- To provide people with disabilities with the supports and skills required for participation in the labour force
- To remove barriers that people with disabilities face in preparing for, obtaining and maintaining employment
- To assist employers who include people with disabilities in their work force

- Funding must support a resident of Saskatchewan, 18 and over, who, because of a disability, will require extraordinary supports to prepare for, obtain or maintain employment.
- Funding supports are for disability-related costs only.
- Funding may also be used to conduct an assessment of the impact of disability and the supports required for successful 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 disability-related costs and must encourage the use of mainstream programs wherever possible.

- any adult who, because of a disability, requires specialized supports in order to prepare for, obtain and/or maintain employment;
- a Community-Based Organization who conducts assessments or provides disability-specific career or employment services; or
- an employer who requires specialized support to hire an individual with 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 activities;

individual work history, previous education and training;

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

Applications are assessed on a case by case basis.

- Employers who are hiring a person with a disability 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.