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Disability Related Employment Supports - DRES

Employment and Immigration
Last Verified: 2007-11-21
Disability related employment supports provide assistance to Albertans in overcoming the barriers to employment created by their disability.

Eligibility Criteria

To be eligible for DRES the individual must:

 

• Have a documented permanent  or long term disability that creates a barrier to employment
• Be living in Alberta or an Albertan attending an out-of-province educational institution,
• For educational supports, must meet citizenship requirements (i.e. Canadian citizen, permanent resident, or convention refugee) and be legally entitled to train in Canada,
• For workplace supports, must be legally entitled to work in Canada and be 16 years of age or older,
• If work destined in the competitive labour market and complete an individual service plan (clients attending a post-secondary institution must be employment destined but do not require a service plan).

Summary

Disability related employment supports are offered in four areas:

Workplace Supports - Workplace supports assist individuals to make a successful transition to the workplace or to maintain employment during a disability related job crisis. The supports may include a job coach, job mediator, mentor, and workplace modifications.

Job Search Supports - DRES covers goods and services that are disability related and over and above those provided by mainstream services. This could include for example, a sign language interpreter so that a client with a hearing impairment can attend a job search workshop.

Educational Supports - Educational supports involves assistance to learners preparing for employment through post-secondary education, basic skill training, academic upgrading, or labour market programs. Supports can include sign language interpreters, tutors, note takers, readers, and student assistants.

Assistive Technology - Assistive technology includes the purchase, set-up and training of technology required to alleviate, reduce, or remove a barrier to education, training or employment.

For more information contact your nearest Canada-Alberta Service Centre. Call the RITE line toll-free at 310-0000 to reach the centre nearest you, or visit http://www.alis.gov.ab.ca/career/cs/abcareer.asp

Information is also available by calling the Career Information Hotline at 1-800-661-3753. In Edmonton call 422-4266. To access more information via the Internet, visit http://www.hre.gov.ab.ca/cps/rde/xchg/hre/hs.xsl/3159.html

Employer inquiries are welcomed.

Related Reading

• Career Information Hotline

Alberta Contact(s):
Career Information Hotline
Alberta Employment and Immigration
Alberta 
Telephone: 780-422-4266 (Edmonton)
Fax: 780-422-0372
Toll-free (information): 1-800-661-3753 (throughout Alberta)
TTY Toll-free (hearing impaired): 1-800-232-7215
TTY (hearing impaired): 780-422-5283
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