Senior Community Service Employment Program

Purpose
This program fosters economic self-sufficiency through community service activities for unemployed, low-income persons who are 55 years of age and older and have poor employment prospects.

Customers and Services
Customers are Minnesotans 55+ years-old, with an income of less than 125 percent of the federal poverty levels, who want/need additional income. Services include work in part-time jobs at senior citizen and day care centers, schools, and hospitals; fire-prevention programs; beautification, conservation, and restoration projects; and programs for people with disabilities. Annual physical examinations, personal and job-related counseling, job training if necessary, and in some cases, placement into regular unsubsidized jobs are included. Service providers include five Workforce Service Areas, five community action agencies, three counties, two national sponsors, and one Native American tribe. Program operations are subgranted to 15 local agencies that serve workers in 60 counties throughout the state; remaining counties are served by national sponsors.

Measures - Reporting period is state fiscal year (SFY), July 1 - June 30

Funding Source and Expenditure (in thousands)

Statutory Authority
-- Title V of the Federal Older Americans Act of 1965, Public Law 106-501 as amended by the Comprehensive Older Americans Act of 2000; U.S. Code, Chap. 42, Sec. 3056

Contact Information
Taryn Galehdari, Program Specialist
Phone: 651.259.7540; TTY: 651.296.3900

This information current as of January 2010.