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2007 Changing Lives Award for Outstanding SCSEP Host Agency  Community service agencies play a critical part in helping low-income seniors get training and jobs by providing a wide variety of skills development, training and work experience. Without these powerful partnerships, our Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP) could not provide training to the thousands of mature individuals we assist every year. The Changing Lives Award for Outstanding Community Service Agency is given to the organization that, in that year, best demonstrates a commitment to increasing opportunities for low income older individuals by providing training and acts as a positive role model for other organizations. The Outstanding Community Service Agency is an advocate for seniors and helps Experience Works open doors to the training and hiring of older people with significant barriers to employment.		Awards & Events America's Oldest Worker Wall of Champions Outstanding Older Workers Changing Lives Outstanding SCSEP Participant Changing Lives Outstanding SCSEP Agency Cy Carpenter Award 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004
Appalachian Agency for Senior Citizens This year’s winner of the Changing Lives Award for Outstanding Community Service Agency, the Appalachian Agency for Senior Citizens (AASC), has proven to be an excellent trainer of older people and a role model and advocate for the training and hiring of seniors in their community. This agency puts the interest and needs of seniors in their four county area, first and foremost. AASC is dedicated to providing services that improve the well-being of older adults and their caregivers. They offer more than 25 programs designed to help seniors remain independent and age in place. These programs include services such as adult daycare centers, transportation services, and a variety of health and home care services. AASC  recently was awarded funds to provide comprehensive health care for people with chronic care needs. AACS believes in seniors helping other seniors. About one third of their 150 full-time employees are over the age of 55. But their true power as an Experience Works partner is in their ability to train older workers. They provide in-house computer classes, certified nurses’ assistant training, personal care assistant training, and access to local colleges and businesses. In addition to the training they provide in classroom settings, through on-the-job experiences, many seniors are able to gain valuable clerical, customer-service and office skills at the agency’s various administrative offices. With its many operations in a large multi-county area, AACS has had as many as 25 seniors in training at the same time. These individuals have found jobs as child care aides, adult care aides, transit van drivers, nutrition site managers, cooks and delivery people, just to name a few, and they don’t only train seniors for jobs at other employers in the community. They hire many of the seniors they train. In fact, over the last ten years, more than half of the seniors that received training at the agency, found jobs there as well. The Appalachian Agency for Senior Citizens is also a highly visible advocate for seniors. They participate in “Hire an Older Worker Week”, senior citizens day at county fairs, they operate their own job fairs, and work closely with Virginia rehabilitation services and all their local workforce offices.