Arizona Freedom to Work Program
AHCCCS offers insurance for qualified individuals who are working and have a disability. This program is called the AHCCCS Freedom to Work Program.
State: Arizona
Arizona State University Work-integrated Learning Accelerator
“The National Work-integrated Learning (WIL) Accelerator Institute is a multi-year effort launching in mid- 2025 designed to bridge higher education, EdTech, workforce, and industry through co-design and implementation of multiple WIL pilots across the country. Our vision is to transform education into a dynamic, cross-sector ecosystem that develops in-demand skills and redefines the learner experience.”
Arizona DOE Secondary Transition Exceptional Student Services
“Secondary Transition (ST) bridges school programs and adult life opportunities, such as higher education, employment, and independent living. This process is guided by a transition plan, as required by Indicator 13 of the IDEA Part B. The ST Team focuses on best practice strategies for the transition planning process. These resources aim to support compliance with state-specific guidelines, offer transition planning best practices, and encourage collaboration with stakeholders that impact the secondary transition of students with disabilities.”
Arizona DES Apprenticeship Program
The Arizona Apprenticeship Program offers Registered Apprenticeships in various industries throughout the state. This page includes information for individuals interested in becoming an apprentice, how to find a registered apprenticeship program, and for employers interested in offering an apprenticeship program.
Arizona: Talent Ready AZ
“Talent Ready AZ is a workforce and education initiative that is working to achieve the Governor’s vision of an Arizona for everyone by providing Arizonans access to education and training that lead to good-paying jobs. Talent Ready AZ is working to create education and training opportunities into high-demand and high-growth industries that are shaping the future economy of the state.”
Arizona DERS Jobs For Veterans State Grants (JVSG) Policy Manual (2025)
“This policy manual highlights the requirements of JVSG according to federal laws, regulations, and guidelines. The policies outlined in this manual will inform all staff on policies related to the JVSG program.”
Arizona DDPC Self-Employment for Workers with Disabilities: An Underutilized but Viable Option (2015)
“For years, disability advocates have struggled with advancing self-employment options for people with disabilities to help combat their low employment rates. Trends including downsizing, increased use of contract and temporary employees, and advances in technology have dramatically transformed the workplace. In Arizona in 2014 the broadest measure of labor underutilization, designated U-6 (which includes the unemployed, workers employed part-time for economic reasons and those marginally attached to the labor force) was 14.7 percent, significantly higher than the 12 percent national average.”
This report promotes self-employment for persons with disabilities.
Arizona Medicaid State Plan
The Arizona Medicaid state plan details the a state and Federal government Medicaid implementation agreement. It describes how that state administers its Medicaid and CHIP programs. It also describes how the state will abide by Federal rules and may claim Federal matching funds for its program activities. The state plan sets out groups of individuals to be covered, services to be provided, methodologies for providers to be reimbursed and the administrative activities that are underway in the state.
Arizona Developmental Disabilities Planning Council (ADDPC)
“A staff of six assists the all-volunteer Arizona Developmental Disabilities Planning Council, which is made up of individuals with disabilities, family members, professional stakeholders and state agency representatives appointed by the Governor of Arizona. The 23-member Council meets at least four times a year to discuss issues and vote on which projects to support by allocating our federal funds.
We were created on July 1, 2009 as a successor organization to the former Governor’s Council on Developmental Disabilities.
OUR MISSION: We want to develop and support capacity building and systemic change to increase inclusion and involvement of persons with developmental disabilities in their communities through the promotion of self-determination, independence and dignity in all aspects of life.
OUR VISION: The vision of the Arizona Developmental Disabilities Planning Council is one community working together to achieve full inclusion and participation of persons with developmental disabilities.”
Arizona HCR 2029: Supporting the Employment of Persons with Disabilities…
Supporting the Employment of Persons with Disabilities and Encouraging Arizona Businesses to Hire Persons with Disabilities
“Whereas, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) prohibits discrimination in employment against qualified individuals on the basis of disability, which the ADA defines as a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits a major life activity, such as hearing, seeing, speaking, walking, breathing, performing manual tasks, caring for oneself, learning or working; and Whereas, an employer is required to provide a reasonable accommodation to an employee with a disability unless the accommodation would be an undue hardship that would require significant difficultly or expense; and Whereas, many unemployed individuals with disabilities are ready, able and willing to work. Therefore Be it resolved by the House of Representatives of the State of Arizona, the Senate concurring: That the Members of the Legislature support the employment of persons with disabilities and encourage Arizona businesses to hire persons with disabilities.”