LOCAL
Transportation, Public Accessible
Programs that provide door-to-door (or curb-to-curb) transportation for purposes of shopping, banking, social events, medical appointments, getting to and from work, and similar activities for people with disabilities and older adults who need accommodations and are unable to utilize other available means of transportation. Some, but not all, vehicles used for this purpose are equipped with wheelchair lifts. Also includes disability parking placards and information.
Accessible Transportation
Transportation, Public Fixed Route
Public local and regional transportation services including buses, rail, shuttles, and trolleys, that follow a fixed route schedule.
Regional Bus Service
Transportation, Public Long-Distance
Long-distance transportation provided by public providers is generally offered between two separate metropolitan areas or rural areas of equivalent distance to a separate metropolitan area. Service may also operate in an interurban network or to a specific destination on a fixed route. Service is usually scheduled, but may operate at fixed intervals. Service may be one-way, open-ended, or round-trip. Unlimited trips may be available using a pass.
Virginia Railway Express (VRE), Commuter Train Services
Transportation, Public Paratransit and Flexible Schedule
Programs that provide flexibly scheduled transportation for community residents who are unable to use the fixed-route public transportation system. The services may be used by the general public or limited to special populations such as older adults and individuals with a disability.
Route Deviation, FXBGO!
Mobility Options
Transportation, Ride App Service Networks
Companies such as Uber or Lyft (formally known as "Transportation Network Company Rides" or TNCs), which provide prearranged ground transportation that is booked via an app or a website and connects passengers with drivers who use their own, noncommercial vehicles. Some companies may offer a variant arrangement where the passenger uses an online marketplace to retain a driver who drives the customer's own car for them; and a limited number offer accessible transportation options such as wheelchair accessible vehicles equipped with ramps or hydraulic lifts or door-to-door support for riders who may need help with wheelchairs, walkers and scooters or who have a service animal.
Taxi Alternative Through Smart Phone App, Washington DC
Transportation, Ride Share and Commuting
Programs that make arrangements for people to travel together in private automobiles and/or vans during busy commuting hours or which provide a central telephone number for people to use to identify others who are commuting to and from the same general area with whom they might share. Vehicle options include vanpools and carpools. Vanpools may be publicly or employer-operated or organized by an individual who owns or leases a van; the drivers are generally participating as commuters themselves, so are not paid. Also includes programs that provide other commuter services such as emergency commuter transportation, parking information, and more.
Ridesharing
OmniRide Commuter Bus and OmniRide Express
Virginia Commuter Passenger Rail Service
Commuter-Oriented Rail Passenger Service
Transportation, Taxi Services
Organizations that provide door-to-door automobile transportation for people who are willing to pay an established fare that is usually recorded by a meter. In some communities, the organization coordinating paratransit services contracts with taxi companies to provide transportation.
Community Transportation
Travel Training for Older Adults and People With Disabilities
Programs that provide comprehensive, intensive instruction that teaches older adults or individuals with disabilities how to travel independently and safely using accessible public transportation. Skills include boarding the correct bus or subway, recognizing and disembarking at the correct destination, following directions, recognizing and avoiding dangerous situations and obstacles, handling unexpected situations such as re-routed buses or subways or getting lost, using specialized equipment or devices, and recognizing the need for assistance and requesting help from appropriate sources.
Travel Training, People with Disabilities and Older Adults
Vehicle Adaptation Services
Programs that pay for or provide the labor and/or equipment to adapt vehicles owned by people with disabilities allowing them to operate the vehicles or ride in them as passengers. Adaptations can include ramps or wheelchair lifts; primary systems such as modified seats or steering, signaling, gear shift and braking controls; and/or secondary systems such as car door openers, car door reachers, gas cap openers, seating restraints, specially designed rear view mirrors and other accessories.
Vehicle Modification
Vision Health
Programs provided by optometrists, ophthalmologists, occupational and physical therapists including vision exams, treatment for eye disease, provision of glasses, diagnosis of cataracts, glaucoma and macular degeneration. Services also include low vision and vision loss therapies.
