On March 18, ITNAmerica, in collaboration with the National Center on Senior Transportation (NCST), will be holding an all day event at the Aging in America conference in Chicago which is being held from March 15-19 at the Hyatt Regency Chicago Hotel.

ITNAmerica’s program is called “Social Enterprise and Senior Mobility,” and will feature presentations by various leaders in the transportation field discussing senior mobility and how to collaborate with individual communities to build sustainable senior transportation services. Familiar presenters include ITNAmerica President and Executive Director, Katherine Freund and Executive Director of ITNBluegrass™, Gale Reece. Their presentations will provide an overview of ITN^®s efforts to establish a national network of transportation services for older adults, modeled after the Independent Transportation Network^®.

Other presenters include Fran Carlin-Rogers, Senior Transportation Consultant of Carlin-Rogers Consulting LLC; Bonnie Dobbs, Director of The Medically At-Risk Driver Center at the University of Alberta; Joyce Gallagher, Executive Director of the Chicago Department of Family and Support Services; and Laura Robbins, Program Executive at Atlantic Philanthropies, among others.

The conference includes over 600 workshops and 200 poster sessions throughout the five days, and all plan to address what’s new, what’s important, what works and how it can be done in individual communities. Aging in America 2010 is sponsored by the National Council on Aging and the American Society on Aging and is held annually every spring.