CHARITABLE VENTURES OF ORANGE COUNTY DBA PROJECT KINSHIP

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ptzv»nc� Workforce Innovation and Opportunities Act(WIOA) Santa Ana Workforce Development Board: Youth Service Provider 1. Experience/Qualifications (1 page max) A. Briefly describe your organization. Project Kinship is a non-profit organization founded in 2014 and fiscally sponsored by Charitable Ventures of Orange County (CVOC). Project Kinship serves as a convener of community resources and advocate for the health, mental health, and wellbeing of the re-entry population. It promotes hope, encourages healthy decisions that lower recidivism, and offers rehabilitation services that promote healing. These goals are accomplished by providing access to supportive services; offering prevention, intervention, and treatment programming; and advocating for system solutions to flip the school -to -prison into the prison -to -career pipeline. B. List the facility address. Please include major cross streets. It is located at 2215 N. Broadway #2 in Santa Ana (Cross Streets: Main and 17`hStreet). C. Indicate hours of operation for facility. Hours of operation are Monday through Friday 8:30-5:30PM. D. Briefly indicate what makes your facility youth friendly and suitable for theprogram. Project Kinship incorporates trauma -informed care into all programs to address the unique needs of those who have experienced violence in the home, neighborhoods, or correctional settings. This includes creating a trauma -informed office environment, intake rooms, and convening spaces to engage participants. Project Kinship also specializes in restorative justice programming to engage those at -risk for, involved in, or former members of gangs, and the formerly incarcerated. This leads to a neutral, safe place for all participants. E. Provide brief information on the following elements: 1. Average annual operating budget and sources of revenue The agency's annual operating budget is approximately $4.7 Million, including school district contracts, government grants, and foundation funding. Project Kinship is the lead Agency for the county's Proposition 47 re-entry services program and a new Special Populations provider for Orange County WIOA adult services; both will supplement the proposed services. 2. Brief description of staff There are 56 staff (6 administrative and 50 direct service/management) positions. 3. Past experience with WIOA programs or other youth programs Project Kinship has been a workforce development and educational services provider for four years through the WAGEES program and has had Restorative Practice Invention contracts with the Santa Ana Unified School District (six school sites) since 2014. It added Garden Grove Unified School District (three sites) in 2017 and Brea Unified School District (three sites) in 2018. 4. What kind of impact has your organization made on the youth community? Project Kinship programs have specialized in serving youth participants since 2014, serving thousands of elementary school -aged to transitional -aged youth. Impacts include: increased educational success for in -school youth; re -enrollment for out -of -school youth; and preparation, obtainment, and retention of workforce development placements for all youth.