Supervisor: Kip Colgrove; Contact: Jan Wallace; Hours: Monday- Wednesday 8:30 a.m.- 4:30 p.m.

Mission Or Objective:
Experience Works' mission is to improve the quality of life of all Americans by using and developing the talents and skills of older individuals through training, employment, and community service.

Overview:
Experience Works is the nation's oldest and largest employment and training program for older Americans. Annually provides training, employment, and community service opportunities to seniors. The purpose is to empower an expanding older population by anticipating their needs and developing programs and services to meet them. They tutor students, teach skilled trades and crafts, provide home health and day care, prepare and deliver meals for homebound people, care for the disabled, operate computers, and work as clerks, mechanics, and manual laborers.

Participants are assigned to either work part-time for a qualified government or nonprofit organization, called a host agency, or to appropriate training. While participants receive training, supervision, and work experience directly from their host agencies, their wages are paid by Experience Works, INC.

Participants are provided with training, work experience, educational opportunities, counseling, and information that will help them find and keep a job. Experience Works' ultimate goal is to help all participants improve their lives by obtaining employment.

This is a Title V program for people over 55 years old who are returning to the work force. The intent of the program is to improve the social and economic condition of older Americans by promoting employment and training opportunities for older workers, and to provide essential community services.

Eligibility: A Participant is an individual who is 55 years of age or older, eligible to work in the United States, resident of the state where he or she is enrolled and the participant's annual family income must not be more than 125 percent of the established federal poverty income guidelines; Fees: No charge (free service); Limitations: Covers 13 counties - call for information on which ones.

Revised Date: 11/13/07