The 2021 Community Inclusion Project is designed to improve the disability system’s capacity to work together and find creative ways to overcome barriers, in order to better support community inclusion and competitive integrated employment opportunities for individuals with disabilities.

This program provides individual, group, and systems advocacy to help individuals with disabilities protect their rights and obtain necessary resources. Individual advocacy involves teaching individuals self-advocacy skills and helping them communicate and negotiate with agencies, service providers, employers and others in order to obtain needed benefits, services or accommodations.

This program enables individuals with disabilities, service providers and others to learn about, access, and acquire assistive technology needed for education, employment, and community living. Services include device demonstrations, reutilization, loans, and financing.

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

CAP helps individuals who experience problems when applying for or receiving vocational rehabilitation or independent living services. This includes advising and informing individuals of their rights and providing advocacy services.

This program works to safeguard the rights of people with disabilities in a range of work environments, including assisting Social Security beneficiaries in removing barriers to employment, ensuring that employers do not discriminate because of a person’s disability, assisting employees in obtaining reasonable accommodations in the workplace, and helping people get necessary services from the state’s Vocational Rehabilitation program.

This 10-part workshop series teaches students with disabilities the basic skills necessary to be successful in the workplace. Topics include self-discovery, job-readiness, job-seeking, and job-keeping.

This program supports Parent Training and Information Centers and Community Parent Resource Centers in 11 western states plus two territories. Services include one-to-one consultations, trainings and webinars, peer-to-peer mentoring, site visits, non-profit management tools, and more.

These programs offer students with intellectual disabilities an opportunity to take college classes, engage in career development and independent living activities, and participate in the social life of a college campus.

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 program helps individuals with the most significant disabilities find, learn, and keep a job, including individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities, serious mental illness, acquired brain injury and other significant disabilities. The Office of Rehabilitation partners with Community Rehabilitation Programs (CRP), the Division of Services for People with Disabilities (DSPD) and the Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health (DSAMH) to assist individuals in their employment goals.

This program helps blind and visually impaired students achieve greater independence through classes like Cane Travel, Braille Literacy, Computers and Adaptive Technology, Home Management, Wood Shop and Needle Arts. Students master skills through completing course curriculum, and engage in group discussions and activities to help them build confidence, gain new experiences, and integrate into society.

This statewide resource offers information and technical services to help people with disabilities acquire and use assistive technology devices. UCAT offers free evaluations to anyone within the state of Utah.

This program helps individuals with disabilities who are receiving Social Security Disability benefits make informed choices about work and make a successful transition to self-sufficiency.

The Youth Transition Program helps students with disabilities ages 14 to 22 gain independent living skills to prepare for their transitions out of high school. Topics include life skills, money and time management, looking for and maintaining a job, riding the bus, and reading bus schedules. These skills are taught on location in high school classrooms and post-high school classrooms.