Senior Community Service Employment Program
The National Indian Council on Aging’s (NICOA) Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP)‘s mission is to provide opportunity for low-income elders through paid training, meaningful community service and skills development. The videos below describe the program and highlight the resiliency and success of real SCSEP participants who are living proof of the value this program has on these elders, their communities and employers.
Lynn Wise, program manager for NICOA’s North Dakota SCSEP, explains the program and its advantages.
Cindy Haderlie had retired from working in human services but decided that she wasn’t quite ready to retire emotionally or financially. She talks about the connections she’s made working at various host agencies. Lynn Wise, program manager of SCSEP North Dakota, talks about the program, who it benefits and how, and why she herself was a participant.
At the National Indian Council on Aging, we help elders find work, develop new skills and talents, and build their financial security by taking advantage of the Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP). SCSEP is an on-the-job training and employment program designed to help those age 55 and older update their jobs skills, build work experience and confidence, and continue to have economic security and well-being.
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Voiced: By Cindy Haderlie
Recorded: By KDIX
At the National Indian Council on Aging, we help elders find work, develop new skills and talents, and build their financial security by taking advantage of the Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP). SCSEP is an on-the-job training and employment program designed to help those age 55 and older update their jobs skills, build work experience and confidence, and continue to have economic security and well-being.
Created: By Midco
Voiced: By Cindy Haderlie
Recorded: By KDIX
Engage with your workforce directly, even when they’re on the go, without access to a desk, computer or even an email address. To access the National Indian Council on Aging (NICOA) portal, text NICOA to 56512.
Former Senior Community Service Employment Program participant and current Salvation Army Red Shield Kitchen employee Patricia Harrison talks about how the National Indian Council on Aging’s SCSEP changed her life.
Former Senior Community Service Employment Program participant and current Salvation Army employee John Hairston shares his experience with the National Indian Council on Aging’s program.
Kathy Brito has worked in various capacities all her life. As an elder now, she describes the discrimination she experiences in spite of being an accomplished and dedicated worker. She credits the National Indian Council on Aging’s Senior Community Service Employment Program as the answer to her prayers, and is now developing new job skills to continue working as an elder.
Ms. Garcia tells the story of her upbringing with her family on the Santa Domingo Pueblo of New Mexico, the rich cultural traditions that influenced her career as a professional nurse, and the current chapter of her life — learning new job skills through the National Indian Council on Aging’s Senior Community Service Employment Program and what this means for her.
