SCSEP
Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP)
Senior Service America, Inc. (SSAI) is one of 18 national sponsors of the Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP) authorized under Title V of the Older Americans Act Amendments of 2000. SSAI’s SCSEP is funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Division of Older Worker Programs and operates its SCSEP program exclusively through subgrants to more than 75 local organizations in 16 states. Its subgrantees (also known as SCSEP project sponsors) include faith-based and community-based organizations, community action agencies, local area agencies on aging, local workforce development agencies, regional councils of government and community colleges.
1.Implement demand-driven strategies to meet local job market and employer needs while maintaining SCSEP’s proven, participant-centered approach to serving older job-seekers with multiple barriers to employment.
2.Increase engagement of SCSEP providers in the public workforce system, Chambers of Commerce, and networks of agencies serving the elderly, at the local and state level.
3.Incorporate more skill development into community service employment as a work-based training activity and complement it with other permissible training (computer skills training, on-the-job experience with private for-profit employers, adult basic education, etc.).
4.Strengthen coordination and collaboration among all SCSEP- providers, especially between national and state SCSEP grantees.
Mission and Purpose of the SCSEP
SCSEP fosters and promotes useful, part-time opportunities in community service activities for unemployed, low-income people ages 55 and older with poor employment prospects; the program also fosters individual economic self-sufficiency and increases the number of older people who may enjoy the benefits of unsubsidized employment in the public and private sectors.
Host agencies are diverse and include the offices of the Community Action Council, Jefferson Behavioral Health, the Salvation Army, Samaritan House Thrift Shop, and the Urban Mission. We also work to match the intent of the participant with the appropriate host agency.
| Eliza Kelley | Operations Manager | 282-0971 Ext. 102 |
| Peggy Elliott | Program Coordinator | 282-0971 Ext. 163 |
