Description of Seminars and Trainings Available
Staff training is an often neglected but essential piece of your Access Program! Let us help you. Everyone's Invited is available to provide event-accessibility training for your team. We can customize the presentations to fit the time frame you have available and the specifics of your event. Contact us to talk about your needs and how we can help. While on-site trainings are better we can also do most trainings via phone or videoconference.
"Everyone's Invited to Your Festival" - We help producers, department directors, key staff and volunteers, learn the basics of how to make your event accessible to everyone.
"Service Animal Screening" - Confused and frustrated by the service animal laws? You are not alone. Learn this system, developed by Everyone's Invited, which helps protect your patrons, staff, other animals, and your festival from pets presented as service animals.
"What Your Security Team Needs to Know about Accessibility" - The Security Team covers many key areas at your event, traffic direction, tollbooth, parking, gates, stages etc. We train your team what they need to know to accommodate people with disabilities.
"Accessibility for Vendors and Sponsors" - We help these groups understand what they need to do to be accessible to all, therefor helping your event be more compliant with the law.
"Access Awareness" - Help your team understand why it is important to pay attention to accessibility, be more informed about what it takes for people with disabilities to attend events, learn about interacting with people who have various types of disabilities.
"People-First or Identity-First Language?" - We can help you get up to date with the terminology currently being used to refer to people with disabilities. This course is for you and your team if you are still using the terms handicapped, special, normal, challenged, differently-abled, wheelchair-bound, impaired, and various other terms.
"Team-Specific Training" - During the days immediately prior to the event, sometimes even the morning of the event before the gates open, we provide on-site training for short-term staff. Traffic direction, Parking, Gates, Security, Mounted Patrol, Dispatch, Vendors, Sponsors, Info Booth, Volunteers, Access, and other teams need instructions on how to accommodate people with disabilities.
Previous Seminars
Accessibility seminars provided by Everyone's Invited include:
- "Accessibility Awareness" - All staff, Berkshire South Regional Community Center, Great Barrington, Massachusetts
- "Accommodating Interns with Disabilities" - Supervisory staff, Berkshire South Regional Community Center, Great Barrington, Massachusetts
- "Service Animal Screening" - Police Department and Animal Control personnel, City of Savannah, Georgia
- "Everyone’s Invited to ACM Party for a Cause" - Academy of Country Music event staff, Las Vegas, Nevada
- "Service Animal Screening" - Academy of Country Music event staff, Las Vegas, Nevada
- "Everyone’s Invited to Glow Santa Monica" - Event Staff, City of Santa Monica, California
- "Event Accessibility" - CID Entertainment staff, New York City, New York
- "Accessibility Awareness" - All staff, Berkshire South Regional Community Center, Great Barrington, Massachusetts
- "Accommodating Interns with Disabilities" - Supervisory staff, Berkshire South Regional Community Center, Great Barrington, Massachusetts
- "Service Animal Screening" - Police Department and Animal Control personnel, City of Savannah, Georgia
- "Everyone's Invited to ACM Party for a Cause" - Academy of Country Music event staff, Las Vegas, Nevada
- "Service Animal Screening" - Academy of Country Music event staff, Las Vegas, Nevada
- "Everyone's Invited to Glow Santa Monica" - Event Staff, City of Santa Monica, California
- "Event Accessibility" - CID Entertainment staff, New York City, New York
- "Accessible Festivals – Including People with Disabilities," International Music Festival Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada.
- "Accessible Festivals – Including People with Disabilities," International Festivals and Events Association, Webinar.
- "Accessible Events: Inviting Patrons with Disabilities,"Arts Council of New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana.
- "Accessible Festivals,"Carolina Showfest, Charlotte, North Carolina.
- "Accessible Festivals; Including People with Disabilities," 51st Annual International Festival and Events Association (IFEA) Convention & Expo, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
- "Chemical Sensitivity: What's the big stink?"Berkshire Community College, Great Barrington, Massachusetts.
- "Welcoming Customers with Disabilities; Access Makes Good Business Sense," The Greylock Federal Credit Union and The Office of Cultural Development, City of Pittsfield, The Colonial Theater, Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
- "Planning an Accessible Event," The Greylock Federal Credit Union and The Office of Cultural Development, City of Pittsfield, The Colonial Theater, Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
- "Accessible Festivals - Make Your Outdoor Event Accessible to People with Disabilities," National Institute on Recreation Inclusion (NIRI), presented by The National Recreation and Park Association, Groton, Connecticut.
- "How to Make Your Event Accessible To People with Disabilities; Attract New Audience Members, and Comply With the Law," Southern Arts Federation's Performing Arts Exchange, Memphis, Tennessee.
- "How to Make Your Event Accessible to People with Disabilities," Berkshire Community College, Great Barrington, Massachusetts, in the Berkshires.
- "Accommodating People with Disabilities at Business Events," Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
- "Making Your Event Accessible, A Guide for Complying with the Americans with Disabilities Act," National Association of Independent Artists Annual Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana.
- Laura has also conducted countless in-house training sessions for staff, vendors, and volunteers. These trainings can range from half-day Access Awareness trainings to 10 minute, on-site, job specific trainings, and everything in between.
What Participants Say
- "Excellent, Excellent!"
- "Great content; obvious passion of speaker."
- "Thank you! Enjoyed very much!"
- "Good pace, interesting subject matter presented in a well organized manner."
- "Excellent information... well organized and very positive!"
- "This was really wonderfully done."
- "The information was shared in an expedited manner - group discussion made it more interesting and is always fun - also - very practical information was given."
- "You've educated us and encouraged us to "think" about accessibility/universal access which will result in what's best for us all - our business and our personal lives."
- "It was very informative - promoted much thought on the subject."
- "Extremely useful."
- "Lots of interaction. Great information. Very practical."
- "Specific situations & possible solutions."
- "Well prepared and organized. Involved all people. Welcomed input."
- "Very informative, learned more is needed than just a ramp, importance of signage, etc."
- "Lots of info. Lots of topics that I had not thought about. Well run."
- "Yes, very useful. My knowledge of this subject went from very little, to very wide, very informative."
- "Good information to apply to our situation."
- "Useful and applicable to my work."
- "Great information, what an eye opener.