This document provides a 30-second inclusion training from the Office of Faith Based and Community Initiatives. It presents three options for accommodating members with disabilities and indicates that the third option of anticipating needs and providing accessible signage and seating is the best approach. The training emphasizes making permanent rooms accessible with signage, providing alternatives to fixed seating, and ensuring workspaces are adjustably accommodating. It concludes by providing contact information for additional information.

1. Hello!
This is your 30-
Second
Inclusion Training
Common Areas
Brought to you by the
Office of Faith Based and
Community Initiatives (OFBCI).
Click here to begin

2. People with all kinds of disabilities need to be
able to function at an organization as anyone
else would.
Which accommodation is the best?
Members with disabilities are required, just like
everyone else, to know where the permanent rooms
are after three weeks of being assigned at a host site.
Members with disabilities are seated in separate
areas and have to provide desks for themselves.
Members with disabilities have their needs anticipated.
There are signs for all permanent rooms and
alternatives to permanent seating.

3. Good Effort
BUT
Please Try Again
While everyone is being treated equally, this option is not
accommodating for anyone. Permanent rooms/doors like
restrooms and exits need to be labeled. The labeling needs to
also comply with the appropriate requirements for accessible
signage.

4. Come on…
You can do it!
Nice try but this is, however, not inclusive. Alternatives to fixed
seating need to be provided. Work spaces like desks need to
also be provided and can be adjustable in order to reasonably
accommodate.

5. Great Job!
In this case, this is the best answer. Members, and everyone else,
need to be able to have permanent signs designating restrooms and
exits. Common paths need to be at least 36 inches wide and free
from obstacles. Where seating is at tables, clearance needs to be 19”
deep, 27” high, 30” wide, with adequate space between people
seated at tables (32” minimum) for wheelchair passage, in a
reasonable proportion of the common area.
For more information contact:
Mariann Bernlohr
Training & Inclusion Manager
Office of Faith Based and Community Initiatives
mbernlohr@ofbci.in.gov
317-234-5891