GRIT’s Community Assessment Online
Welcome to Grit’s Community Assessment Online!
This tool will help your agency to assess its ability
to manage a voucher system.
A voucher system assists people
living in rural communities to obtain and pay for transportation. A person
with a disability is issued a voucher (paper check or ticket) by a voucher
site. The consumer finds a driver with a vehicle to give him or her a ride.
The individual pays the driver with the voucher. The driver sends the voucher
to a voucher site along with documentation. The driver is reimbursed
by the voucher site at an agreed-upon rate. The site is reimbursed
by one or more funding agencies. Any appropriate organization may
become a GRIT voucher site.
Begin with Part One (click on the box below) to get
background information and make informed decisions about voucher systems.
Go on to Part Two to obtain an assessment profile for
your specific agency or community. You may need to
gather some information before you can complete Part Two. The program
will advise you as to what information is needed and why.
Remember: This site cannot answer all of
the questions you may have about every set of circumstances. The program
will advise you about information or data that you may need to gather to
complete the assessment and make an informed decision.
Preparation of this program was supported,
in part, by a grant from the U.S. Department of Education (H324M000086)
and a grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (90DN019901)
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