Community Support

Agencies and organizations

STEP Center, Anchorage School District

Start here as this site has numerous links to local agencies and services. Not all apply to postsecondary transition but many do.

Division of Vocational Rehabilitation

The website states that its mission is “to assist individuals with disabilities to obtain and maintain employment.”

Alaska Department of Workforce and Labor Development

Website describes itself as “Providing safe and legal working conditions and advancing opportunities for employment.”

Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority

The Trust, as it is often called, describes itself as a “catalyst for change and improvement in the systems that serve Trust beneficiaries, who include people with mental illness, developmental disabilities, chronic alcoholism and other substance related disorders, Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia, and traumatic brain injury that results in permanent brain injury.”