aims to improve many aspects of healthcare in St. Mary and surrounding Parishes.
• Rural Health Initiative (Stevens Point, Wisconsin)
  July 2005
  This project produced several innovative solutions to the lack of affordable dental care in the area by providing dental health services to low-income residents including: outreach, transportation to dental appointments using Head Start buses, and preventative fluoride supplements.
• Harney County Rural Health Outreach Program
  July 2005
  Consortium partner members designed the Harney County Rural Health Outreach Program to expand and enhance an established mobile primary clinic through patient education, increased trips per month, and increased patient visits per trip through a dial-a-ride program.
• Integrated Primary and Behavioral Health Care
  July 2005
  This project provided case management, integrated behavioral health care, risk reduction services, provider retention initiatives, and transportation for targeted low-income and working-poor families.