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�rrsu�xa� <br />.�a Workforce Innovation and Opportunities Act(WIOA) <br />kNn Santa Ana Workforce Development Board: Youth Service Provider <br />1. Experience/Qualifications (1 page max) <br />A. Briefly describe your organization. <br />Project Kinship is a non-profit organization founded in 2014 and fiscally sponsored by <br />Charitable Ventures of Orange County (CVOC). Project Kinship serves as a convener of <br />community resources and advocate for the health, mental health, and wellbeing of the re-entry <br />population. It promotes hope, encourages healthy decisions that lower recidivism, and offers <br />rehabilitation services that promote healing. These goals are accomplished by providing access <br />to supportive services; offering prevention, intervention, and treatment programming; and <br />advocating for system solutions to flip the school -to -prison into the prison -to -career pipeline. <br />B. List the facility address. Please include major cross streets. <br />It is located at 2215 N. Broadway #2 in Santa Ana (Cross Streets: Main and 17th Street). <br />C. Indicate hours of operation for facility. <br />Hours of operation are Monday through Friday 8:30-5:30PM. <br />D. Briefly indicate what makes your facility youth friendly and suitable for the program. <br />Project Kinship incorporates trauma -informed care into all programs to address the <br />unique needs of those who have experienced violence in the home, neighborhoods, or <br />correctional settings. This includes creating a trauma -informed office environment, intake <br />rooms, and convening spaces to engage participants. Project Kinship also specializes in <br />restorative justice programming to engage those at -risk for, involved in, or former members of <br />gangs, and the formerly incarcerated. This leads to a neutral, safe place for all participants. <br />E. Provide brief information on the following elements: <br />1. Average annual operating budget and sources of revenue <br />The agency's annual operating budget is approximately $2 Million, including school <br />district contracts, government grants, and foundation funding. Project Kinship is the lead <br />Agency for the county's Proposition 47 re-entry services program and a new Special Populations <br />provider for Orange County WIOA adult services; both will supplement the proposed services. <br />2. Brief description of staff <br />There are 33 staff (6 administrative and 27 direct service/management) positions. <br />3. Past experience with WIOA programs or other youth programs <br />Project Kinship has been a workforce development and educational services provider for <br />three years through the WAGEES program and has had Restorative Practice Invention contracts <br />with the Santa Ana Unified School District (six school sites) since 2014. It added Garden Grove <br />Unified School District (one site) in 2017 and Brea Unified School District (three sites) in 2018. <br />4. What kind of impact has your organization made on the youth community? <br />Project Kinship programs have specialized in serving youth participants since 2014, <br />serving thousands of elementary school -aged to transitional -aged youth. Impacts include: <br />increased educational success for in -school youth; re -enrollment for out -of -school youth; and <br />preparation, obtainment, and retention of workforce development placements for all youth. <br />EXHIBIT A <br />