Experience Works recently released an executive summary entitled “Overlooked and Underserved 
.” The summary does a fantastic job of breaking down aspects of the 55+ unemployment issues. The survey was taken through the auspices of the Senior Community Employment Program (SCSEP). An alarming 46% of the 2,072 randomly selected SCSEP clients had been looking for work for a year and were in danger of losing their living quarters. Other topics covered in the survey are as follows:
- Long term work plans
- Reasons for working
- Length of job search
- Obstacles to employment
- Need for training
- Employers’ needs
- Value of older workers
Illinois workNet addresses many of these topics. Please find them at the following pages:
Site Management Update: The new Illinois workNet partnership request feature is available.
Highlights include:
Interactive format: Site information collection fields are presented to the person based on how they answered previous questions.
This means:
• Dissemination sites are not required to answer questions that do not apply to that site type.
• The system will determine if the site is an access site or dissemination site.
Site information is stored directly into the site management database.
This means:
• Time is saved since there is not a duplication of effort with collecting the information and then manually entering the information.
• LWIA coordinators are notified of new partnership requests and can approve or decline the request.
Site information is not limited to one person entering the information.
This means:
• Sites can submit their location partnership request online.
1. Go to www.illinoisworkNet.com 
and click on Workforce Professionals Pathway Enter Here.
2. Click here to learn more about becoming a partner and submitting your partnership request.
3. Review the information and submit Illinois workNet partnership requests online.
• LWIA Manager/Coordinator can enter information directly into the database.
• WIA funded sites are entered into the database from IWDS and LWIA manager/coordinators update the remaining fields.
One person can be the primary contact for multiple locations.
This means:
• The primary contact can receive emails notices for specific locations.
• One person can view and complete quarterly reports for multiple locations without seeing quarterly reports for the entire LWIA. (The person still must have the role of Organization Administrator.) View updated instructions located on the Quarterly Report page in the Illinois workNet Workforce Professionals Pathway