Center for Civic Partnerships

Healthy Aging

Employment

Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA)
Federal law provides protection for individuals who are 40 years of age or older from employment discrimination based on age, protections apply to both employees and job applicants. Under the ADEA, it is unlawful to discriminate against a person because of his/her age with respect to any term, condition, or privilege of employment, including hiring, firing, promotion, layoff, compensation, benefits, job assignments, and training.

California Elder Economic Security Initiative (EESI)
The Insight Center's California Elder Economic Security Initiative program (Cal-EESI) is a statewide, research-driven initiative at the forefront of a national effort to ensure that older Californians can age with dignity and economic well-being, and the Workforce Development program facilitates the creation of good jobs for all workers, strong industries that support vital communities, and an inclusive economy that helps low-income individuals become economically secure.

California Employment Development Department
Provides a comprehensive range of employment and training services in partnership with state and local agencies and organizations, and these services are provided statewide through a One-Stop Career Center system or EDD Workforce Services Offices, to benefit job seekers, laid off workers, youth, individuals currently working, veterans, people with disabilities, and employers.

Center on Aging and Work
Focuses on flexible work options representing an innovative response to the aging workforce, also promotes research examining employers’ adoption of flexible work options, their implementation in the workplace, and their utilization by older workers.

Center on Education and Training for Employment
The Ohio State University-based research and development center, engages with state, national, and international clients from education, governmental agencies, organized labor, and public and private entities to access to the foremost authorities on workforce development for program policy and research purposes, also provides technical assistance and training on work force development issues.

Civic Ventures
Through an inventive program portfolio, original research, strategic alliances, and the power of people´s own life stories, Civic Ventures demonstrates the value of experience in solving serious social problems – from education to the environment and health care to homelessness.

Experience Works
A national, charitable, community-based organization that helps seniors get the training they need to find good jobs in their communities, with a goal to helping people break out of poverty and reclaim their lives and dignity through work.

John J. Heldrich Center on Workforce Development
Located at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, the Center is a university-based research and policy center dedicated to raising the effectiveness of the American workplace by strengthening workforce education, placement and training programs and policies, and concentrates on both nurturing concrete innovations in workforce practices, as well as addressing broad-scale economic policy changes that ensure Americans receive the education and training they need to be productive and prosperous in the knowledge economy of the 21st century.

National Older Worker Career Center
The Center brings together experienced workers and organizations seeking support, to ensure that older workers can continue to contribute their skills and knowledge, and helps those who are seeking employment, in need of skilled help, or carrying out workforce planning to respond to changing demographics.

Retired Brains
A job and information source for retirees and people planning their retirement, older boomers, seniors, retirees and those about to retire who are looking to find jobs, volunteer opportunities, educational resources and retirement information.

SER (Service Employment Redevelopment) Jobs for Progress National
A national, private, nonprofit organization making a positive impact on families across America by addressing the needs of economically challenged individuals in education, job skills training, literacy and employment, with the ultimate goal of placing program participants into permanent, unsubsidized, and productive employment.

Too Young to Retire
A motivational speaking and coaching practice designed to help mature people skip retirement, and discover their own later life callings and passions.

Urban Institute
The Institute gathers data, conducts research, evaluates programs, offers technical assistance overseas, and educates Americans on social and economic issues — to foster sound public policy and effective government.

Workplace Accommodations
Identifies, develops and promotes new assistive and universally designed technologies that maximize independence and participation of people with disabilities in the workplace through the use of universal design concepts -- the design of products and environments to be usable by all workers, to the greatest extent possible, without the need for adaptation or specialized design.