1. Avenues to Successfully Recruit Host Agencies
February 25, 2009

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9. Presenter:
Joyce Welsh,
AgeWise Solutions
Moderator:
Judith Gilbert,
SCSEP National Office

10. Are you satisfied with your host agencies?
Assessing your needs
Are you satisfied with your
host agencies?
Have you assessed your need for host agencies?

11. Assessing your needs
Participants first!
Host agencies develop participant skills
Host agencies do not “own” slots or have “positions to be filled”

12. Assessing your needs
Four strengths of host agencies:
Offer high-quality training or provide important community service
Assist with job search through local contacts
Provide a supportive environment
Have the ability to hire

13. Finding host agencies
501(c)3 organizations or public agencies
(lower right-hand side, under “Government Agencies”)

14. What do host agencies value?
Making your pitch
What do host agencies value?
What are their hesitations?
What benefits do you provide?
What barriers exist?

15. Maintenance of effort
Goal of SCSEP assignments:
Expand or create new services
Supplement, not supplant

16. Are in addition to budgeted employment
Maintenance of effort
According to the OAA 2006 Amendments*, assignments…
Are in addition to budgeted employment
Should result in an increase in services
*PL , Title V, Sec. 502(b)(1)(G)

17. Maintenance of effort
Must not reduce number of employment opportunities available to non- participants
Must not impair existing contracts or substitute federal funds for other funds

18. Maintenance of effort
Must not displace currently employed workers, including partial displacement
Must not perform the same, or substantially the same, work which was performed by a person on layoff

19. Maintenance of effort
Have decision-making strategies in place
Failure to comply with MOE standards may result in disallowed costs

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