Older Worker Program (SCSEP)
The University of Louisiana at Monroe's Older Worker Program — Senior Community Service
Employment Project (SCSEP) — provides free employment and training services to eligible,
limited income persons age 55 or older.
The eleven parishes SCSEP is authorized to serve are Caldwell, Catahoula, Concordia,
East Carroll, Franklin, Madison, Morehouse, Ouachita, Richland, Tensas and West Carroll.
ULM – SCSEP specializes in recruiting, assessing, and referring senior workers to
the right jobs and employers. These factors produce very satisfactory performance
goals each year.
Sponsored by the National Council on Aging (NCOA), and federally, grant funded by
U.S. Department of Labor, Title V of the Older Americans Act, SCSEP provides temporary
work experience initiatives by assigning enrollees/trainees to public or non-profit
host agencies where they obtain skills relative to their job descriptions prior to
unsubsidized employment.
These employees are paid through SCSEP grant funds for twenty (20) hours per week
at current minimum wage of $7.25 per hour. Congress has authorized 95 equitable distribution
slots whereby enrollees may be assigned to eligible host agencies.
ULM administers the SCSEP grant program activities. SCSEP statistical and financial
reports are submitted to ULM for approval and processing. ULM's Controller bills
NCOA for reimbursement of SCSEP enrollees’ wages/fringes, plus staff salaries/fringes
and program expenditures on a monthly basis.
SCSEP offices are located at:
ULM Older Worker Program
600 Cole Avenue (Physical Address)
Monroe, LA 71203
Toll Free: 1-800-256-1493
ULM Older Worker Program
Stubbs Hall 103 (Mailing Address)
700 University Avenue
Monroe, LA 71209
Toll Free: 1-800-256-1493
