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Approved 9/20/2017 474 Transit Week," which Lisa Berley will discuss. In summary, there will be a transit academy leading up to the Week, to 475 educate people on how the bus systems work in Orange County. Many groups have provided assistance, including 476 the Healthy Carolinians. 477 478 Lisa Berley spoke about Try Transit Week. The week focuses on encouraging people to ride the bus, like David did, 479 and as an incentive, the ride will be free of charge. In addition to Orange County Public Transit, Chapel Hill Transit, 480 and Go Triangle will be the participating transit departments. The Healthy Carolinians, a group out of the County 481 Health Department has a subcommittee called "Access to Care" which assists people in accessing health care in the 482 County and region at large. This subcommittee is working with Ms. Berley to hold the first ever Transit Academy in 483 both Hillsborough and Chapel Hill (8:00am — noon) two weeks before the Try Transit Week. The concept is to offer 484 training to care managers and social workers in the medical field, in schools, and in non - profits, to get the low -down 485 on what all this transit is that we have in this county. The academy will include presentations, breakout sessions on 486 who qualifies for door -to -door services and how to fill -out the right forms, how to work well with people who have 487 limited English proficiency or English is not their first language, and how to go about setting -up a kiosk of relevant 488 transportation information in your service agency that would be most useful to clients. Throughout the Academy, Staff 489 will be encouraged to get their clients to use transit during Try Transit Week in a variety of ways. During this week, 490 there will be at least 3 places (i.e. Walmart in Hillsborough which also has a bus stop out in front) to talk -up the week 491 with information and a staff person at the table to answer questions. 492 493 Alex Castro added to the list of Try Transit Week publicity locations — gatherings at The Grange (meets the first 494 Tuesday of the month) and Table Top (last Friday in September) and other places such as these. 495 496 David Laudicina said Hog Day is coming up on September 151h, a great event for publicize Try Transit Week. 497 498 Alex Castro said that the updates in transit in the County are significant and not enough people know about them, 499 especially not the seniors. Seniors are the ones who would really make use out of this event and of the services. He 500 also suggested the Seymour Center and Passmore Center as good locations for advertising Try Transit Week. 501 502 Ted Triebel asked about advertising in the News of Orange. What media outlets does the department use? 503 504 Lisa Berley said that they will advertise in the News of Orange and that Southern Neighbor (monthly publication) did 505 a piece on transportation for them, but they are still looking into other media outlets. 506 507 Art Menius suggested getting an interview with WCHL, which would put them on for the afternoon news. 508 509 Janice Tyler said that all media and communications go through Todd McGee (Orange County Community Relations 510 Director) for this event. 511 512 Heidi Perry asked where the Transit Academy in Chapel Hill will be located. 513 514 Janice Tyler said that the Academy would be at the Seymour Center. 515 516 Heidi Perry asked if healthcare facilities know about this. 517 518 Lisa Berley explained that the list of contacts (inclusive of care managers and others) have been generated by the 519 subcommittee and by Ms. Berley herself has been collecting contacts for over a year- and -a -half for an event like this. 520 All of these contacts will receive a "Save the Date" and an invitation via email. 521 522 Jenn Sykes said that she works with the head of UNC Care Management and has connections with Duke's Care 523 Management and will work with them on getting participants to the event. She has already suggested that they reach 524 out to Lisa Berley and the team for more information on this event. 525 526 Lisa Berley said that she would definitely talk to Jenn more about this. 10