Eye Health, Aquia Office, Stafford
Eye Health, Falmouth Office, Fredericksburg
Ophthalmologist, Parkway Office, Fredericksburg
Optometrist, Route 3 Office, Fredericksburg
Ophthalmologist
Mobile Sight and Hearing Van, Northern Virginia
Vision Impaired, Fredericksburg Area Chapter
Eye Exams and Eye Care
Eye Surgery, Cataract and LASIK
Vocational Rehabilitation
Programs that assist people with disabilities, get employment training and experience. Services may include vocational evaluation, work adjustment, work experience, training in marketable skills and placement in competitive employment or a supported work environment.
Vocational Services
Employment and Vocational Rehabilitation, Fredericksburg Office
Vocational Training
Job Help Center, Fredericksburg
Job Help Center, North Stafford Job Help Center
Volunteer Opportunities
Community organizations that are actively seeking individuals with the requisite knowledge, skills and experience who are willing to offer their services and work on a full or part-time basis without remuneration on projects or in positions that benefit the organization itself or the people it serves.
Volunteering, Brain Injury
Volunteer Opportunities
Volunteer Help for Domestic Violence Program
Volunteer Opportunities
Volunteer Program
Volunteering, Richmond
Volunteer Opportunities
Senior Visitors Program
Volunteer Opportunities
Weight Management
Programs that utilize one or a variety of techniques including nutrition education, exercise, special diets, behavior modification, medication or surgery to help individuals who have a weight control problem gain or lose weight to achieve a more healthful body weight and develop a lifestyle that allows them to maintain a weight.
Weight Control, Fredericksburg
Wellness and Alternative Health
Programs that promote a healthy state of well being including health education, exercise, diet, medical care and alternative therapies.
Disease Prevention
Public Information Education
Meditation
STATEWIDE AND NATIONWIDE
Group Home Residential
Programs that are provided in a DBHDS licensed home with staff available 24 hours per day to provide skill building and other direct supports as necessary to enable each person to reside successfully in the community. ( Group Home Residential includes the Community Living Waivers.)
Group Home Residential Services
Adult Group Home
ID/DD Group Home
Residential Group Home
Group Home Residential - Supportive Housing
Environmental Modifications
Programs offer physical adaptations to the individual's primary home or primary vehicle that are necessary to ensure the health and welfare of the individual or enable the individual to function with greater independence. (Environmental Modifications includes the Building Independence, Family & Individual Supports and Community Living Waivers.)
Home Security Services - Medical Alert
Personal Emergency Response System (PERS)
Program is a service that monitors the individual's safety in his/her home, and provides access to emergency assistance for medical or environmental emergencies through the provision of a two-way voice communication system that dials a 24-hour response or monitoring center upon activation and via the individual's home telephone system. (Personal Emergency Response System (PERS)s include the Building Independence, Family & Individual Supports and Community Living Waivers.)
Personal Response System
Group Supported Employment
Programs for continuous employment-related support provided to a group of individuals working a competitive job where persons without disabilities are employed. (Group Supported Employment includes the Building Independence, Family & Individual Supports and Community Living Waivers.)
Group Option Supported Employment
Individual Supported Employment
Programs that are provided one-on-one by a job coach who offers training and support in a competitive job where persons without disabilities are employed. Individual Supported Employment includes the Building Independence, Family & Individual Supports and Community Living Waiver.)
Individual Supported Employment
Sponsored Residential Services
Programs that take place in a DBHDS licensed family home where the homeowners are paid caregivers ("sponsors") who provide support as necessary so that the individual can reside successfully in the home and community. (Sponsored Residential Services include the Community Living Waiver.)
DD Waiver Sponsored Residential
Your Local Community Services Board
Fredericksburg, VA, 22401
Your Local Centers For Independent Living
Fredericksburg, VA, 22401
Your Local Dept. of Social Services
Spotsylvania, VA, 22553
Your Local Health Dept.
Spotsylvania, VA, 22553