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This report emphasises that the rates of participation in vocational education and training (VET) for working age people with disabilities continue to lag behind those of the general working age population in Australia. In October 2000, the Building Diversity project was initiated by Edge Training Solutions with funding from the Western Australian (WA) Department of Training, to identify, develop and pilot initiatives to assist graduates with disabilities in making a successful transition from the VET sector into employment in their chosen field of study. The project aimed to address some of the issues associated with this transition process through the development and piloting of a range of specific interventions and linkages in and/or between existing programs in the training and employment sectors. The project investigated the following areas: employment outcomes for VET graduates with disabilities in WA; mentoring programs for VET graduates with disabilities transiting to employment; other strategies and pathways for VET graduates with disabilities transiting to employment; and ways of consolidating transition strategies and pathways with minimal ongoing resource implications for the WA Department of Training. Findings are discussed for each of these areas of investigation.