Located in:
- Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP)
(OMB Control No. 1205-0040)
b. 4. A list of community services that are needed and the places where these services are most needed. Specifically, the plan must address the needs and location of those individuals most in need of community services and the groups working to meet their needs. (20 CFR 641.330)
Current Narrative:
SCSEP has a two-fold approach: helping Older Americans reacclimate themselves back into the workforce with the skills and training needed to be more marketable in the workforce while also helping the communities that the program operates in. The participant training hours support social services and other services provided in communities throughout the State.
West Virginia’s top occupations per the West Virginia Workforce, Labor Market Information (LMI) 10-year projections of high demand occupations that require minimum education that fit our SCSEP participants’ education and training levels include the following:
- • Bus Drivers, Transit and Intercity
- • Customer Service Clerks
- • Social and Human Service Assistants
- • Community Health Workers
- • Animal Caretakers
- • Post-Secondary School
- • Personal Care Aides
- • Home Health Aides
- • Rehabilitation
- • Janitors
- • Counter Attendants
With these projections, Host Agency (H.A.) training site recruitment will focus more on entities that will develop skills for these high demand jobs. Also, to ensure that SCSEP’s two-fold approach is being accomplished, local SCSEP projects will continue to research nonprofits, religious organizations and Government agencies in the counties that are covered to assess if there is a need. Recruitment of entities such as the West Virginia Department of Agriculture where they have programs such as Veterans and Warriors to Agriculture and Rural Rehabilitation programs that need participants will be utilized.
Recruiting of Host Agencies (H.A.) is currently accomplished by relationships with past and current H.A., great rapport with the American Job Centers (AJC’S), attending meetings, community events, job fairs, health fairs and presenting on behalf of SCSEP. Other avenues of recruitment include marketing campaigns, where Project Directors market SCSEP services and the skills of job ready participants to organizations. Word of mouth is also utilized to recruit host agencies.
Local SCSEP projects will continue to utilize Senior Centers, Aging & Disability Resource Centers (ADRN), OAA programs, AJC’s, and one-stop partners to determine the need in the counties and will continuously refine the strategy for job development to guide employer outreach and participant readiness. The WV Statewide SCSEP network will also continue to have a virtual Page 529 training presence to utilize in the event a training site is shut down due to circumstances at hand