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2024-25 Orange County Children's Therapeutic Arts Center <br />Youth Employment Program - WIOA Proposal <br />4. Assessment (1 page max): <br />A. Youth Service Providers are required to use the Test for Adult Basic Education (TABE) <br />assessment tool, but may use other assessment tools upon approval. — OCCTAC will <br />continue to use TABE testing with all our WIOA participants, as in previous years. Also, we <br />will continue to use the electronic version of the Test for Adult Basic Education (TABE on <br />ALL youth to assess their literacy and numeracy skills. Youth who score 8.9 and below are <br />considered "basic skills deficient", and will be enrolled in tutoring at OCCTAC to help <br />support both their literacy and numeracy skills, in order to help them improve their literacy <br />and numeracy skills before they complete the program. <br />B. Describe how your program will conduct assessments for youth participants, elaborate <br />on the type of assessment tools or surveys that will be used. — At intake, all participants <br />will be given a TABE test to determine the participant's Educational Functional Level in <br />Literacy and Numeracy. The TABE test will determine the needs of the participants in both <br />academic areas. Additionally, they will aid in the facilitation of the weekly tutoring sessions. <br />All WIOA participants will be assessed after 3 months of tutoring to see their progress in <br />each academic/subject area. If the youth goes up by 2 grade levels or more, the youth can <br />take the final Post Test assessment. All participants will continue with the tutoring sessions <br />if they score under 9.1 level. <br />C. Describe knowledge of the barriers that youth encounter — OCCTAC has served many <br />youth with different barriers in life throughout our 22 years of community service! The <br />majority of the barriers include youth with disabilities, youth with basic skills deficient, <br />English language learners, low-income youth, homeless youth, youth in foster care or <br />emancipated, pregnant or parenting youth, high school dropouts and other barriers. <br />OCCTAC is very committed to serving all youth with these barriers and any others. <br />D. Specify how your organization will address the barriers that youth encounter - OCCTAC <br />WIOA staff is very dedicated and committed to all the youth that we enroll in our Youth <br />Employment (WIOA) program at OCCTAC. We have offered this WIOA program for more <br />than 15 years to the Santa Ana youth! Our staff is comprised of a hardworking group of <br />individuals that are passionate about making a difference in the community, and are <br />prepared to address all of the barriers that youth encounter. Our TEAM of dedicated staff <br />guide and mentor the youth, and assist them during the entire program year. The team is <br />comprised of a Case manager, a Literacy/Numeracy Tutor, a Career Counselor, a Job <br />Developer and Work Experience mentors that help youth attain their educational and <br />career goals. All of the youth are also required to attend monthly job skills/life skills <br />workshops, focusing anywhere from employment attainment/retention, to howto improve <br />and change their own personal lives, and the community in which they live. In addition, to <br />aid in academic barriers that youth experience, all participants will be assigned to an <br />Educational counselor who will provide direction and coaching on any academic aspect, <br />3 <br />