Title V/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 older 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 per 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
- Such other services essential and necessary to the community as the Secretary of the Department of Labor, by regulation, may prescribe.
Statewide SCSEP Program Coordinator
Department of Human Services
Seniors and People with Disabilities
676 Church Street, 2nd floor
Salem, OR 97301
Joyce Phelps
OAA/OPI/SCSEP Program Coordinator
Phone: (503) 373-7612
Fax: (503) 373-1133
Email: joyce.l.phelps@state.or.us
Oregon SCSEP Sub-Projects:
SMS Services
2101 NE Flanders Street
Portland, OR 97232
Phone: (503) 232-7684; Fax: (503) 232-2230
Project Director: Marietta Schlumpf
Email: mariettas@sms1.org
Covers: Multnomah and Washington Counties
Community Solutions for Clackamas County
112 11th Street
Oregon City, OR 97045
Main phone: (503) 655-8840; Fax: (503) 655-8841
Web site: http://www.co.clackamas.or.us/cscc/
Manager: Lori Mack
SCSEP Contact: Tammie Matson and Brian Nease
Phone: (503) 655-8748
Email: tammiematson@co.clackamas.or.us or briannea@co.clackamas.or.us
Covers: Clackamas County
Mid-Columbia Council of Governments
1113 Kelley Avenue
The Dalles, OR 97058-2767
Phone: (541) 298-4101; Fax: (541) 298-2084
Web site: http://www.mccog.com/
Program Manager: Martin Miller
SCSEP Contact: Roxie Hunter
Email: roxieh@mccog.com
Covers: Wasco, Sherman, Gilliam, and Wheeler Counties
Experience Works (for Central Oregon)
Kristan Joseph
2158 SE College Loop, Suite B
Redmond, OR 97756
Phone: (541) 548-8196 x332
Email: kristan_joseph@experienceworks.org
Klamath Lake Employment and Training Institute
1940 S. 6th Street
Klamath Falls, OR 97601
Phone: (541) 850-9675;
Director: Barry Faganello
SCSEP Contact: Paula Pence, Training/Grants Manager
Email: paula.pence@workconnection.org
Covers: Klamath & Lake Counties
Community Action Program of East Central Oregon
721 SE Third Street, Suite D
Pendleton, OR 97801
Phone: (800) 752-1139; Fax: (541) 276-7541
Web site: http://www.capeco-works.org/workforce.html
Title V Director: Debra Hayward
Email: dhaywardl@capeco-works.org
SCSEP Contact: Scot Jacobson - Program Director
Email: sjacobson@capeco-works.org
Covers: Umatilla and Morrow Counties
Training and Employment Consortium
P.O. Box 2979
La Grande, OR 97850
Administrative Manger: Karen Ludwig
Email: ludwigk@tecteam.org
Director, Region 13 (Wallowa, Union, & Baker Counties): Teri Simonis
Email: simot@tecteam.org
Director, Region 14 (Malheur, Harney & Grant Counties): Chad Freeman
Email: freec@tecteam.org
Other resources
- For counties not listed as being served by a State of Oregon Subproject listed above, there may be a SCSEP national provider in your area. If you live in a county that is not listed above and would like more information on the SCSEP program in your area, contact the state program coordinator at (503) 373-1762 or by email at joyce.l.phelps@state.or.us or visit your local One Stop Center to inquire about the availability of the SCSEP program.
- You may also contact the national providers operating in Oregon:
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