Appendix: Terminology, Acronyms, Terms Used

• ACL - Association for Community Living.

• Best Buddies - Program that matches university students with people with an intellectual disability for social activities.

• CareerCrusing - Software program used to identify/match for First participants their interests and skills with jobs.

• CCRW - Canadian Council for Rehabilitation and Work.

• DSP - Disability Support Program, A NB government project sponsored by the department of Social Development which offers people with disabilities in the development of their personal disability support plan with individualized funding.

• FT - Full Time job.

• FUN-NB - Name for provincial family network sponsored by NBACL.

• Inclusion Toolkit - and additional resources on the NBACL website.

• NBACL - New Brunswick Association for Community Living.

• NBCCSJ - New Brunswick Community College Saint John.

• Opportunities Fund - Federal government program for funding employment projects.

• PATH - Planning Alternatives Tomorrow with Hope goal setting program for participants.

• PETL - Post Secondary Education and Labour.

• PT - Part Time job.

• Retention Program - Employment program for social assistance recipients.

• SARS - Social Assistance Recipients.

• SD - Social Development department of the provincial government that deals with SARS.

• SJ - Saint John.

• SJACL - Saint John Association for Community Living.

• Special Olympics - An association that offers recreational and sports opportunities to people with an intellectual disability.

• Student Loans - Government of Canada Student Loans.

• TESS - Training and Employment Support Services - Program that supplies support services to participants, i.e, job coaches.

• Training and Skills Development - Government program that provides financial assistance to people with disabilities to continue with training and education.

• Work Ability - Provincial government program that supplies short term assistance to business who hire participants.

• Work Force Expansion - Provincial government program that supplies longer term assistance to business who hire participants.