What’s New

• RSVP Online Resource Guide - This is the first phase of an online resource guide created to consolidate tools, training, and technical assistance in preparation for RSVP re-competition.
• The Boomers Are Here!: A Station Training Toolkit including, ten learning activities with self-assessments and worksheets Senior Corps programs can use to help their community partners more effectively engage boomer volunteers.
• Medicaid Home and Community-Based Waivers: A Guide for Senior Companion and Foster Grandparent Programs - This updated guide includes a current List of SCP Projects with Medicaid Waiver Contracts.
• The 2008 Senior Corps Conference Session Catalog and materials
• More to Give – Tapping the talents of the Baby Boomer, Silent, and Greatest Generations - a report from Civic Enterprises, LLC finding that tens of millions of Baby Boomers appear ready to increase their civic participation in retirement.
• Independent Living Training Curriculum This training curriculum and the accompanying facilitator’s guide can be used to enhance the services delivered to independent living clients by Senior Companion and RSVP volunteers.
• VolunteerMatch Resource Guide (PDF) The VolunteerMatch User’s Guide and Training Manual (approx 45 pages) provides an overview of using the VolunteerMatch system, step-by-step guidelines on how to improve volunteer recruitment, and information on research and trends related to recruiting volunteers ages 55 and over.
• List of Senior Corps Program Websites in the Field

What’s Essential - Program and Grant Management Tools

• Senior Corps Grant Application 2008 - 2011
• nssctalk e-mail discussion group – official vehicle for Corporation announcements and a great place to connect with your colleagues
• Program regulations and grant management resources from the Corporation
• Preparing the Grant Budget for Senior Corps Programs (online course)
• Performance measurement resources from Project STAR
• Senior Corps Fund Raising and OMB Cost Principles

What’s Innovative

• Brokering collaborations to include seniors in service-learning

Operations Handbooks: 2008-2010 handbooks and appendices

• Senior Corps Operations Handbooks FY 2010 Annual Supplement-This supplement applies to all three Senior Corps programs and takes the place of field guidance.
• Foster Grandparent Program Operations Handbook and Appendices
• Senior Companion Program Operations Handbook and Appendices
• Retired and Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) Operations Handbook and Appendices

Training Resources

• Planning Annual FGP In-service Training (PDF)
• Early childhood training videos from the Resource Center lending library
  These videos are useful for training and development of Foster Grandparents, caregivers, parents, and others who interact with young children.
• Senior health and caregiver videos from the Resource Center lending library
  These videos are often used by Senior Companion Programs and other Senior Corps programs for in-service training, but they are also useful to any national service program that involves seniors.
• What Would You Do? Senior Companion Training Session One

Recruitment Resources

• New Senior Corps Marketing Materials for 2008 that drive readers to the GetInvolved.gov website:
   - Brochures: In English and Spanish for RSVP, Foster Grandparents, and Senior Companions
   - Video: Includes individual sections on RSVP, Foster Grandparents, and Senior Companions.
   - Fact Sheet: Includes key information about Senior Corps as a whole and each of the individual programs.
   - Exhibits: New exhibits for each of the three programs, in free-standing or tabletop format.
  The materials can be backordered from www.nationalservicepubs.org.and most of them (including the videos) are also available electronically in the Marketing Resources section of the Get Involved site.
• Senior Corps recruitment and orientation videos from the Resource Center lending library
• Boomer recruitment
• Appealing to Experience: Zeroing in On the Right Message