Department of Labor and Workforce Development
James G. Neeley, Commissioner

PY 04 Senior Employment Services Coordination Plan

PY 05 Addendum  

SCSEP Equitable Distribution Report 

Boomer Careers

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 over 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 a week of part-time employment in community service assignments
• job training and related educational opportunities
• opportunities for placement into unsubsidized jobs

• 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; and
• such other services essential and necessary to the community as the Secretary of the Department of Labor, by regulation, may prescribe.

• State Contacts - See Below

Upper East TN Human Development Agency 301 Louis Street (37660) PO Box 46 Kingsport, TN 37662-0046 Lois Smith, Executive Director Jackie Sensabaugh, Project Director Carter, Johnson, Sullivan, Washington	East TN Human Resource Agency 911 Cross Park Drive Sutie D100 Knoxville, TN 37923-4517 Gordon Acuff, Executive Director Linda Irick, Project Director Campbell, Claiborne, Morgan, Scott, Union
Upper Cumberland Human Resource Agency 3111 Enterprise Drive   Cookeville, TN 38506  Phyllis Bennett, Executive Director Charles West, Project Director Cumberland, Fentress, Jackson, Macon, Putman, Van Buren	Mid-West Community Service Agency 531 Metroplex Drive Suite A200 Nashville, TN 37211-3140 Beverly Bass, Executive Director Terri Dunn, Project Director Cheatham, Dyer, Henry, Houston, Humphreys,Montgomery, Stewart, Obin, Weakley
Hardeman County Literacy Council 200 Hope Street PO Box 856 Bolivar, TN 38008-0856 Margie Lovelace, Director Ophelia Parks, Project Director Chester, Hardeman, Hardin, McNairy	Meritan, Inc. 4700 Poplar Ave. Memphis, TN 38117-4411 Deborah Cotney, President Casondra Amos, Project Director Shelby