Project Access workshop offered
How to comply with the Americans With Disabilities Act is the topic of a workshop being offered on campus April 28.
The three-hour workshop, which begins at 2 p.m. in the cafeteria, is being conducted by the Illinois Theatre Association Theatre Access Coalition Chairman Enice Joffe.
IVCC Theatre Director Dr. David Kuester said, "Though Project Access is geared toward performance and art exhibit spaces, it really deals with the fundamentals of working with any special population needs group, and that affects all of us."
The program will provide low methods for increasing access to an organization’s facilities and services.
The training is intended to enable workshop participants to more readily identify individuals with disabilities, to be more comfortable in approaching and interacting with individuals with disabilities, and to be responsive in case of an emergency, he said.
How to conduct activities to accommodate an entire audience will also be addressed, Kuester said.
The Americans With Disabilities Act requires public programs to be accessible.
The Illinois Theatre Association’s Access Theatre Coalition is funded by the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency which provides grants and technical assistance to community arts agencies, individual creative artists and non-profit organizations which present arts programming and works to ensure that all citizens have access to Illinois’ cultural resources.
April 8, 1999 the Apache