Education and Outreach
King County Mobility CoalitionEducation and Outreach
About Education and Outreach
The education and outreach goals of the King County Mobility Coalition are to inform riders, human service providers, stakeholders, and community members about changes to services, new services, and how individuals and organizations will be impacted. The KCMC achieves these goals by holding quarterly field trips around the county. Input for field trip topics is gathered through feedback from the coalition and past field trip attendees.
Goals
- Improve, clarify, and increase information about new or changing transportation options in King County.
- Identify available information and tools to reduce disparities in underserved communities.
- Support outreach efforts of transit agencies or programs to help increase mobility for transit-dependent populations.
Field Trip Series 2020/2021 is on hold as a result of COVID-19.
Field Trip Series 2019
Once per quarter, we gather invested individuals to explore mobility around the county. We cull lists of stakeholders who have previously attended field trips, expressed interest in attending, and new stakeholders who might benefit from learning about the service. We bring experts from the service or transit agency who can speak to the nuanced details of what might be new or changing to new riders. The field trips are free and open to the public.
- December 13, 2019 - North Eastside Mobility Project Bus Ride
- September 6, 2019 - Sound Transit: Connect 2020
- June 7, 2019 – King County Metro’s First Mile / Last Mile Solutions | Via to Transit and Ride 2
Field Trip Series 2017 – 2018
Please note the details from the event notes may be out of date. Please contact the service provider for the latest information. An evaluation report of this series can be found here.
- King County Metro's Community Van Program (December 14th, 2018)
- Wallingford Senior Center's Van Program (November 9th, 2018)
- Muckleshoot Tribal Transportation (October 12th, 2018)
- Harborview Hospital’s Transportation Resource Center and Access Evaluations Center (September 14th, 2018)
- Eastside Friends of Seniors Volunteer Driver Program (August 10th, 2018)
- First Transit's Travel Training Program (July 13th, 2018)
- Community Transit's SWIFT Bus Rapid Transit (June 8th, 2018)
- Catholic Community Services' Volunteer Transportation Program (May 11th, 2018)
- SDOT's Emergency Operations (April 13th, 2018)
- Metro Rideshare Operations (March 9th, 2018)
- Metro Taxi Scrip (February 9th, 2018)
- Sound Generations (January 12th, 2018)
- Demand Area Response Transit (DART) (December 8th, 2017)
- Hopelink Medicaid Transportation (November 3rd, 2017)
- Northshore Senior Center (October 13th, 2017)
- Snoqualmie Valley Transportation (September 8th, 2017)
Other E&O Resources
From 2016 to 2018, the Education and Outreach Committee held regular meetings to discuss new service changes, plan field trips, and convene on mobility information sharing. These meeting notes can be found on on the KCMobility Resources Page
by using the date filters to identify Education and Outreach Committee Meeting Notes.
KCMC’s Education and Outreach Subcommittee has produced numerous helpful resources and reports to support KCMC’s mission. You can view these and other helpful outreach tools through the KCMobility Resources page.
Join Today
Contact us by calling (425) 943-6760, or send an email to mobility@hopelink.org, or sign up for the next field trip or provide feedback on this initiative.
