Disability Related Transportation

We are dedicated to a single purpose: empowering veterans to lead high-quality lives with respect and dignity. We accomplish this by ensuring that veterans and their families can access the full range of benefits available to them; fighting for the interests of America’s injured heroes on Capitol Hill; and educating the public about the great sacrifices and needs of veterans transitioning back to civilian life.

This mission is carried forward by:
Providing free, professional assistance to veterans and their families in obtaining benefits and services earned through military service and provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and other agencies of government.
Providing outreach concerning its program services to the American people generally, and to disabled veterans and their families specifically.
Representing the interests of disabled veterans, their families, their widowed spouses, and their orphans before Congress, the White House and the Judicial Branch, as well as state and local government.
Extending DAV’s mission of hope into the communities where these veterans and their families live through a network of state-level Departments and local Chapters.
Providing a structure through which disabled veterans can express their compassion for their fellow veterans through a variety of volunteer programs.

Rio Rancho Dial-a-Ride is a weekday door-to-door transportation service for Rio Rancho residents 62 years of age and older, and for disabled adults 18 years of age and older. This service is for Rio Rancho residents only and you must be registered to use the service.

Sun Van, ABQ RIDE's paratransit service, provides accessible transportation to persons residing in or visiting the metro area whose impairment makes it impossible to ride the fixed-route service.

ABQ RIDE Paratransit provides origin-to-destination service to and from any address in Albuquerque and most of Bernalillo County. Door to Door service is also available upon request at the time of reservation.

The Rio Metro Regional Transit District operates Dial-a-Ride service to connect communities in Valencia County. Valencia County Dial-a-Ride can accommodate the general public, including seniors and people with disabilities. Dial-a-Ride can also bring you to a New Mexico Rail Runner Express station, which connects you to Albuquerque, Bernalillo, or Santa Fe. This service operates on weekdays only.

Available to anyone traveling throughout Valencia County, including Belen, Bosque Farms, Los Chavez, Los Lunas, Peralta, Rio Communities, and Tomé.

Santa Fe Ride ADA Complementary Paratransit Service serves the needs of customers who, because of a disability, are unable to use the Santa Fe Trails fixed-route system, and who meet the definition of "ADA paratransit eligible," as established by the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990.

Santa Fe Ride also provides transportation to adults 60 years of age and older, who are City of Santa Fe residents and reside in the city limits, to qualify residents must complete an application and receive a Santa Fe Ride picture id. A premium fare of $5.00 per trip is charged for seniors.

Dial-a-Ride is a paratransit service offered by the City of Las Cruces RoadRunner Transit. Dial-a-Ride provides origin to destination on-demand transportation service to qualified individuals with disabilities as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).

Fare is $1 for each one-way trip for qualified ADA individuals. Dial-a-Ride vehicles are wheelchair accessible and are operated by specially trained drivers. This information is also available as a brochure in English and Spanish.

Red Apple Transit is the public transit bus system for the City of Farmington.

Routes have also extended to the surrounding San Juan County areas, including the communities of Aztec, Bloomfield, and Kirtland.

To establish a Family Advocacy Center where adult and child victims of interpersonal violence and sexual assault have access to comprehensive, multi-disciplinary services. The focus of the Albuquerque Family Advocacy Center will be to decrease victim trauma and intimidation while providing supportive services in respectful and culturally appropriate ways.

Advantages of a Family Advocacy Center:
a. Victim friendly and victim safe environment (no suspects).
b. Reduces the investigation time for all agencies involved.
c. Reduces the number of interviews from as many as five to one per case, while at the same time increasing the quality of investigations.
d. Eliminates travel time for victims and significantly reduces travel for all service providers.
Improves coordination of multi-disciplinary teams: medical evaluation, forensic, interviews, law enforcement, child/adult protective service investigations, crisis counseling and prosecution.
e. Makes it possible to eliminate language and cultural barriers to service across all service systems.
f. Increases the number of convictions, guilty pleas and plea bargains through the appropriate prosecutorial divisions.

For after hours assistance:

FOR EMERGENCIES, PLEASE CALL 911
For Non-emergencies, please call (505) 243-2333
After hours, the Albuquerque Family Advocacy Center phone number (505) 243-2333 will be answered by victim advocates who can assist or make referrals to address your crisis situation. For basic or non-emergency contact with service providers please call back Monday through Friday, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm.

Region 9 Developmental Services Program provides comprehensive developmental/early intervention activities that benefit the families and children from birth through age three who have or may be at risk for developmental delays. Some options of this program include family counseling and education; health services; Child Find and screening services; assessment and evaluation services; special instruction provided by developmental specialists; nutritional consultation; occupational, physical, speech, and language therapy; transportation; family service coordination; and respite care services. An Individual Family Service Plan (IFSP) is developed for each child/family based upon determined needs.

New Mexico’s new Supports Waiver (SW) is a Home and Community Based Services (HCBS) waiver that is an option for individuals who are on the Developmental Disabilities (DD) Waiver Wait List. Supports Waiver services are intended to complement unpaid supports that are provided to individuals by family and others. A Supports Waiver participant will have the choice to access Support Waiver services through Agency Based Services or a Participant Directed Services.

