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Within the Health Institute, youth develop a healthy living lifestyle. Youth engage in 30 minutes of daily exercise during recreation time. During life skills classes, we engage youth in interactive activities that teach them about good nutrition and how to cook healthy food. To promote exercise, students have access to sports classes on -site. We also have quarterly trips to go hiking,camping, or other recreational activities. In addition, we host health workshops on the benefits of nutritious food, oral health, germ -spread prevention, and living an active lifestyle. We hold monthly parent meetings to teach parents about the school system, benefits of higher education, best practices to support their children's education, preventive health, and technology use. We refer them to ESL classes, job opportunities at Santa Ana WORK Center, and community resources. We provide opportunities for them to become actively involved in PAYP activities and encourage them to participate in school functions. Because we understand that communicating and working with parents is vital to their children's success, our are highly accessible to parents. We are able to run our monthly parent meetings in multiple languages to cater to the different needs of our clients. Enroll youth, age 6-18, in our Plan Ahead Youth Program's Academic, Leadership, Career and Health Institutes. 80% of youth will achieve successful outcomes. Students are successful if they meet 2 or more of our outcome measurements such as increasing their GPA, maintaining 3.0 or higher GPA or equivalent Santa Ana Unified School District's specified benchmarks, increasing scores on workshop post-tests, or increasing attendance in career and health activities (physical activity and nutrition). Enroll parents into our Plan Ahead Youth Program. 80%of parents will achieve successful outcomes. Parents are successful if they attend 1 or more workshops, increase scores on workshop post-tests, attend at least 75% of our monthly parent meetings, or volunteer 3 times per quarter. )erformance Measures Staff maintain files for all program participants and this includes demographic information, attendance and participation records, report cards, award certificates, and behavior notes. Success in our youth program is measured quarterly, or every 3 months. Within the Academic Institute staff measure the improvement of school report grades from quarter to quarter by establishing a baseline GPA or other SAUSD specified benchmark from their most recent report cards and track for any Improvements on a quarterly basis. Success in the Leadership Institute is measured by youth completing 3 or more hours of community service or by demonstrating improved test scores on pre/post test surveys on 1 or more leadership workshops; Success in the Career Institute is measured by youth attending 1 or more career guest speaker presentation/workshops or college tour; Success in the Health Institute is measured by youth maintaining a "B" or higher in their improved test scores on pre/post test surveys on 1 more health workshops per quarter. We judge youth as overall successful when they are successful In 2 or more of the 4 institutes per quarter. Parent Component; Parents are considered successful if they participate in at least 2 parent meeting/training per quarter (we host monthly parent meetings) or donate at least 3 hours of their time back to the youth program per quarter EXHIBIT A