Easy Lift Transportation
Mission
To fulfill our community’s need for specialized transportation to allow individuals and organizations access to essential programs and services.
Values
Easy Lift’s values of Teamwork, Respect, Integrity, Honesty, Professionalism and Trust describes how we interact with our passengers and their families, our community partners and each other.
Vision
Easy Lift’s vision is to become the community’s recognized advisor for specialized transportation needs.
Overview
Easy Lift Transportation provides a wide-variety of specialized transportation related services for the south Santa Barbara community.
Our primary services we provide is our Dial-a-Ride service where we continue to be the sole provider of Dial-a-Ride services in south Santa Barbara County. Last year alone, Easy Lift scheduled 74,492 rides for 1,873 passengers. Passengers use the service for a wide variety of purposes from medical appointments, work, school, grocery shopping, to quality of life activities such as church, recreation and entertainment. Easy Lift currently has 25 vehicles in our fleet including 22 wheelchair accessible vehicles. Our service area stretches from Winchester Canyon to Carpinteria, and we operate 363 days per year.
In addition, Easy Lift is truly a special community resource! As a nonprofit organization, Easy Lift is unique in the paratransit industry. Most similar organizations in the U.S. rely exclusively on government funding, while just half of our Dial-a-Ride funding is from the government. Because of our nonprofit status, Easy Lift can leverage those funds with additional fundraising activities which results in our ability to serve twice as many people.
As our nation grows older and those with physical challenges assert greater independence, the need for service is continually on the rise. Because transportation provides the independence vital to maintaining quality of life, Easy Lift will continually strive to expand its service to meet the unmet and growing needs of our community.