You can offer the best location, a top-tier catering menu, and the most advanced technological resources–but without guests, your venue can’t thrive.
To truly host exceptional events, your venue should accommodate all guests regardless of ability.
At Overland Park Convention Center, we’ve taken the necessary steps to adapt our event venue so anyone can comfortably navigate the space, regardless of their physical or mental condition.
If you’re looking to make your event venue more welcoming, read our ADA and inclusivity checklist to see how we’ve made OPCC a more welcoming space for everyone.
Foster a Space Everyone Can Access
At Overland Park Convention Center, we’ve taken specific steps to make our venue ADA-compliant. Sometimes, we can take the most basic functions for granted. As you move through your event space, you may not consider how someone with a physical impairment might navigate the same venue.
If you have a guest or speaker who requires a walker or wheelchair to move, you want them to get where they need to go. By adding ramps and elevators, we made sure the architecture of our venue doesn’t prevent maneuverability.
No matter how a guest moves through the world, they can enter, navigate, and enjoy our facility with ease.
Accommodate Unseen Conditions
Many venues focus on physical accessibility—and while that’s essential, it’s just as important to support guests with invisible conditions. And while you do need to enable guests with physical disabilities to navigate your venue, you should account for less-visible conditions also. At OPCC, we’ve built a specialized sensory room for guests with sensory sensitivities.
Guests who have conditions like autism or PTSD may feel especially sensitive to loud noises or busy spaces, so they need a place to recuperate.
Our sensory room has low light and reduced sound, and it contains comfortable seating and soothing tactile art pieces to distract anxious guests. Installing a resource like the sensory room helps everyone to feel more safe at your venue.
Train Your Employees
We also train our team of men and women to understand mental and physical conditions so they understand the difficulties our guests might face.
When someone hosts an event at OPCC, they can always feel comfortable reaching out to a member of the staff to ask questions or get help. The OPCC team works to predict guests’ needs, so they can focus on enjoying the event.
Build the Venue Your Guests Deserve
An event is only as good as its guests, so make sure your venue can accommodate as many different types of guests as possible. Take the necessary steps to keep everyone comfortable when they attend an event in your space.
If you want to learn more about how we make OPCC accessible for people with all different needs, contact our experts. We’re more than happy to discuss our inclusivity and ADA protocols and offer the advice you need. Your guests deserve the best—we’re here to help you deliver it.
