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Information Technology (Goodwill Industries), Healthcare (Children's Bureau), and Hospitality/entertainment (Marriot). We collaborate with the Marriott International serving all of Orange County, in collaboration with Ms. Karen Kretschmer, Human Resources Market Manager- Orange County to provide WEX training sites and direct hire within all of the hotels and offices throughout Orange County. Youth receive training in customer service, front desk operations, hospitality, and stewardship. Youth then have an opportunity to gain competitive employment following their training with the Marriot, as well as the Voyage Global Leadership program, including exposure to specialized training of several functions with our global hotel network. Marriott Hotels includes Four Points, Fairfield, Residence Inn, Towneplace Suites, and Courtyard. Corpsmembers also have an opportunity to join paid and volunteer disaster response assignments, as needed throughout the County and State. Each year certain community needs arise. Currently, Corpsmembers are completing projects in recently burned areas of north Orange County devastated by several wildfires. These projects help remove debris and fire fuel, clear and restore habitat, and require significant teamwork and coordination with the County staff, City staff, Crew Supervisors, fellow Corpsmembers and community members. Other projects include building emergency sand bags, removing fire fuel from dangerous areas, and cleaning up homeless camps from the Santa Ana Riverbed. Letters of support from the City of Garden Grove's Public Works Facility Manager Ron Meislahn highlighting the efforts of the paid job -training program youth completed. Further Michael J. Byrne, Senior Management Analyst from the City of Irvine's Solid Waste and Recycle Program has provided additional support of the OCCC crews and paid job -training program. Numerous Corpsmembers have gone on to work for City and County Public positions related to environmental efforts, public works, and conservation technologies. OCCC through our on -site partnership with the Orange County Department of Education, College and Career Preparatory Academy (CCPA) provide STEM training directly to Corpsmembers. Corpsmembers work in teams or "crews" to develop healthy teamwork skills, healthy communication skills, all apart of the STEM Workplace Skills found to be needed by Orange County companies and entrepreneurs (OCSTEM, 2019). Corpsmembers are required to participate in STEM workshop opportunities to prepare students for college readiness, including Common Core life skills, healthy communication skills, and to have the ability to solve problems. CCPA teachers recently completed the following STEM training courses in 2018: (1) two day training on the new California Social Science Framework and how the adopted social Science curriculum coincides with the new framework. (2) half -day training on the adopted English Language Arts curriculum and its online components. (3) staff were trained in the remedial reading program, MAX Scholar, to meet the needs of our students to improve literacy skills. (4) three day training on computer use in education. CCPA Principle Dave Conner provided a letter of support highlighting the partnership with OCCC and CCPA. Each of the 25 OSY completing programs at OCCC, in collaboration with CCPA, is required to meet one-on-one with a CCPA instructor to improve skills, with an emphasis on STEM based practices and training. Each OSY receives a laptop computer to complete coursework, workshops and STEM based skills. CCPA staff enroll OSY students near completion of their