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system and follow-up by staff. Depending on the needs, several options will be available for the students: tutoring, practice tests and preparation for college entrance exams, proficiency test tutoring, etc. Individual help from staff, adult mentors and others will ensure the success of the students. Grades and attendance will be monitored. If additional intervention is necessary, the appropriate staff person will be notified of the needs of the student. ELEMENT 4/3: Access to directly linked sun,ruer employment opportunities. The Success Bound! Program will directly provide paid summer work experiences modeled after the old JTPA Title II-B programs. Specific summer employment experiences will vary depending upon each participant's career pathway, but all will be afforded access to a minimum of 20 hours of work for seven weeks and basic pre-employment skills training related to both their paid work experience environment and their educational & career goals. Three programs from the first summer of the Success Bound! program offer an example of this. Several students from the Entertainment, Arts & Communications pathway at Century HS worked with a staff member from the Santa Ana Zoo to develop and produce video presentations used by the zoo to recruit volunteers. In another example mentioned previously, nearly a dozen students from the Health and Human Services pathways were trained at Santa Ana HS to operate and supervise a fitness center on the campus that is open to students and staff throughout the school day. Finally, four Success Bound! students were part of a larger group that included other potential participants from the Health pathway that were assigned to a UCI internship program at the UCI Health Center on N. Main. Success Bound! participants from other pathways or disciplines will be involved in similar experiences over the summer. They will be encouraged to take an ROP course, which is aligned with their career pathway. Whenever possible, the internship component of that ROP course will be expanded into their paid summer employment so that they can experience the real relevancy of their training. Also of note is the fact that if necessary, the program will provide bus passes to work/internship sites for the summer period. It must be pointed out that most of these summer experiences will take place in the afternoon as most, if not all of the Success Bound! participants will be in the Districts academic summer school program in the morning (or that of one of the alternative programs mentioned in Element 2 above). With high school graduation as the key goal for this program, participants will be encouraged to make-up any course deficiencies prior to other summer considerations ELEMENT #4: Opportunity for each participant to participate itt paid and/or unpaid internships or work experiences. This successful element of the current 2001/02 WIA program is a modification a previous JTPA program between the Santa Aha Unified School District and the Private Industry Council of Santa Ana. That program, the "School-Workplace Internship Program," served high school participants who attend Santa Ana high schools and/or Regional Occupational Program (ROP) classes. As with the 2001/02 program, Success Bottnd! participants in 2002/03 will be given the opportunity for both paid or non-paid internship (work experience) opportunities that offer: ~ viable paid workplace internships which provide appropriate work-based learning opportunities; ~ improved career related curricula and instructional strategies allied with the UROG "Choosing Success" or other similar connecting activities; ~ strengthened comprehensive local community partnerships; and, ~ improved non-traditional employment opportunities for WlA eligible students. 14