GSUSA (Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace)

The Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace will build the capacity of its staff to offer trainings on working with people with disabilities, sparking an ongoing conversation about disability history, culture, rights, and advocacy within its local community and the national Girl Scouts movement. The museum will increase its accessibility and create an access improvement plan by commissioning a professional assessment of its physical spaces, programs, policies, and procedures by the Institute for Human Centered Design. The Institute will also develop and implement training for museum staff, which will be opened to other external audiences such as museum professionals, teachers, social workers, and the tourism industry, serving a total of 150-200 people. Other project activities include the presentation of eight public programs on disability-related topics in partnership with Georgia Public Broadcasting, and the creation of an ongoing program on disability awareness to be presented to groups visiting the museum.