The ACOMI community wheels program resolves some of the transportation needs in running program within the community by providing access to a community van for the transportation of program participants to/from program activities. The program has these goals:

 (a) Short-Term – Families, students and community members have appropriate, accessible, convenient and safe means of transportation to fully participate in programs and activities such as after-school programs, community events and field trips.
(b) Medium-Term – Reduce the transportation barriers, cost strain on families, students and community members, to enable access to education, decrease school drop-out rate, increase sense of safety, and to facilitate student safe transportation when traveling through inner-city core areas. This will provide our community members with a vital and necessary transportation asset to facilitate student’s and community member’s safe transportation when accessing essential services at ACOMI.
(c)  Long-Term – Increase accessibility of transportation by families, students, community members, volunteers and our staff to improve safe transportation practices, reduce transportation costs; increase sense of safety; improve transportation service; and improve accessibility to ACOMI’s programs and activities.

A 15 passenger van is used by families, students and community members who access ACOMI programs and activities such as bi-weekly Winnipeg Harvest food bank pick up, children drop-in programs, after-school programs, youth mentoring programs, community activities, community field trips, site visits and general community use. ACOMI Staff and volunteers use the vehicle for transporting program participants, program shopping, transporting equipment (drums, audio-systems, educational materials, cultural artifacts and crafts, etc.) and other service-related activities. The van facilitates the day-to-day activities such as our healthy snacks program pickups; reducing the need for staff and volunteers to use personal vehicles during work/volunteering hours. The van promotes flexibility and accessibility among the many grass-roots ethno-cultural communities affiliated to ACOMI that are spread across the city. The van is at the core of all the programs, activities and services we deliver. This increases the capacity of our programs, especially our children and youth mentoring projects hosted in different community schools across the city, and it also enhances the quality and accessibility of our programming.