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Senior Community Service Employment Program

The Community Service Employment for Older Americans program provides grants to public and private non-profit organizations, and States to provide training and to hire older low-income people part-time to perform community service.

Rating

What This Rating Means

NOT PERFORMING
Ineffective

Programs receiving this rating are not using your tax dollars effectively. Ineffective programs have been unable to achieve results due to a lack of clarity regarding the program's purpose or goals, poor management, or some other significant weakness.
  • Grantees have not been selected through a competitive process that considers performance. Historically, the program's 10 national grantees have been the sole recipients of grant funds, regardless of performance. Competition would help strengthen service delivery and open the door to new grantees, including faith-based and community based organizations.
  • Improvements to performance measures needed. Until recently, the program did not have measures of employment, retention, and earnings to assess the impact on program participants.
  • Updates to performance reporting systems needed. The program did not have a grantee reporting system to capture important outcome data on employment, retention, and earnings which would aid in assessing program impact.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Continuing to strengthen program accountability through common performance measures, including developing a new measure to gauge cost-effectiveness.
  • Publishing a proposed rule to implement the 2006 OAA amendments.
  • Adopting efficiency measures that are linked to performance outcomes, account for all costs, and facilitate comparisons across Department of Labor training and employment programs.

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