National Asian Pacific Center On Aging-Napca

NAPCA operates the Senior Environmental Employment (SEE) Program through grant/cooperative agreements awarded by the Environmental Protection Agency. The purpose of the SEE program is to provide an opportunity for retired and unemployed Americans age 55 and over to share their expertise with U.S. EPA, remaining active using their matured skills in meaningful tasks that support a wide variety of federal, state, and local environmental programs. This provides vital support to the mission and goals of the EPA. The assignments range from general administrative to analytical and technical positions such as records, data and information specialists, laboratory and technical assistants and professional level positions. In FY2024, NAPCA worked with approximately 122 SEE enrollees to support their positions in 11 states in the US and the District of Columbia.

NAPCA (1) handled over 6,400 calls in Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean, Vietnamese, and English regarding benefits counseling for Medicare, Medicaid, Affordable Care Act, Social Security, SSI, etc., (2) organized 31 vaccine outreach and benefits education events with 3000+ attendees, and (3) published 7 "Ask NAPCA" columns: 1,180 media outlets with 27,728,000 impressions.