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Senior Employment Training |
The Senior Employment Training Program (SET) provides low income individuals over the age of 55 temporary work in nonprofit or governmental agencies while receiving on-the-job training in order to enter the private workforce. Participants are paid minimum wage for at least twenty hours per week. Household income is a primary consideration to qualify for the program. This includes Social Security, pensions, interest, dividends, alimony, rental income, etc. Applicants must document these items.
The mission of the Senior Employment Program is to enable older adults to achieve gainful employment and personal development through their participation in community service and training. “Our participants are conscientious workers. They have a strong work ethic. They show up on time everyday. They also seem to display a high degree of loyalty to their jobs. As a manager, those are qualities I value in an employee.” says the Program Manager.
THE PEOPLE WE SERVEThe older man or woman working in the Senior Employment Training Program (SET) typically subsists solely on Social Security.
About 75% of the applicants to the program are women in their 60s and 70s,often widowed or divorced, who must rejoin the work force out of financial need. Some have never worked and start with few marketable skills. Most feel that there is little chance for employment due to age discrimination and/or lack of job skills and experience. However, according to one participant, “The SET Program paid for my course in computer training, something I could never afford on my own. I learned so much from the course and my assignment that I’ve been hired as a clerk at the local library.”
Main Office
2200 Garden Road
Monterey, CA 93940
Monterey: 831-655-1334
Salinas/So. County: 831-758-4011
Related Links:
Digital Inclusion Project (beginning computer training)