More Than a Ride. It's a Connection to What's Next
Rotary Connection
What is the Rotary Connection?
The Rotary Connection is a community-centered transportation initiative that removes barriers to accessing care by providing reliable, compassionate transportation. In collaboration with community partners, it helps ensure individuals do not miss opportunities for safety, stability, or recovery due to a lack of mobility.
Each ride is supported by a driver with lived experience and a dedicated Navigator who connects individuals to resources, relocation options, and ongoing care. Through outreach efforts, the program also meets people where they are by offering essential items and immediate support, always grounded in dignity, compassion, and connection.
A Bridge to Essential Services
Featured as part of the services highlighted through Fellowship Recovery Community Organization, the Rotary Connection expands access to care by offering free, compassionate transportation for individuals experiencing housing instability or hardship across Broward County. This service helps individuals reach essential supports with dignity, consistency, and care.
Each ride connects people to opportunities for stability, including:
Every ride is a step forward, creating access, restoring connection, and opening pathways to long-term stability.
- Housing and Shelters
- Meal programs
- Medical and Behavioral Healthcare
- Legal, Family, and Identification Services
Every ride is a step forward, creating access, restoring connection, and opening pathways to long-term stability.
Access Changes Everything
Reliable transportation can be the turning point between feeling stuck and finding a way forward. The Rotary Connection exists to close that gap, connecting individuals to real opportunities for recovery, stability, and independence.
We see it every day. When transportation is no longer a barrier, people are able to show up for care, reconnect with support systems, and take meaningful steps toward a better future. Something as simple as a ride can restore a sense of dignity, hope, and possibility.
Because Getting There Matters
A Ride That Leads Somewhere
The Rotary Connection bus runs on a consistent schedule throughout Broward County, providing reliable access to key community service locations.
These stops are intentionally selected to connect individuals with the support they need most, including:
- Recovery support and treatment providers
- Healthcare centers
- Government and legal services
- Housing and supportive service agencies
- Recovery Community Centers
- Family support services
* Rides are always free and designed to be welcoming, accessible, and supportive, making it easier for individuals to reach the resources that can help them move toward stability, recovery, and long-term well-being.
Part of the Recovery Journey
The Rotary Connection plays a critical role in supporting continuity of care across the recovery journey, helping individuals move between essential stages of support, including respite, recovery residences, and recovery community centers.
Transportation helps connect each step, ensuring individuals are able to access the services and environments that support their progress at every stage. From a safe place to land to long-term community and independence, no one should be left behind because they lack a way to get there.