Write a commentARISE Child and Family Services (ARISE) graduated the first participant of its newly created travel training class, Learning to Ride the Bus.
This one-hour class helps individuals with disabilities learn about the bus system in Oswego County. Scott Pecoy, ARISE Peer Advocate/Housing Advocate describes the benefits of the class, “learning how to ride the bus gives people that may not have a car or other means of transportation access to resources. They can travel to where they need to go and participate in their community.” During the class, participants learn the bus schedule, bus routes, where they can get on the bus, how to request a stop, and how to get off the bus. Participants have the opportunity to ride the bus, and the class ends at the bus garage where participants can fill out an application for their reduced fare bus pass before heading back to the ARISE offices. Scott (pictured above) is the first graduate of this new program.
ARISE Oswego will hold another class in the spring. Anyone interested in taking the class should contact Scott Pecoy, ARISE Peer Advocate/Housing Advocate at 315-342-4088, or specoy@ariseinc.org.
### About ARISE
ARISE is a non-profit Independent Living Center run by and for people with disabilities. The organization has been providing advocacy and services since 1979, and each year ARISE works with approximately 7,000 people of all ages who have all types of disabilities. ARISE offers services in Onondaga, Oswego, Madison, Cayuga, and Seneca counties and also operates ARISE at the Farm, a 77-acre recreational facility in Chittenango, NY, and ARISE & Ski at Toggenburg Winter Sports Center in Fabius, NY.
