- To provide people with disabilities with the necessary skills to be included fully in the labour force
- To remove barriers that people with disabilities face in preparing for, obtaining and retaining employment
- To provide support to employers to include people with disabilities in their particular work force

- Funding must support a resident of Saskatchewan, 18 to 65 years of age, who, because of a disability, will require extraordinary supports to secure or maintain employment.
- Funding supports are for disability-related costs only.
- Funding may also be used to conduct an assessment of an adult to determine the level of disability and the supports that will be required that lead to employment.
- Funding is contingent upon confirmation of disability and a description of the supports needed in an Individual Action Plan.
- The Action Plan must focus on employment with attention to disabioity-related costs and must encourage the use of mainstream programs.

- any adult who because of a disability requires specialized supports in order to prepare for, obtain and/or maintain employment;
- a Career or Vocation Counsellor, acting on behalf of an individual;
- a Community-Based Organization who conducts assessments or provides disability-specific counselling or employment-focused services; or
- an employer who requires specialized support to hire an individual wiht a disability.

a career goal;

rationale: Why is the support required? This should be a description of how the intervention will help the individual to participate in the labour force;

a listing of measures, both short-term and long-term, that will be required to attain the goal;

descriptions of extraordinary costs necessary to participate in programs of study and other employability-related activies;

individual work history, previous education and training;

disability-related costs required to include the individual in the program.

- Employers who are hiring a person with a disibility can receive support for the disability-related costs of accommodating that person.

- Typical accommodation costs would include such interventions as wage subsidies, technical supports, job coach and job shadowing. Generally, capital costs will not be approved.