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2022-23 Orange County Children's Therapeutic Arts Center Youth Employment Program - WIOA Proposal 1. Youth with Disabilities: OCCTAC has had a strong partnership with the Santa Ana Unified School District, Transition Partnership Program (TPP) during the past 12 years, in order to serve youth with disabilities. As seen in Table 2, OCCTAC has exceeded the 10% minimum and last year served 50% of youth with disabilities! We are grateful to our key community partner SAUSD TPP program staff for all of their referrals and support! Foster/Emancipated Youth: OCCTAC will continue to collaborate with the County of Orange, Social Services, to continue to serve foster/emancipated youth. OCCTAC has been a partner with the County since 2007. We are looking forward to strengthening this partnership and serve more foster/emancipated youth in Orange County this year! Youth on Probation: As stated previously, OCCTAC has been in preliminary conversations with the ED at Project Kinship (Steven Kim) on the possibility of collaborating and getting referrals from their program for our WIOA program. Project Kinship recently moved their operations to the same building (2215 N. Broadway — second floor) where OCCTAC agency is located) The mission of Project Kinship is to provide support and training to lives impacted by incarceration, gangs, and violence through hope, healing, and transformation. 4. Homeless Youth: OCCTAC will continue to collaborate with WISEPIace, an organization that focuses primarily on serving homeless women (youth and adults). WISEPIace will continue to refer homeless youth to OCCTAC's Youth Employment Program, as well refer adults to the various Santa Ana College certificate programs available at OCCTAC. In addition to our excellent community partnerships, OCCTAC will continue to conduct community outreach and special community events throughout the year to promote our programs and inform the youth in the Santa Ana community about this wonderful WIOA program. See Table 3 for more information. F. Include a Letter(s) of Support from organizations that have agreed to refer youth to your program as Attachment C. — See attached the following letters from our community partners: 1) Santa Ana Unified School District, TPP —Youth with Disabilities; 2) County of Orange, Social Services — Foster Youth; 3) WISEPIace — Homeless Youth; 4) Santa Ana College —All Referrals and Services. All letters will be submitted to the City prior to Contract approval. G. Describe your recruitment plan that will fulfill the requirement of enrolling 100% of youth by the 2nd quarter of the program (December 31, 2022). In addition to referrals from our key community partners, we have established a timeline that will help us with our Community Outreach and Recruitment plan in the City of Santa Ana. Please see below Table 3 which summarizes our recruitment plan to ensure 100% of enrollment of youth by 2nd quarter. Ell