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. 5. Describe the Long-term Strategy to Improve Scsep Services, Including Planned Long-term Changes to the Design of the Program Within the State, and Planned Changes in the Use of Scsep Grantees and Program Operators to Better Achieve the Goals of the Program. This May Include Recommendations to the Department as Appropriate. (20 Cfr 641.302(k))
Current Narrative:
The ratio of eligible individuals in each of the service areas to the total eligible population in Minnesota in determined by the job demand relative to current employment levels and the ratio of available claimants to job vacancies, serve as indicator to possible occupationally associated skill gaps and their level of demand. The table in VII.c.1 is a snapshot of what is happening for each of the counties in Minnesota.
The total number of older adults (age 55-plus is anticipated to double between 2010 and 2030, rising to 1.3 million. By then, more than one in five Minnesotans will be an older adult.
Currently, one in seven Minnesotans age 65 and older lives in poverty and over half of them (38,463 are women. While the labor force participation rate of men age 55-plus will continue to exceed that of women during the current decade, most of the increases in labor force participant of this age group will come from women.