Located in:
- Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP)
At minimum, in the SCSEP stand-alone submission and the SCSEP portion of the Combined State Plan, States should comprehensively cover the following elements.
- b. Service Delivery and Coordination
States must:
- 1. Provide a Description of Actions to Coordinate Scsep with Other Programs
This may alternatively be discussed in the State strategies section of the strategic plan, but regardless of placement in document, must include:
- 1. Provide a Description of Actions to Coordinate Scsep with Other Programs
- b. Service Delivery and Coordination
b. 1. C. Actions to Coordinate Scsep with Other Private and Public Entities and Programs That Provide Services to Older Americans, Such as Community and Faith-based Organizations, Transportation Programs, and Programs for Those with Special Needs or Disabilities. (20 Cfr 641.302(i))
Current Narrative:
Commitment to full access of services for persons with disabilities is mirrored at the State level. The Colorado Department of Labor and Employment (CDLE) and Colorado SCSEP have a long–standing interagency agreement with the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation (DVR) and work closely with DVR on projects such as planning, job development and placement, training, WOTC, and job fairs targeting persons with disabilities. CDLE is a member of the Interagency Consortium and Stakeholders Policy Forum created as a result of Project WIN (Workforce Incentive Network), a multi–year systems change project to identify and develop strategies to remove barriers to employment for persons with disabilities. Several WFCs are involved in Project WIN’s "consumer navigator" project.
Colorado abides by, and follows, the Charitable Choice philosophy. The provision in the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) enacted in 1996, and its later revisions, allows the opportunity to contract and work directly with faith–based and community–based organizations. Additionally, it allows these organizations to work with workforce clients who are in need of services.
Over the past four years, Colorado has actively participated in the identification, recruitment, education, and training of faith–based and community–based organizations in order to build better partnerships with WFCs. Thus far, Colorado has been successful using Charitable Choice to partner with faith–based and community–based organizations in helping to serve Colorado’s workforce clients.
Colorado State sub–grantees maximize WFCs’ ability to serve SCSEP clients, as well as expand and enhance services by utilizing websites that provide comprehensive tools for FBOs/CBOs. The WFCs have assembled a list of service providers in Colorado in the form of an on–line catalogue. The catalogue has the capacity to search for 50 specific services by region and provider, and currently contains over 800 providers.