{"id":141737,"date":"2026-08-24T08:09:51","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T14:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/?p=141737"},"modified":"2026-08-24T08:09:51","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T14:09:51","slug":"september-monthly-service-offering-drive-a-senior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/september-monthly-service-offering-drive-a-senior\/","title":{"rendered":"September Monthly Service Offering &#8211; Drive a Senior"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Drive a Senior &#8211; Building Relationships One Ride at a Time<\/strong><br><br>Drive a Senior enables older adults to live independently, avoid social isolation and age in place by providing free, volunteer-based<br>transportation and other support services to senior adults in Austin since 1985, including:<br><br>&#8211; Daily rides to medical appointments and errands,<br>&#8211; Weekly rides to HEB for groceries,<br>&#8211; Monthly rides for social outings and events,<br>&#8211; As needed handyman services, tech assistance, and social visits.<br><br>Our mission is transportation, but our impact is relationships. Our volunteer-based rides come with care, empathy, and inclusion. Our clients are treated like family and build meaningful relationships with our staff and volunteers.<br><br>First UU is a founding congregation of Drive a Senior, originally called North Central Caregivers. Our congregation formerly contributed annually to its work and has provided many volunteers since its inception in 1985.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drive a Senior &#8211; Building Relationships One Ride at a Time Drive a Senior enables older adults to live independently, avoid social isolation and age in place by providing free, volunteer-basedtransportation and other support services to senior adults in Austin since 1985, including: &#8211; Daily rides to medical appointments and errands,&#8211; Weekly rides to HEB&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141737"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141741,"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141737\/revisions\/141741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}