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3. In general, is transportation (for example, distance and availability of a bus, car, or shuttle) a problem that makes it difficult for you or members of your household who depend upon you to receive health care? 4. Has a lack of transportation ever prevented you, or a member of your household that depends upon you, from receiving health care of any kind or from going to a health care facility? 5. Can you describe a health emergency that you had to deal with this past year? How did you arrange for transportation in this case? What would have made the trip easier? 6. Have you used emergency rooms in the past year? Explain why you went to the emergency room rather than some other facility? (E.g., no other facility available, convenience) 7. The County requires you to have your children immunized. Describe how you arranged to have this done. Did it pose a transportation problem for you? 8. Finally, what would you need to improve your ability to meet the transportation problems associated with your family's health needs? Can you make any recommendations regarding transportation to health care facilities? IV. Knowledge about Public Transportation (Use what has not been covered in the earlier discussion.) So far we have focused on your means of transportation – how you actually get from place to place. But another important aspect of transportation involves how you get information about using public transportation to travel to places you haven’t been before. A. Please give a concrete example of this situation – a time when you remember having to look for a job in an unfamiliar area, get to a new job or a new office or a childcare facility. Now tell us where you got information about the best way to get there. What were your best sources of information? Probe if not covered above: 1. Did you find and read bus schedules? Why or why not? 2. Did you call bus companies? 3. Ask family or neighbors about schedules? B. Has GAIN or CalWORKs provided you with public transportation information relevant to your finding a job or getting to an office or County services? 48
V. Bus Stories: A. How convenient, reliable, and safe is public transportation for you and your family? What do you like and dislike about public transportation? What are the biggest problems you've had with public transportation? Probe: Schedules inconvenient, confusing, not frequent enough Safety Bus stops not near home or work Too many transfers Trips take too long B. Some people in our groups have complained that bus schedules are complex and confusing. If you think this is the case tell us whether the problem is not getting understandable information about the schedules? Or is it because the schedules themselves are complex and confusing. VI. Car Stories: Your access to and experience with cars as a means of transportation. Some participants own cars. Others don't, yet they often know how to drive, have licenses, and manage to get around as much as possible with cars. Tell us about your ability to own, operate, and get access to reliable cars for your transportation needs. Probes: 1. Do you know how to drive and have a driver's license? 2. Do you own your own car? Is it reliable? 3. How many cars are there in your household? (What do you mean by "household?)? Are they regularly available for your use? 4. If you don’t own a car, what arrangements do you make to borrow or share a car, or use a car pool? Who can you rely on most for borrowing a car? 5. Everyone wants a car, but in your experience are there major barriers to owning, operating, and using cars for your daily transportation needs? VII. Adequacy of GAIN's current transportation support A. What kind and how much transportation support has GAIN given you? Did it cover your actual costs for gas or for public transportation associated with job search, work, or training for work? 49
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Page 17 and 18: TIME Okay, let’s start with the b
Page 19 and 20: Q4 Where did you go next? 1. WORK 2
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Page 25 and 26: Q23 How far is the closest bus stop
Page 27 and 28: Q32 How many children under age 18
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Page 31 and 32: Q47A What is the name of the after-
Page 33 and 34: TRAVHLTH The last time you traveled
Page 35 and 36: Q59 How often would you say you can
Page 37 and 38: Q67 How many days did you take the
Page 39 and 40: Q77 Would you say that you feel uns
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Appendix 8D. Health Care Travel a.
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Appendix 8D. Health Care Travel c.
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Appendix 8E. Childcare Travel a. Us
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Appendix 8E. Childcare Travel c. Us
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Appendix 8F. Car Access a. Have unl
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Appendix 8F. Car Access b. Have acc
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Appendix 9. Map Data Sources & Meth
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The estimated number of car trips u
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High Density Employment & Welfare-t
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that may experience increased trans
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esidential locations. Of these prov
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Appendix 11. Market Rate Analysis T
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Results The origin intersection, de
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Appendix 12. Overview of Transporta
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For Welfare Participants Who Work N
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