REACH Inc.

10/13/2026

What does meaningful employment look like? It starts with opportunity, support, and someone who believes in your potential. 💙

For National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM), we’re resharing Matthew’s story to highlight the important role Job Coaches play in helping individuals with disabilities build skills, grow confidence, and pursue meaningful employment.

To Matthew and all Job Coaches at REACH, thank you for the patience, encouragement, and dedication you bring to your work. Your support helps individuals recognize their strengths, overcome challenges, and work toward their goals. The impact you make goes beyond the workplace. You help create opportunities for greater independence, confidence, and belonging.

Thank you for helping make inclusive employment possible! 💙

10/13/2026

5 Days to Go! 🎬 FREE Movie Screening

What does meaningful employment and true inclusion look like for people with disabilities?

Join REACH for a special screening of 25 Prospect Street in celebration of National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM).

📅 October 18, 2026
🕑 2:00 PM
📍 Goldtown Theater
🎟️ FREE Admission (Sponsored by REACH)

Come watch, connect, and celebrate inclusion with us. Everyone is welcome, so bring your family, friends, coworkers, and community members.

🍿 Snacks and drinks available for purchase.

Save the date and join us for an inspiring afternoon. We hope to see you there!

10/12/2026

Wondering what happens after you reach out to REACH Infant Learning Program?

Starting early intervention can feel like a big step, but you don’t have to navigate the process alone.

From referral and intake to evaluation, eligibility, creating an IFSP, and ongoing services, REACH ILP partners with families throughout the journey.

🌱 Our goal is to support your child’s development while working alongside your family, your priorities, and your everyday routines.

▶️ Watch this quick video to learn what you can expect.
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10/09/2026

What happens when we look beyond disability and see potential?

For National Disability Employment Awareness Month, we’re sharing 5 things to know about disability employment and why opportunity, inclusion, and meaningful work matter.

People with disabilities bring unique skills, talents, perspectives, and goals to the workforce. With the right opportunities and support, they can build careers, grow their independence, and make meaningful contributions to their communities.

Swipe through to learn why disability employment matters.

See potential. Create opportunity. Build inclusion.

10/07/2026

🎨 Calling Local Artists!

Community Artist Spotlight: Holiday Window Display

REACH is looking for a local artist to bring creativity and community spirit to our downtown window display at Seward St. & 3rd St. this holiday season.

Know an artist who would be a great fit? Nominate them, or nominate yourself!

Here’s how it works:
• Artists may be nominated by a community member or self-nominated.
• Nominated artists will be contacted to confirm their interest and availability.
• Artists who accept will submit a visual concept showing how they would decorate the window.
• Three artists will be selected, and the community will vote to choose the featured Holiday Window Artist.

📅 Nominations close: October 15
🗳️ Community voting: October 16–31
✨ Winner announced: November 1

The selected artist will have the opportunity to showcase their creativity in REACH’s downtown window throughout the holiday season.

Installation note: Artists must be able to safely complete the installation, including ladder use, or arrange appropriate assistance.

👉 Nominate a local artist or yourself today:
https://reachalaska.my.canva.site/

10/07/2026

How did National Disability Employment Awareness Month begin?

NDEAM has a history that goes back to 1945, when a national week was established to recognize the contributions of people with disabilities and encourage employment opportunities.

Over the decades, it evolved from a one-week observance into a month-long recognition of disability employment, inclusion, and opportunity.

Today, NDEAM is a reminder that people with disabilities bring valuable skills, talents, and perspectives to the workforce—and that everyone deserves the opportunity to pursue meaningful employment.

Swipe through to learn how NDEAM evolved and why its history still matters today.

Awareness has a history. Inclusion has a future..

10/06/2026

🍽️ Access is about more than getting through the door. It's about belonging.

Join us in supporting on October 10 and celebrating inclusive communities where everyone can participate, connect, and thrive.

What does equal access to community life look like? Sometimes, it looks like dinner.

This October 10, Disability Night Out is inviting disabled people, families, friends, and allies to gather at restaurants across the country and celebrate our right to participate fully in community life.

Access is about more than getting through the door. It means being able to participate in the ordinary moments that connect us, like sharing a meal, spending time with friends and family, celebrating, and simply being part of our communities.

More than 36 years after the ADA, disabled people still encounter barriers in restaurants, cafés, and other community spaces. Disability Night Out offers a joyful way to make those barriers more visible while showing what inclusion can feel like.

This isn’t about catching businesses doing something wrong. It’s about disabled people bringing our lived expertise to the table, sharing what works and what could work better, and inviting restaurants to be part of creating more accessible and welcoming communities.

Experiences, feedback, and photos shared through Disability Night Out will help turn what we learn on October 10 into opportunities for greater access.

Because disabled people belong everywhere community happens.

Join Disability Night Out on 10/10!

Learn more at: disabilitynightout.org

10/05/2026

Mark your calendars!

Join REACH Inc. as we celebrate National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM) with a special FREE screening of the documentary 25 Prospect Street.

🎥 25 Prospect Street highlights the importance of disability inclusion, meaningful employment, and the incredible contributions of people with disabilities in our communities and workplaces.

📅 October 18, 2026
🕑 2:00 PM
📍 Gold Town Theater
🎟️ FREE Admission

Come celebrate inclusion, opportunity, and the power of employment for all.

🍿 Snacks and drinks available for purchase.
💙 Everyone is welcome!

10/05/2026

What does a Job Coach really do?

It’s not about doing the job for someone. It’s about providing the guidance, encouragement, and support needed to build skills, grow confidence, and discover what’s possible.

The goal of a Job Coach isn’t to be needed forever. It’s to help someone realize, “I can do this on my own.”

That’s the heart of Supported Employment—helping people build meaningful careers while growing toward greater independence.

Support isn’t about doing it for someone. It’s about helping them realize they can do it themselves.

10/02/2026

Disability is NOT a limitation. Lack of opportunity IS.

Disability does not mean inability. People with disabilities have dreams, goals, talents, and the potential to achieve meaningful things in their lives.

Too often, it’s not a person’s disability that stands in the way—it’s the barriers around them: limited access, discrimination, low expectations, and a lack of opportunity.

When we remove barriers and create inclusive spaces, people have the opportunity to learn, work, contribute, connect, and thrive.

The question isn’t what someone can’t do.
It’s whether we’re creating the opportunity for them to show what they can do.

Let’s challenge assumptions, remove barriers, and create a world where everyone has the opportunity to reach their potential.