Network Expansion, the Hidden Benefit

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Network Expansion, the Hidden Benefit

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• PathPoint and Meritan
• Innovations Teams venture beyond
• Community Service and Training
• Employment and Self-Sufficiency
• To
• Leadership and Civic Engagement

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Who benefits? We expected our curriculums would
strengthen participant skills and

• Enhance their value to Host Agencies
• Increase their self confidence
• Ultimately make them more employable

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Older Workers Leadership SkillsWorkshops (a
brief overview)

• Rights and Issues affecting older workers
• Effective communication and public speaking

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Overview cont.

• Identifying personal strengths
• Team Building Exercises
• Problem solving consensus building
• Community governance and local issues

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Civic Engagement

• In the ASAs publication Generations, Civic
  Engagement was defined as referring to citizen
  action that has public consequence.

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In learning together, we are discovering
ourselves and fulfilling our mission.

• OWL has led to participants
• Gaining self-confidence
• Attending community workshops, board meetings and
  events

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• Networking with one another outside of HAs and
  OWL meetings
• Being involved and becoming a resource to their
  communities and peers
• Empowerment and developing a sense of ownership
  regarding SCSEP, OWL and their HAs
• .and yes, getting jobs!

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The big surprise has been the unexpected benefit
our innovations grants have had on our respective
agencies and SCSEP in general.
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Innovations projects strengthen the network of
support for older workers by
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Enhancing community awareness

• By being present and participating
• Inviting speakers from other community
  organizations
• Press releases

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Engaging in our communities

• Attending City Council meetings
• Walkathons (as CPC did)
• Voter registration drives
• Attending community workshops

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Information and resource sharing with Host
Agencies

• Inviting Host Agencies to be speakers at
  workshops
• Encouraging participants to be more familiar with
  HA missions

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Creating new alliances with community leaders
and organizations

• Politicians
• Educators
• Civic organizations
• Advocacy groups
• Youth groups

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. The real opportunity is for older people,
themselves, to speak out about what is important
to them. Tony Sarmiento
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If there is a way I can network or help.
Loretta
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You need to have passion for what you believe
in. Milton
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Were not old were just older than we used to
be. Cassandra
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its not about I, its now about we. Evelyn