Program directory · Employment and Social Development Canada
Opportunities Fund for Persons with Disabilities
- Department
- Employment and Social Development Canada
- Program code
- BGO04 (HRSD)
- Core responsibility
- Learning, Skills Development and Employment
- In Departmental Plans
- 2018-19 – 2026-27 · New since an earlier plan
What it does
The Opportunities Fund for Persons with Disabilities helps persons with disabilities to find and keep good jobs, advance in their careers, or become entrepreneurs. Projects funded by the program provide skills and pre-employability training, self-employment activities, job placements, and a range of other wrap-around supports. The program also funds projects that help employers hire and retain persons with disabilities and create more inclusive and accessible workplaces, and projects that help individuals and organizations that work to support disability inclusion and accessibility in employment.
Source: the department's Program Inventory, via GC InfoBase.
History and lineage
First appears in GC InfoBase's actual spending by program in 2018-19. The data does not record when a program was created; it may be older than its first appearance here, which is limited by the sources (program spending starts in 2010-11, Departmental Plans in 2018-19).
| Program | Relation | Years with data | Actual spending over those years |
|---|---|---|---|
| Opportunities Fund for Persons with Disabilities | This program | 2018-19 – 2028-29 | $460M |
No earlier or later program in the same department has a similar name.
Significant changes in scope and budget
Detected from the data: renames between plans, programs it appears to replace, merge with or split into (matched by name), year-over-year changes in spending of at least 25% and $5M, or in employees of at least 20% and 25 FTEs, linked budget measures, and results indicators added or dropped.
| Year | What changed | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-21 | Indicators added: Number of participants employed or self-employed or returned to school after their intervention | Departmental Results Framework (GC InfoBase) |
| 2020-21 | Indicators dropped: Number of clients employed or self-employed; Number of clients with enhanced employability | Departmental Results Framework (GC InfoBase) |
| 2020-21 | Spending $57.2M, against $44.8M in 2019-20 (+28%). | Actual spending (GC InfoBase) |
| 2021-22 | Spending $74.4M, against $57.2M in 2020-21 (+30%). | Actual spending (GC InfoBase) |
| 2022-23 | Spending $52.2M, against $74.4M in 2021-22 (−30%). | Actual spending (GC InfoBase) |
| 2023-24 | Spending $93.1M, against $52.2M in 2022-23 (+78%). | Actual spending (GC InfoBase) |
| 2024-25 | Employees (FTEs) 89, against 58 in 2023-24 (+53%). | FTEs (GC InfoBase) |
| 2027-28 | Planned employees (FTEs) 43, against 90 in 2026-27 (−52%). | FTEs (GC InfoBase) |
| 2027-28 | Planned spending $41.2M, against $110M in 2026-27 (−63%). | Latest Departmental Plan |
Success criteria
The program's indicators from its department's Departmental Results Framework: the target set in each year's plan, and the result reported the following year. Source: GC InfoBase.
Historical: targets against results
Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-21 | ≥ 2,980 | 2021 | 1,350 COVID-19 impacts such as interruption of services, widespread loss/reduction of jobs, closure of educational institutions resulted in lower than anticipated number of participants. Actual result does not include Quebec. Data from Quebec on those who were employed or returned to school will be available before the end of the 2021-2022 fiscal year. | Not met |
| 2021-22 | ≥ 2,878 | 2022 | 2,349 For the fiscal year 2021-2022, the Opportunities Fund served 4,375 clients, of which 2,050 were employed or self-employed and 299 returned to school. These results are from across Canada including preliminary data from Quebec, as final Quebec results under the Canada-Quebec Agreement are not available until end of November 2022. The final result for 2021-2022 will be adjusted as required in the 2… | Not met |
| 2022-23 | ≥ 2,245 | 2023 | 2,846 The actual result does not include Quebec data as they will not be available until December 2023. | Met |
| 2023-24 | ≥ 3,355 | 2024 | — Program results not available due to changes to reporting requirement. Actual results will be reported in the 2024-25 DRR. | No result reported |
| 2024-25 | ≥ 3,700 | 2025 | 2,318 The program updated its performance measurement reporting tool in 2022-2023. However, delays in implementation have affected timely reporting. Individual reporting forms are still being validated, and current results (2,318) are preliminary. Results from the province of Quebec have not been included and are expected to be available in the fall 2025, which may increase the reported number of parti… | Not met |
Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | ≥ 1,788 | 2019 | 2,718 | Met |
| 2019-20 | ≥ 2,400 | 2020 | 1,554 Targets not met as participation in the OF program fluctuates due to various reasons such as illness, drop outs, etc. | Not met |
Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | ≥ 4,023 | 2019 | 4,452 | Met |
| 2019-20 | ≥ 3,170 | 2020 | 2,804 Targets not met as participation in the OF program fluctuates due to various reasons such as illness, drop outs, etc. | Not met |
Current: the 2026-27 plan's targets
Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-27 | ≥ 3,700 | 2027 | — | Planned |
Future goals: targets due after 2026-27
No targets with a later due date.
Spending and employees: planned against actual
Spending
Show the numbers
| Fiscal year | Planned | Actual |
|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | $41.1M | $39.5M |
| 2019-20 | $43.2M | $44.8M |
| 2020-21 | $48.1M | $57.2M |
| 2021-22 | $50.1M | $74.4M |
| 2022-23 | $71.5M | $52.2M |
| 2023-24 | $108M | $93.1M |
| 2024-25 | $104M | $99M |
| 2025-26 | $110M | — |
| 2026-27 | $110M | — |
| 2027-28 | $41.2M* | — |
| 2028-29 | $41.2M* | — |
Employees (FTEs)
Show the numbers
| Fiscal year | Planned | Actual |
|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | 45 | 52 |
| 2019-20 | 48 | 42 |
| 2020-21 | 50 | 39 |
| 2021-22 | 48 | 43 |
| 2022-23 | 49 | 55 |
| 2023-24 | 95 | 58 |
| 2024-25 | 94 | 89 |
| 2025-26 | 92 | — |
| 2026-27 | 90 | — |
| 2027-28 | 43* | — |
| 2028-29 | 43* | — |
Planned spending, plan by plan
Each row is one year's Departmental Plan and its forecast for the next three fiscal years; read a column down to see how the forecast for one year changed. The last row is what was actually spent. Click an amount for its source. Biggest changes in federal spending plans
| Plan | 2018-19 | 2019-20 | 2020-21 | 2021-22 | 2022-23 | 2023-24 | 2024-25 | 2025-26 | 2026-27 | 2027-28 | 2028-29 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 plan | $41,075,478 | $41,075,478 | $41,075,478 | ||||||||
| 2019-20 plan | $43,194,640 | $43,152,182 | $44,191,373 | ||||||||
| 2020-21 plan | $48,098,666 | $50,006,251 | $45,170,181 | ||||||||
| 2021-22 plan | $50,125,030 | $45,290,584 | $45,289,074 | ||||||||
| 2022-23 plan | $71,469,997 | $45,245,024 | $40,926,484 | ||||||||
| 2023-24 plan | $108,134,081 | $103,685,551 | $103,651,361 | ||||||||
| 2024-25 plan | $104,245,042 | $104,217,396 | $104,212,202 | ||||||||
| 2025-26 plan | $110,171,283 | $110,153,281 | $41,372,995 | ||||||||
| 2026-27 plan | $110,061,394 | $41,225,135 | $41,208,282 | ||||||||
| Actual | $39,489,922 | $44,790,057 | $57,179,597 | $74,411,608 | $52,196,132 | $93,103,889 | $99,040,309 |
Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.
