Overview

This page provides tools, programs, and guidance to help you prepare for employment, find a job, or start your own business.

Recent Legislative Actions

Key Employment Publications

Alaska Transitions Handbook Pathway to Adulthood & Employment

  • A guide to help navigates many possible options to obtain employment. This acts as a resource to help understand the services that are available to successfully achieve employment and to provide a timeline to better assist focused planning of transition-related activities.
Alaska Transitions Handbook

Empowerment Through Employment

  • This resource was developed to help realize the vision of “Empowerment through Employment” for Alaskans experiencing a range of disabilities. This document includes many of those resources with web links to where you can find more information.
Empowerment Through Employment Guide

Alaska Work Matters Task Force

  • The Alaska Work Matters Task Force was tasked to review and analyze existing policies, practices, and procedures, barriers, and workforce utilization data regarding the employment of people with disabilities in the State of Alaska and prepare a report that includes recommendations that should be adopted by the Governor.
Watch The Time is Now

Job Seeker Resources

Alaska Job Center Network

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The Alaska Job Center Network provides information on current employment opportunities available throughout Alaska. This AlaskaJobs system has replaced ALEXsys. If you need assistance with employment accommodations, please reach out to the Alaska Division of Vocational Rehabilitation

  • Alaska Job Fairs: Provides information on job fairs, workshops, and employment seminars throughout Alaska.
  • Youth Services: Available programs to assist students with career exploration, researching career training and postsecondary options, college and career applications, scholarship searches and applications. 

 

Division of Vocational Rehabilitation

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Each year, the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation (DVR) helps hundreds of Alaskans with disabilities prepare for, get, and keep good jobs. If you want to work or keep working and have a physical, intellectual, or mental condition that makes this hard, you may be eligible for vocational rehabilitation (VR) services.

  • Provisional Hire: The program allows Alaska state hiring managers to hire qualified persons with a disability in a permanent or non-permanent position for up to 4 months of trial work without the requirement to hire as a permanent employee.
  • On-the-Job Training (OJT): The Division of Vocational Rehabilitation offers an On-the-Job Training (OJT) Program that gives employers the opportunity to tap into a pool of workers who are good candidates for a job but may need additional training to be qualified. 

JAN's Workplace Accommodation Toolkit

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JAN's Workplace Accommodation Toolkit is a free comprehensive online resource for employers seeking to move beyond basic compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in order to create more disability-inclusive workplaces. 

Project Search

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Project Search is a unique program provides real-life work experience to help youth, with significant disabilities, make successful transitions from school to adult life.

Start Your Own Business - Microenterprise Grant

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Get funding and support to start or grow a small business if you experience a disability. The Micro Enterprise Fund strives to increase access to Microenterprise and self-employment opportunities for persons with disabilities who are Trust Beneficiaries.  

Resources

Services

Education

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Governor's Council on Disabilities and Special Education