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2021-22 Orange County Children's Therapeutic Arts Center <br />Youth Employment Program -WIOA Proposal <br />1.Youth with Disabilities: OCCTAC has had a strong partnership with the Santa Ana Unified <br />School District, Transition Partnership Program (TPP) during the past 12 years, in order to <br />serve youth with disabilities. As seen in Table 2, OCCTAC has exceeded the 10% minimum <br />and last year served 50% of youth with disabilities! We are grateful to our key community <br />partner SAUSD TPP program staff for all of their referrals and support! <br />2.Foster/Emancipated Youth: OCCTAC will continue to collaborate with the County of Orange, <br />Social Services, to continue to serve foster/emancipated youth. OCCTAC has been a partner <br />with the County since 2007. We are looking forward to strengthening this partnership and <br />serve more foster/emancipated youth in Orange County this year! <br />3.Youth on Probation: As stated previously, OCCTAC has been in preliminary conversations <br />with the ED at Project Kinship (Steven Kim) on the possibility of collaborating and getting <br />referrals from their program for our WIOA program. Project Kinship recently moved their <br />operations to the same building (2215 N. Broadway -second floor) where OCCTAC agency is <br />located! The mission of Project Kinship is to provide support and training to lives impacted <br />by incarceration, gangs, and violence through hope, healing, and transformation. <br />4.Homeless Youth: OCCTAC is very excited to collaborate this year with the WISEPlace, an <br />organization that focuses primarily on serving homel ess women (youth and adults). <br />WISEPlace will continue to refer homeless youth to OCCTAC's Youth Employment Program, <br />as well refer adults to the various Santa Ana College certificate programs available at <br />OCCTAC. We are very excited about this new community partnership! <br />In addition to our excellent community partnerships, OCCTAC will continue to conduct <br />community outreach and special community events throughout the year to promote our <br />programs and inform the youth in the Santa Ana community about this wonderful WIOA <br />program. See Table 3 for more information. <br />F.Include a Letter(s) of Support from organizations that have agreed to refer youth to your <br />program as Attachment C. -See attached the following letters from our community partners: <br />1)Santa Ana Unified School District, TPP -Youth with Disabilities; 2) County of Orange, Social <br />Services -Foster Youth; 3) WISEPlace -Homeless Youth; 4) Santa Ana College -All Referrals <br />and Services. <br />G.Describe your recruitment plan that will fulfill the requirement of enrolling 100% of youth by <br />the 2nd quarter of the program (December 31, 2021). In addition to referrals from our key <br />community partners, we have established a timeline that will help us with our Community <br />Outreach and Recruitment plan in the City of Santa Ana. Please see below Table 3 which <br />summarizes our recruitment plan to ensure 100% of enrollment of youth by 2nd quarter. <br />4 <br />EXHIBIT 1