Alaska Works Initiative: Addressing Barriers, Increasing Employment, Creating Change, employment, training, and technical assistance

Four Part Promise to
Americans with Disabilities

  • Educational Opportunities – to include study of issues relating to transition to work and higher education
  • End Discrimination and Promote Equal Opportunity – to include accessible health care for all and improving mental health care
  • Increase the Employment Rate – to include implementing regulations that require the federal government and its contractors to employ people with disabilities
  • Support Independent, Community-Based Living – streamlining the Social Security approval process of choice in residence and creating a budget-neutral national insurance program to help individuals with disabilities remain independent

For a complete listing of these four parts, see:

http://www.barackobama.com/pdf/DisabilityPlanFactSheet.pdf and http://www.whitehouse.gov/agenda/disabilities