Services:
Assistive Technology*
Behavior Support Consultation
Customized Community Supports-Group
Customized Community Supports-Individual
Employment Supports
Environmental Modifications*
Personal Care
Non-Medical Transportation
Respite
Vehicle Modifications*

Supports Waiver also has sites in Metro, Northwest, Northeast, Southwest, and Southeast area.
https://www.nmhealth.org/about/ddsd/pgsv/csw/staff/

Mi Via, which means “my path”, “my way” or “my road”, is designed to assist you in managing your own services and supports to live your best life. Mi Via is about choosing self-direction over your home and community-based services, support and goods within your approved plan and budget. The Mi Via Waiver program provides an array of living supports (for adults only), community membership supports, health and wellness supports and other related supports and goods.

Services include Consultant/Support Guide Services, Personal Plan Facilitation, Community Membership Supports, Living Supports, Health and Wellness Services, Other Related Goods and Supports, and Services for Children.

We provide advocacy, education, and direct services in support of transgender, gender nonconforming, nonbinary, and gender variant people and their families (services are offered to everyone and anybody regardless of their disability).

Services include:

• Harm reduction service
• Computer labs
• Hot lunches every day
• Long-term storage facility
• Mailing services (to receive mail and send)
• Case management & adult-case managers (who assist with name changing, finding and accessing medical providers, and other referrals)
• HIV rapid testing, community conversations about safe sex and reducing STD/HIV exposure
• Support groups
• Directory of other services

The mission of Rio Arriba County Senior Program is to encourage the Seniors’ of Rio Arriba County both well and frail to utilize our programs and services to enrich their lives by providing a coordinated system of opportunities to promote independent living, and overall well being with the primary focus on the rural and low-income minority.

Services include Congregate Meals, Home-delivered Meals, Transportation, Recreation, Adult Day Care and Personal Care Options.

United Access in Albuquerque, NM. We offer an extensive line of new and used wheelchair vans for sale, wheelchair lifts and handicap van conversions from BraunAbility, VMI and El Dorado. Mobility scooter lifts from Bruno, Harmar and Adapt Solutions are also available.

In addition to mobility lifts and wheelchair accessible vans in Albuquerque, we offer a full range of handicap driving aids including hand controls and transfer seating.

United Access also has wheelchair van rentals available for your short term needs, and we offer convenient pick up or delivery options for rental wheelchair vans in New Mexico.

NMSBVI Albuquerque offers statewide outreach and preschool/kindergarten education services.

Preschool/kindergarten is part of NMSBVI’s continuum of services offered to children throughout each stage of growth and development. The Preschool and Kindergarten Program serves children who are blind or visually impaired between the ages of 3 and 6 from Albuquerque and the surrounding areas. Students are required to have a diagnosed vision impairment that adversely impacts their capacity to learn in a more traditional classroom. All students are placed in the program by IEP committee decision held by the student’s resident public school system.

The academic program for Preschool and Kindergarten consists of literacy (print and Braille), math, concept development, socialization and all aspects of the expanded core curriculum for blindness. Students are encouraged to explore and to become familiar with their immediate environment; then expand outward to travel successfully into new and unfamiliar areas. Guided exploration and self-discovery are used to support learning at every level. All children are placed in the preschool programs by IEP team decision because they require daily support from a teacher of the visually impaired

The Preschool and Kindergarten Program offers additional services to students who qualify. These services include:
Classroom instruction from Teachers of the Visually Impaired
Orientation and Mobility instruction
Speech-Language Therapy
Physical Therapy
Occupation Therapy
Nursing
Social Work
Audiology
Transportation

NMSBVI’s residential services are available to New Mexico students who have an identified visual impairment that has been determined, through assessment, to impact their learning. Families and school districts should consider a placement when the student needs intensive instruction in skills related to visual impairment (ex: Braille, life skills, technology). In addition, a placement on the campus may be appropriate when a school district has been unsuccessful in hiring or replacing its teacher of the visually impaired; when a student is nearing the completion of their high school years and is not ready for their next life step; when a student is ready to move to their district’s middle or high school but the student’s team thinks the student could benefit from an ‘extra’ year to prepare for middle/high school. Often, districts contact NMSBVI when a high school student needs credit recovery.

(*Note: For more information about the residential campus, contact Julie Johnson at 575-439-4432 and for the summer, contact Ron Later at 575-439-4478).

The New Mexico Governor’s Commission on Disability (GCD) is committed to improving the quality of life of all New Mexicans with disabilities by addressing social integration, economic self-sufficiency, political resolve, physical and program accessibility, and full participation in the benefits of life and rights of all individuals.

GCD addresses physical, sensory, programmatic and attitudinal barriers to forward its mission. Such barriers may keep a person with a disability from enjoying the full aspects of community living.

GCD works to improve the quality of life of New Mexicans with disabilities through progressive systems advocacy.

GCD promotes community living and access to: employment opportunities; universal access to information; appropriate, available assistive technology; accessible education; accessible, affordable, universally designed housing (rental and single family); accessible, available transportation (rural and urban); available home and community-based services based on functional need; and, access to social and recreational settings.

GCD serves as liaison and advisor to the Governor and Legislature on disability issues.

GCD Programs include:
Physical Accessibility Unit
New Mexico Technology Assistance Program
Brain Injury Advisory Council
Technical Assistance and Training Unit

Provides free, non-emergency air travel for children and adults with serious medical conditions and other compelling needs. Services are available throughout the 13 western states, including Alaska and Hawaii.

Manufacturer and direct seller of wheelchair accessible vans and SUVs. Based in Michigan; selling directly for over 30 years. Provides videos, pictures, and at-home demos during buying process. Delivers vehicles to your home. In addition to a full line of SUVs, also offers "superwide" ramps for the Dodge Caravan (40") and Toyota Sienna (48").