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Given an emerging body of research that documents the effectiveness of faith-based <br />social interventions, the program design also provides faith activities as an option to <br />participating youth and their families. Because some participants will have unique needs <br />that are associated with their foster care status, special services must be made <br />available to assist these youth in transitioning from a camp into independent living. <br />Finally, frequent meetings with parents will be provided as a follow-up to the parenting <br />training. These meetings will reinforce the parents' role and responsibilities to their <br />youth. <br /> <br /> CHCADA's proposed program, Fuetzas Unidas, includes all of the programmatic <br />components outlined in the RFP application. Additionally, we will integrate into the core <br />services several new elements based upon our experience in working with out-of-school <br />youth. All of the above programmatic components have been tested and retested in <br />CHCADA's other prevention/intervention programs with Iow-income, Latino youth. <br /> <br />Task 1: Designate a Program Manager <br /> <br /> Preliminary to the process of service delivery will be the creation of an <br />organizational structure that will facilitate service delivery. A Project Manager will be a <br />key component of CHCADA's service delivery mechanisms. This full time CHCADA <br />employee will perform duties and activities such as those summarized in Figure 5 <br />below. <br /> <br /> Figure 5: Duties and Responsibilities of the Project Manager <br />Under the direction of the Project Director, the Project Manager will: <br />· Coordinate and schedule all services provided by CHCADA's staff; <br />· Be physically present at each site when services are being provided; <br /> <br />· Train CHCADA's staff regarding policies, procedures, and regulations at each site; <br /> <br />· Participate in monthly meetings with CHCADA's Project Director; the WIA Youth <br /> Network and other key entities; <br /> <br />· Meet with Youth Provider Network members on an as-needed basis; <br /> <br />· Remain informed regarding all youth in the program; <br /> <br />· Intake other youth in collaboration with other Network members; <br /> <br />· Observe youth and make case notes based upon the observational data as part of <br /> the assessment process; <br /> <br />CHCADA's Response to RFF~ PY2002 Page 14 <br /> <br /> <br />