This program enables eligible individuals with disabilities to save money in a tax-exempt account that may be used for qualified disability expenses while keeping their eligibility for federally-funded, means-tested public benefits. Eligible expenses include education, employment training and support, and assistive technology.

This program serves individuals through age 22 who have hearing and vision loss, including assisting youth with their transitions to adulthood. The program also teaches special strategies to educators, parents, and others to best support youth with deaf-blindness.

The Business Enterprise Program helps people who are blind become food service or vending operators.

This program helps ensure underserved parents of children with disabilities, including low-income parents, parents of children who are English learners, and parents with disabilities, have the training and information they need to enable them to participate effectively in helping their children.

This committee works to improve employment outcomes and transportation accessibility for people with disabilities in Alaska through research, planning, monitoring, and advocacy. Members include parents of individuals with disabilities, service providers, self-advocates, others involved in agencies that provide employment and transportation services to people with disabilities, and public community members.

This program pays teachers to facilitate after-school activities that introduce students with disabilities to work-readiness soft skills. It is a collaboration with the Special Education division of the Alaska Department of Education and Early Development as well as Alaska Job Centers.

This program offers multiple courses to expose students with disabilities to postsecondary education and apprenticeship trainings. It combines Pre-Employment Transition Services with “hands-on learning” in fields such as culinary, carpentry, and welding. It is a partnership between the Alaska Division of Vocational Rehabilitation, Northwestern Alaska Career and Technical Center, EXCEL AK, and Voyage to Excellence Career and Technical Education program.

This program provides a variety of direct services for children and youth with disabilities, families, professionals, and other organizations that support them. This includes helping parents participate effectively in their children’s education and development and partnering with professionals and policymakers to improve outcomes for children with disabilities.

Pre-ETS assist students with disabilities in identifying career interests and developing skills to be successful in the workplace. This includes five required activities: job exploration counseling, work-based learning experiences, workplace readiness training, counseling on comprehensive transition or postsecondary educational programs, and instruction in self-advocacy.

This program protects individuals with disabilities by empowering them and advocating on their behalf. This includes providing information and referrals, providing training and technical assistance to service providers, and conducting self-advocacy training.

This four-week program provides students with disabilities the tools and experience to gain and maintain employment after high school. It includes work-based learning, research into career clusters and pathways, assistance with resume writing, and training around interviews, soft skills, and self-advocacy.

This program connects people with mental health issues to potential job opportunities, with an emphasis on those suffering from behavioral health complications that may limit their ability to initially enter the workforce.

Transition Camps are 3-5 day cross-state conferences that provide Pre-Employment Transition Services (Pre-ETS) through presentations by businesses, postsecondary education institutions, and vocational training providers to help students develop a vision for their future. The program is a collaboration between the Alaska Division of Vocational Rehabilitation and the Alaska Department of Education.

This program provides culturally relevant vocational rehabilitation services to assist Alaska Native and American Indian individuals with disabilities residing on or near reservations in the state to prepare for and engage in gainful employment. Program services are provided under an individualized plan for employment.

This program help out-of-school and in-school youth with one or more barriers to employment (including having a disability) prepare for and secure employment and postsecondary education opportunities. Services include tutoring; work experiences; occupational skills training; leadership development opportunities; and postsecondary education and training preparation activities.