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EXHIBIT C <br />I. Experience and Qualifications <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 community <br />resources and advocates for the health, mental health, and wellbeing of the re-entry population. It <br />promotes hope, encourages healthy decisions that lower recidivism, and offers rehabilitation services <br />that promote healing. These goals are accomplished by providing access to supportive services; <br />offering prevention, intervention, and treatment programming; and advocating for system solutions <br />to flip the school -to -prison into the prison -to -career pipeline. <br />The proposed program will serve as a natural continuation of Project Kinship's workforce <br />development and education programs, including Restorative Practices; job training and vocational <br />support services; and case management services offered to individuals with histories of gang and/or <br />justice system involvement. The main objectives of Prison to Employment Initiative are: 1) career <br />planning, work readiness skill -building, training, and certifications; 2) job development, intensive <br />case management, and peer mentoring; 3) education enrollment and retention; 4) civic opportunities <br />and leadership development, and 5) incentives, training stipends, paid work experience, and other <br />supportive services. <br />Project Kinship incorporates trauma -informed care into all programs to address the unique <br />needs of those who have experienced violence in the home, neighborhoods, or correctional settings. <br />This includes creating a trauma -informed office environment, intake rooms, and convening spaces <br />to engage participants. Projects Kinship also specializes in restorative justice programming to engage <br />those at -risk for, involved in, or former members of gangs, and the formerly incarcerated. This leads <br />to a neutral, safe place for all participants. <br />Project Kinship is an award-witming agency in the areas of gang intervention, re-entry <br />services, restorative practices, and trauma -informed care, which is a strength -based approach that <br />