The Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP) is a federally funded activity which offers
part-time Training for economically disadvantaged adults.
Title V of the Older
Americans Act of 1965 as amended by the Comprehensive Older Americans Act of
1978 (Public Law 95-478). Amended by
Public Law 102-375.
Ss 9983 GC as amended
by P.L. 15-142 and Public Law 16-109.
Participant
Eligibility
1. Must be 55 years or
older.
2. Must meet low-income
guidelines.
Required Documents to Determine Eligibility
- Birth Certificate,
I D card, Passport or permanent resident card (green card)
- Driver's License
- Original Social
Security card
- Copy of filed
______ Income Tax Form (1040)
- Social Security
annuity statement
- Pension: Civil Service or GOVGUAM
- Check stubs from
employer, six (6) months prior to application and check stubs of all wage
earners living in the same household.
- If self-employed,
GROSS RECEIPT (minus operating expenses) twelve (12) months prior to application.
- Mayor's
Certification (must include all household members)
- Public Assistance
documents (if applicable).
SCSEP is an acronym for Senior Community Service Employment Program. The SCSEP grew out of the older workers component of Operation Mainstream, a pilot project established in 1965 under Title II of the Economic Opportunity Act. Operation Mainstream provided job opportunities for chronically unemployed, poor adults. In 1973, the older worker component of Operation Mainstream was converted from a Pilot project to an ongoing program, (SCSEP) under the Older Americans Comprehensive Service Amendments. The 1978 Comprehensive Older American Act Amendments re designated the SCSEP as Title V of the Older Americans Act.
The focus of the SCSEP
is to foster and promote useful part-time opportunities in community service
activities for persons with low incomes who are fifty-five years old or older,
who have poor employment prospects and have the greatest economic needed. Community service means social, health,
welfare, and educational services (particularly literacy tutoring), legal and
other counseling services and assistance, including tax counseling and
assistance and financial counseling, and library, recreational, and other
similar services; conservation, maintenance, or restoration of natural
resources; community betterment or beautification; antipollution and
environmental quality efforts; weatherization activities; economic development;
and such other services essential and necessary to the community as the
Secretary, by regulation, may prescribe.
DOWP
is the abbreviation for the Division of Older Worker Programs located in
Washington, D.C. DOWP is a Division of the Office of National Programs
(ONP). ONP is an office of the Office
of Job Training Programs, which reports to the Secretary, U.S. Department of
Labor.
The
mission of DOWP is to design, develop and administer Senior Community Service
Employment Programs (SCSEP) operated by eligible state units on aging and ten
national public and private agencies or organizations, known as grantees. DOWP relates to grantees through the
following functions.
For more information,
please contact SCSEP office at (671) 475-7010. Email at
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