Senior Community Service Employment Program

Senior Community Service Employment Program Program Overview The Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP), funded under Title V of the Older Americans Act, serves persons with low incomes who are 55 years old or over and have poor employment prospects. The program has two purposes: to provide useful community services and to foster individual economic self sufficiency through training and job placement in unsubsidized jobs. Services provided include: up to 20 hours a week of part-time employment in community service assignments job training and related educational opportunities opportunities for placement into unsubsidized jobs Community service assignments include the following activities: social, health, welfare, and educational services (particularly literacy tutoring) personal assistance, including tax counseling and assistance and financial counseling library, recreational, and other similar services conservation, maintenance, or restoration of natural resources community betterment or beautification anti-pollution and environmental quality efforts weatherization activities economic development; and such other services essential and necessary to the community as the Secretary of the Department of Labor, by regulation, may prescribe. To locate a program near you, please call Louis C. Stone at (615) 741-8777. Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)