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:
- b. Service Delivery and Coordination
b. 2. Describe the Long-term Strategy for Engaging Employers to Develop and Promote Opportunities for the Placement of Scsep Participants in Unsubsidized Employment. (20 Cfr 641.302(e)) (alternately, the State May Discuss This in the State Strategies Section of Strategic Plan if Submitting a Combined Plan.)
Current Narrative:
The State supports business services efforts through marketing grants and discretionary grants focused on services benefiting employers and delivered through partnerships with the business community.
State leadership makes efforts to create new ways of engaging business through collaborative public/private partnerships that utilize technology to resolve critical labor market shortages and deficiencies. State workforce and labor market professionals must work with business to identify the additional skill sets needed in the future and to identify the foundational skills needed to acquire those skills. Additionally, there is a critical need for industry, workforce, and economic development organizations to work together to strengthen the ability and responsiveness of higher education to develop training that meets real time needs of high growth/high demand industries. Finally, there is a need to continue the development of a comprehensive demand–driven system that will provide all Coloradans the opportunity to engage in productive work.
Training a project job developer can increase SCSEP project’s unsubsidized placement rates. Some activities for job developers are:
- Accessing local labor market information – Using Workforce Centers, regional community colleges, the chamber of commerce, labor unions, etc.;
- Setting up job banks – Obtaining listings from Workforce Centers, Connecting Colorado (the state’s on–line job bank), and local newspapers;
- Participating in job clubs; Assisting job club leader in job search activities;
- Developing systems to inform enrollees of job openings – Putting notices in with pay checks, call enrollees at host agencies, request enrollees to come into the project office for face–to–face discussions; and
- Contacting local employers.
SCSEP staff make use of the Labor Market Information (LMI), which is an important feature of the One–Stop Career Center System. Through America’s Labor Market Information System (ALMIS), job seekers will have access to a database containing information about over ten million employers throughout the country.