Serving Job Seekers: Library and Workforce System Partnerships That Work
Please Join Us!
Wednesday,
November 6
2:00-3:00 p.m. Eastern
Presenters representing both workforce agencies and libraries will share their hands on experiences with initiating and sustaining partnerships. Learn about additional public and private partnerships, and how you can achieve similar results in your community.
|
|
2:00-3:00 p.m. Eastern
Ever wonder what's going on in Tallahassee? What do those Bureau of Library Development consultants do all day? Spend an hour with your favorite consultants and ask all those questions.
|
Stay Informed:
E-Government in Florida Public Libraries
Tuesday, December 10
2:00-3:00 p.m. Eastern
Join Pam Thompson for an online discussion of E-Government services in Florida libraries.
|
Webinar Recordings
Did you miss the Project Connect: Remployment Assistance webinar?
You can access archived recordings of this and other webinars.
|
|
|
|
Greetings!
Florida has more senior citizens than any other state. This month's newsletter focuses on some of the tools and information resources your senior patrons can use, including those looking for employment or starting their own businesses.
Pam Thompson
850.245.6633
|
|
Florida Agency Resources for Seniors
Whether your library is trying to locate programming for your senior patrons, or just information sources, there are many state agencies that have resources dedicated to seniors citizens.
Florida Department of Elder Affairs is the primary state agency administering human services programs to benefit Florida's elders. Through their website, your patrons can find programs, services, and current initiatives.
Florida's seniors are inundated with investment offers, charitable requests, and are often targeted for fraudulent opportunities. Florida's Chief Financial Officer's website, On Guard for Seniors, provides information your senior patrons can use to ask the right questions and make sound financial decisions.
|
Employ Florida Marketplace-Silver Edition
Florida's online career resource for the age 50+ demographic, Employ Florida Marketplace-Silver Edition, was created to address the mutual needs of Florida businesses, organizations, and Florida jobseekers over the age of 50. The website provides useful information to older, retirement-age job seekers who wish to remain in, or return to, the workforce. |
Senior Community Service  Employment Program
The SCSEP is a program administered by the U.S. Department of Labor that serves low income persons who are 55 or older, and have poor employment prospects. SCSEP enhances employment opportunities for unemployed older Americans, and promotes them as a solution for businesses seeking trained, qualified, and reliable employees.
Eligible individuals are placed in part time community service positions with a goal of transitioning to unsubsidized employment.
|
Experience Works
Experience Works helps low income seniors with multiple barriers to employment, get the training they need to find good jobs in their local communities.
Experience Works is a national, charitable, community based organization. Beginning as a small, rural demonstration program, Experience Works has grown to be one of the nations's leading providers of training, employment, and community service for low income older people.
Your patrons can learn more about resources available in Florida by contacting their local Experience Works offices.
|
AARP Work and Retirement
Your senior patrons looking for a job or contemplating, "what's net?" can visit the American Association of Retired Persons' (AARP) work and retirement site for job hunting resources and encore career advice.
Patrons can also view AARP's tips for job hunting, starting a business, or they can use the Find a Job tool to search through thousands of job sites.
|
Encore.org
Encore.org provides free, comprehensive information that helps individuals transition to jobs in the nonprofit world and public sector.
The organization's Encore Careers campaign aims to engage millions of baby boomers in encore careers, providing personal fulfillment doing paid work, while producing a windfall of talent to solve society's greatest problems.
With a focus on the public's well being, engaging workers over 55 in encore careers will be vital to meeting workforce shortages and critical social needs.
While Encore.org is not a job placement service, it provides information that can help your patrons transition to jobs in the nonprofit world and the public sector.
|
 50+ Entrepreneurs
A growing number of individuals over the age of 50 are turning to small business ownership. The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) call them "50+ entrepreneurs."
Whether your patrons are interested in starting a small business right away, or intend to wait until retirement, SBA has a number of resources and tools to help encore entrepreneurs effectively prepare for starting and running a small business, including business planning, mentoring, and where to find financial assistance as well the key provisions of the Affordable Care Act that will impact small businesses.
Encore Entrepreneurs: An Introduction to Starting Your Own Business is a free, online course to help patrons planning to start a business after earlier careers.
|
|
Can You Help?
 Does your library have programming or resources geared toward your senior patrons? Share your experiences in providing these resources with other libraries by emailing Pam Thompson, or calling 850.245.6633. |
|
|
|
This program is made possible by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, administered by the Florida Department of State's Division of Library and Information Services. |
|
|
