The Alaska Scorecard has been revised to align with Strengthening the System: Comprehensive Integrated Mental Health Program Plan 2020-2024 (Strengthening the System). The Scorecard is a data measurement tool that examines the population health outcomes of Alaskans receiving care and services as described in Strengthening the System.
“The Governor’s Council on Disabilities and Special Education (GCDSE) is a dynamic council of self-advocates, parents, professionals, and partners working together to advance the inclusion and independence of Alaskans with disabilities. The 2024 annual report highlights their activities and milestones of the Council’s goals of community inclusion, self-advocacy, and employment.”
This page has information on resources related to employment, disability benefits and disability employment laws.
This page lists services/programs available for transition age youth in Alaska.
Our mission is to support the rights of those living with life complexities and disabilities to participate in all aspects of vocational services, while striving to eliminate barriers to employment. Together we form partnerships with individuals, families, employers, service providers, and the community at large to support the creation of expanded work options and meaningful employment, promote economic opportunities and independence, encourage self‐determination, and support the inclusion of people with complex lives into the community.
“Provides care coordination, day hab, residential hab, respite, supported employment, chore, environmental mods, intensive active treatment, meals, nursing oversight and care management, specialized medical equipment, transportation for medically fragile individuals ages 0-21.”
“Sec. 2. AS 18.80.200 is amended to read:
(b) Therefore, it is the policy of the state and the purpose of this chapter to eliminate and prevent discrimination in employment, in credit and financing practices, in places of public accommodation, in the sale, lease, or rental of real property because of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, physical or mental disability, marital status, changes in marital status, pregnancy or parenthood. It is also the policy of the state to encourage and enable physically and mentally disabled persons to participate fully in the social and economic life of the state and to engage in remunerative employment. It is not the purpose of this chapter to supersede laws pertaining to child labor, the age of majority, or other age restrictions or requirements.”
An Act relating to the education and employment of individuals with disabilities.” Signed into law on 9/19/14 by Governor Sean Parnell. Sec. 23.15.095. Gainful employment of individuals with disabilities. (a) When providing vocational training, vocational rehabilitation, or employment placement of an individual with a disability, the agency’s primary objective and preferred outcome is to help the individual become gainfully employed in an integrated workplace where individuals with disabilities work with and alongside of individuals without disabilities.
“Summary: An Act establishing a program for financial accounts for individuals with disabilities; exempting the procurement of contracts for the program from the State Procurement Code; exempting certain information on participants in the program from being subject to inspection as a public record; providing that an account under the program for an individual with a disability is not a security; allowing a state to file a claim against an individual’s financial account under the program to recover Medicaid payments after the individual’s death; and providing for an effective date. The bill was enrolled on July 8, 2016.”