Minnesota WorkForce Center - Willmar
EXPERIENCE WORKS
(formerly Green Thumb)
You are Needed
If you are 55 or older with limited income, Experience Works has training and employment opportunities just right for you. Here's how the Experience Works SCSEP program works:
- To find out if you are eligible to participate in Experience Works Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP), call or write you nearest Experience Works office. In Willmar they are located at the Skylark Mall, Phone 320.222.2100. The State office address is P.O. Box 310, Wadena, MN 56482, Phone 218.631.3483 or 1.800.450.5627
- If you are eligible, Experience Works staff will match your interests and skills with a community service training assignment at an agency located close to where you live.
- Your community service training assignment is designed to help you upgrade current skills, learn new skills and ultimately find employment.
- Participants in the Green Thumb Experience Works program perform a wide variety of community services while receiving training designed to help them find permanent employment. For example, participants care for children and the elderly, tutor students, operate computers, landscape public grounds, teach skilled trades and crafts, and work as librarians, receptionists, and mechanics.
- Experience Works pays you the minimum wage for approximately 20 hours per week while you receive training and work experience through your community service assignment.
- You may also receive education, training, and work experience through a special program that offers on-the-job and classroom training.
- Experience Works National Website
EMPLOYERS
For information on how your business can benefit from experienced, mature workers, call 1.800.450.JOBS
Experience Works may be able to pay a portion of your training costs for qualified applicants based on a percentage of the trainee's hourly wage.
"OLDER WORKERS ARE MORE STABLE, LOYAL, RESPONSIBLE AND ABLE TO SUPERVISE THEMSELVES. OLDER WORKERS HAVE FEWER ACCIDENTS." Harvard Business Review
MN WorkForce Center
2200 23rd Street NE, Suite 2040
Willmar, MN 56201
320.231.5174 or TOLL FREE 1.888.GET.JOBS
Fax: 320.231.6054 TTY: 320.231.5174