Our Prairie Regional Office has been building partnerships with organizations across Saskatchewan, Alberta, Manitoba, and the Northwest Territories to serve persons with disabilities across the region.

Through partnerships with organizations like the Gary Tinker Federation and the Saskatchewan Indian Institute of Technology, our Prairie Region works extensively with Indigenous participants, both in city centres like Regina and in rural and remote communities. We’ve worked with bands and participants from: Grandmother’s Bay, Cumberland House, La Ronge, Air Ronge, Little Red River Cree Nation, Big River, Pinehouse Lake, Sucker River, Stanley Mission, Buffalo Narrows, Île-à-la-Crosse, File Hills Qu’appelle Region, Ocean Man First Nation, Cote First Nation, Key First Nation, Montreal Lake, and the Prince Albert region. Our Prairie Regional Office also has a strong connection with the Métis Regional Offices in Saskatchewan and Rupertsland in Alberta serving Métis individuals.

“I’d say 70 percent of our participants are Indigenous. We have these strong partnerships. And as you know, it takes a while to become a trusted friend of an Indigenous community,” says Nikki Langdon, Regional Director for the Prairies and Northern Territories, who has run our Prairie Region for over 20 years. “It takes a long time to build that trust.”

In 2025, we partnered with CDÉTNO to open an office in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories with a focus on our Creative Employment Options program, where many of our participants are either Indigenous or new immigrants.

Throughout our Prairie Region, collaboration is key — with all of our programs working in sync.

“It’s very important to me that we are really connected,” says Nikki. “It’s important to me that we all know what each other’s doing. And then when one of us is in the community, we can all speak to anything. So, any of my team members can speak with knowledge about Makers Making Change, about Solutions, about Computer Comfort. We go through that wheel, and we can speak to every cog in that wheel. And that’s a requirement I have of my whole team.”

Participants may access multiple services throughout their journey with us, and often at the same time. For example, they might take part in Group Employment Skills, which helps build employment soft skills in a supportive group setting, work one-on-one with a Job Developer our through Creative Employment Options program, and develop computer skills needed for employment through Computer Comfort. Our team works with each participant to develop an action plan, and they can access many different services at the same time.

Our Solutions program plays a huge role in the Prairie Region. In addition to ergonomic and assistive technology assessments, the Prairie Region Solutions team provides training and presentations, providing accessibility disability awareness training to City of Regina staff and presenting on disability awareness to post-secondary institutions across Saskatchewan.

This article originally appeared in our 2025/2026 Annual Report(new window).