CHARITABLE VENTURES OF ORANGE COUNTY DBA PROJECT KINSHIP

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prao�i:�. fill Workforce Innovation and Opportunities Act(WIOA) oa n¢Cl1I'IvfY . Santa Ana Workforce Development Board: Youth Service Provider Plan {ISP) and Individual Career Plan (ICP) goals. For example, Project Kinship works closely with OCDE's charter and alternative education school sites, such as ACCESS, College and Career Academy Charter School, and Learning for Life Charter School to re -enroll out -of -school youth. The agency also uses its Restorative Practice Interventionists (RPIs) that are assigned within the SAUSD school sites to support the drop -out prevention process for in -school youth. Project Kinship works closely with the Social Services Agency and Juvenile Courts to support participants would are currently or previously experienced out -of -home placements, family reunification cases, or other juvenile court interventions. This includes accompanying participants to court appointments, collaborating with assigned case workers, and providing workshops or trainings regarding parenting, relationship building, anger management, etc. The majority of Project Kinship's participants will be classified as homeless according to the McKinney Vento Act definition that states children and youth who "have a primary nighttime residence that is a public or private place not designed for or ordinarily used as a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings; are living in cars, parks, public spaces, abandoned buildings, substandard housing, bus or train stations, or similar settings; are living in emergency or transitional shelters; are living in motels, hotels, trailer parks, or camping grounds due to the lack of alternative adequate accommodations; are sharing the housing of other persons due to loss of housing, economic hardship, or a similar reason". SAUSD Family Liaison, who are assigned to work with McKinney Vento students also serve.as a great source of referral as Project Kinship prioritizes program spending toward Work Experience Wages, Supportive Services, and Incentives to increase participants' likelihood of success. In addition, staff carefully plan and research resources to meet participants' needs prior to initiating a warm hand-off linkage. This extra effort and the assessment of a participant's reason and readiness for referral creates a strong interagency relationship with the warm hand- off recipient agency. This process ensures that both agencies clearly understand each other's eligibility requirements, target population, and intake process to ensure a quick and smooth transition for participants. It also leads to reciprocal referrals to Project Kinship programs. Although all these referral sources are valuable, the greatest source of referrals is"word of mouth" from current participants and program alum. See the Participant Vignettes included in Section 18 for examples of how influential word-of-mouth referrals are at recruiting youth. F. Include a Letter(s) of Support from organizations that have agreed to refer youth to your program as Attachment C. See the Letter of Support from Taller San Jose and the College and Career Preparatory Academy Charter School who agree to refer youth to the proposed program in Attachment C. G. Describe your recruitment plan that will fulfill the requirement of enrolling 100% of youth by the 2nd quarter of the program (December 31, 2020). Project Kinship will recruit two In -School Youth and eight Out -of -School Youth in both Quarter 1 and Quarter 2 in order to fulfill 100% enrollment by December 31, 2020.