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City of Santa Ana CDBG Scope of Work Program Year 2020.2021 (December 1, 2020 - December 1, 2021) Name of Organization Project Hope Alliance Name of Funded Program Santa Ana Outreach for Youth Experiencing Homelessness Annual Accomplishment Goal Unduplicated Participants anticipated to be served during the 12-month contract period. 50 TOTALI 50 Santa Ana Padici ants 1100%1 e Participants 10G% Schedule of Performance Unduplicated Estimated (estimated) Participants Invoicing Quarter 1: JUL 1 - SEP 30 12 1 $ 36,000-00 Quarter 2: OCT 1 - DEC 31 13 $ 3%000.00 Quarter 3: JAN 1 - MAR 31 12 $ 36.000.00 Quarter 4: APR 1 - JUN 30 13 $ 39,000.00 $ 150,000.00 Program and Funding Description Overview: Our Distance. Learning Outreach (DLO) is designed to help students in Santa Ana who have been negatively impacted b lack of resources, training, and support needed to continue on their academic path during the pandemic. Need: It is increasingly difficult for low-income families to survive in affluent areas like Orange County. As of 2019,25%of the homeless live in California and 7%of the nation s homeless youth live in motels, which would equate to roughly 2,050 homeless youth living in Orange County motels (Child Trends research, May 2019). COVIA has had a profound impact c student academic performance. The 22.2 million lost jobs in California in the first two months of the pandemic has exa the already tenuous situation of many families who were on the edge of home(essness. The job losses and correlating I losses levied a toll on housed and non -housed students alike. By way of example, 13%of students in to County schools out ine contact with th ei r teachers, and 1/3 had intermittent participation in online teaming especially in lower income The Orange County Department of Education reported that, pre-COVID, 13.1% (6,542 students) of the youth in. the San Unified School District were experiencing homelessness. In the districts where PHA has a heavy presence )Newport Me Anaheim), we have seen a 3x growth in the number of homeless youth. We believe Santa Ana may be experiencing sin growth in their numbers as well, increasing the urgency for community agencies to be expedient in addressing the nee With the schools closing in response to the COVID-19 crisis, Project Hope Alliance (PHA) has proactively adapted their methodology to address the transportation barrier for students who have been isolated from their academics by the d divide, lacking the resources to continue their schoolwork. To serve students experiencing homefessnesswho are !seta their dwelling places (motels, shelters, doubled -up), our Case Managers are visiting students in person to ensure that e student can overcome the gaps in their academic path presented by the school closures. Youth experiencing homeless already struggling to survive, and the lack of Internet access and digital tools tiaptop/tabiet/wlfi) present a huge battle those students who want to continue to do well at school, but do not have the necessary tools and resources to suttee now know that access to technology and the Internet are the greatest impediment to their participation inschool, folk the challenge single parents (the majority of our clientele) encounter with unfamiliar online teaming modalities while v multiple jobs to provide for their children. In addition, the physical distancing of students from their base of support pr by the schooi further complicates their academic opportunities. Schools provide not only basic needs like free or reduc Punches, but also afford an integrated, collaborative approach in removing barriers for students experiencing homeless Resources like mentoring, tutoring- and most importantly coordination of care between students and their parents w teachers, administrators and McKinney-Vento'liaisons - provides students with supplemental opportunities that succes counteract the deficits they encounter in homelessness. Our case managers utilize multiple methods to stay in constan with students, from simple tools like texting, phone, and email to Zoom and Google meet -ups and video workshops. P1, mein bers have also created a bilingual online learning guide to educate parents on how to navigate the distance learni environment. PHA partners like Mercury Insurance and Edwards Lifesciences have been providing laptops and we are approaching other technology firms to solicit hotspots for our clients. The remaining cost is for monthly internet conne fees- the missing component that allows our students to have direct access to all of the online learning resources, hon assignments, class sessions. and teacher interactions. Our full scope of services includes a holistic approach to ending homelessness. As our solution is not prescriptive, butt to fit the specific needs of each individual child, we pull from a "toolbox" of resources than can include any/all of the fr - Individualized academic support & materials - Weekly mentoring - Teacher coordination - Parent involvement - Case management and mentorship - Definition of goals and a case plan - Home visits - Weekly check -ins - School/McKinney Vento Coordination - 24/7 support - Connections to needed community resources, such EX+RgWil, food and healthcare