Territorial Administration On Aging

Territorial Administration On Aging, a tax-exempt nonprofit organization based in Tafuna, American Samoa, operates as a prime recipient of federal grants focused on senior employment and workforce development, with no federal contract prime footprint. The organization serves exclusively as a grant recipient across two federal customer agencies and holds 32 prime federal grant awards with combined dollars obligated at $18.3 million.

Territorial Administration On Aging's federal grant portfolio concentrates on Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP) awards from the Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration, which accounts for eight grants. These SCSEP awards fund part-time community service employment for individuals age 55 and older with household income at or below 125 percent of the federal poverty level, with participants receiving support services, on-the-job training, individual employment plans, and classroom and skills training. Core performance measures track aggregate hours of community service employment, participant placement into unsubsidized employment in the second and fourth quarters after program exit, median earnings of participants in unsubsidized employment, and indicators of effectiveness in serving employers and host agencies. Territorial Administration On Aging also received a Department of Labor supplemental grant dated June 30, 2023, with completion date June 30, 2024, to support IT implementation and transition to the Grantee Performance Management System (GPMS) case management tool for modernizing SCSEP service delivery and data validation. The organization holds recent SCSEP project grants from DOL-ETA with award dates July 1, 2022; July 1, 2023; June 30, 2024; and July 1, 2025, running on program-year cycles (July 1 through June 30).

The Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Community Living and Administration on Aging together account for 24 of the 32 awards. Activity has remained flat at one award annually in 2024 and 2025, following single awards in 2021 and 2022 and two awards in 2023. The organization performs work directly with little to no subrecipient activity across its grant portfolio.