CHARITABLE VENTURES OF ORANGE COUNTY DBA PROJECT KINSHIP

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prw�:cT M.1L Workforce Innovation and Opportunities Act (WIOA) Santa Ana Workforce Development Board: Youth Service Provider 3) Offering onsite workforce development workshops and certificate programs for participants to increase their employability and work readiness skills. 4) Offering onsite tutoring that leads to measurable skill gains and education retention. 5) Providing incentives and supportive service funds to ensure youth success. 6) Providing leadership opportunities by including participants in conferences, policy campaigns, and peer mentoring relationships with newenrollees. Each of the above interactions will help exited participants remain engagement in services and connected to Project Kinship staff, volunteers, and new participants. D. Describe if your organization will provide youth with incentives or supportive services during follow-up to assist with youth retention. The proposed program will utilize both incentives and supportive services during the follow-up period to help participant continue to obtain and retain their levels of achievement. Participants will be eligible to earn any of the eight incentives listed in Section 13. All incentives will be tied to training and education, work readiness skills, and/or occupational skills attainment goal as identified in their ISP and/or ICP. They will be issued in $50 VISA gift cards. All incentives and supporting documentation will be included in the participant's casefile. Participants will also be eligible to receive supportive service funding during their follow-up period. These would include: bus passes, gas cards, and participant specific needs such as uniforms, tools, textbooks, driver's education classes, clothing, etc. On average, participants will receive $160 in supportive services during the follow-up period, as compared to an average of $350 per youth during program enrollment. E. How often will the youth be engaged or receive service during the follow-up period. Participants tend to require more frequent contact when they are in the follow-up period. For this reason, the Case Manager and/or Job Developer will increase the frequency of engagement with participants from twice a month during program enrollment to once a week during the follow-up period. This frequency of interaction helps participants feel connected and valued, all of which supports their personal success and confidence in serving as a mentor to others that are just beginning their individual journeys.