Get a ride to your dine-in meal site
If you're 60 or older, you can choose from a range of transportation services to take you to your meal site. These include:
- The County's Mobility Management Program (MMP);
- Community-based transportation services.
Mobility Management Program (MMP)
This program offers free transportation services to qualified participants of the Senior Nutrition Program so they can reach their meal sites and get together with others.
| Transportation benefit | Who qualifies? |
|---|---|
| Monthly bus passes | Program participants aged 65 or older who regularly dine at a SNP meal site. |
| Gas cards | Program participants aged 60 or older who regularly dine at a SNP meal site. |
| Paratransit rides | 60 or older with disabilities and unable to use bus and light rail transit service due to physical, visual, or cognitive disabilities. To use paratransit rides, you must be cleared by the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority. |
Am I eligible?
To qualify for MMP, you must:
- Live in the County of Santa Clara;
- Complete a new Senior Nutrition Program (SNP) registration form;
- Meet the low-income threshold based on the Elder Economic Security Index (EESI) for the County of Santa Clara;
- Require transit services in order to participate in the meal program.
Ready to apply?
If you qualify for MMP and want to apply, complete the Senior Nutrition Mobility Management application and bring it to the dine-in site manager for approval.
For more information on MMP, visit a dining program and speak with a SNP site manager.
Community transport services
Below are more ride services for older adults around the County.
| organization and areas served | phone number |
|---|---|
| Avenidas Door-to-Door North County | (650) 289-5411 |
| Heart of the Valley Services for Seniors West Santa Clara Valley | (408) 241-1571 |
| Portuguese Organization for Social Services and Opportunities (POSSO) Escort Program | (408) 293-0877 |
| Ride Peninsula Volunteers Inc. (PVI) Mountain View, Palo Alto, Santa Clara and Sunnyvale | (650) 272-5006 |
| RoadRunners Transportation 10-mile radius of El Camino Health Hospital in Mountain View | (650) 940-7016 |
| RYDE Program Services Residents of Los Gatos, Saratoga, Monte Sereno, San Jose | (408) 892-9739 |
| RYDE Program Services Residents of Cupertino, Campbell, San Jose (95129, 95130) | (669) 220-0831 |
| Sourcewise Transit Service South County | (408) 762-7362 |