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most common example of support services. However, via the ROP's Community Advisory Committee and the Assistance League of Santa Aha, participants will have access to appropriate work site clothing when needed. The resoumes of the District's Teen Parent program will be brought to bear should a participant have to address such issues as childcare, parenting, etc. The two collaborators for the program, Career Beginnings of Orange County and The Camp Fire Boys & Girls will also assist in provision of services regarding this program standard. The adult mentors from the CBOC program have historically not only assisted their mentees with such expected items as career and academic counseling, recreational activities, etc., but they have help with such things as providing appropriate clothing for interviews, transportation, accompanying their mentee on job or college interviews, etc. One of the components of the Camp Fire Boys & Girls program that will offered to each participant during the 12-15 months they are in the program is the concept community service that comes from their "Gift of Giving" program.. While not directly a support service, the focus of this program is to actively engage the students to participate in community service. Progi-am activities focus on several important social and community related concepts and it is felt that this element of the program will be of value to the participants from not only a supportive service point of view but from one of leadership. ELEMENT #8: An effective adult mentoring progra~n desigued to comJ~lement and ensure attaiument of the program's goals for graduation, enrolbnent in higher education and acquisition of basic career skills. One of the major elements of the Success Bound! program is the adult mentoring program provided by Career Beginnings of Orange County (CBOC). This activity is modeled after a program that originally began over ten years ago with a grant at Santa Ana College. For the past six years, a non-profit Board of Directors has operated CBOC in cooperation with the Secondary Enrichment Programs at the ROP in the Santa Aha Unified School District. As a significant component of the Success Bound! program, the Career Beginnings adult mentor program will be a required activity for each participant during his or her senior year. It will not be part of each participant's experience for this WIA In-School Youth program during the summer when they are first recruited into the program. This timing will afford staff the opportunity to get to know each participant and recruit adult mentors with the potential to more closely match the needs of each participant. This is a departure from the CBOC model designed to address one of the problems encountered in prior years-making good mentor/mentee matches within a 3045 day period. It is planned that each adult mentor will have no more than two mentees. The adult mentor program will be supported by both CBOC and Success Bound! staff. This program will focus around ten monthly "Mentor Nights." Follow-up activities to the CBOC evening meetings will be incorporated into the weekly Success Botmd! meetings. It should be noted that while these leadership and guidance/counseling meetings are on a weekly basis, school schedules, assemblies, holidays, etc., often consmne at least one of the meeting times each month~ Mentors will be recruited in a variety of ways. Each high school campus has several business partners, some schools with as many as fifteen business partners. Community partners are interested in working with the schools to increase student achievement by providing better and more educational opportunities. Recruitment at these sites enables the business parmer the opportunity to get "directly" involved with the students. P,'esentations will be made at breakfast, lunch and evening lneetings. Another avenue for recruitment includes presentations at service organizations, Chamber of Commerce meetings, and the City of Santa. After initial recruitment, mentors would be asked to fill out an application and attend an orientation meeting and personal interview with staff. The Santa Ana Unified School District 17