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meetings are used as appropriate. This information is also reported each month to the Board of Directors. The Transition Specialist conducts all exit interviews with cros leaving the OCCC to facilitate tracking the cros post corps activities. Experience Briefly outline all your youth program that have operated during the last 2 years. OCCC has operated a successful youth development program for over nine years. OCCC's target population is the most difficult and hardest to serve youth. At any given time in the OCCC program, you will find some if not all of the following: noncustodial parents, emancipated or homeless youth, gang members, parolees, and youth on probation. During FY 2000/2001, OCCC successfully served 253 young adults from 15 to 25 years old. 11% of our Corpsmembers were female. The ethnicity of Corpsmembers served was: 8% African -American; 23% Caucasian, and 67% Hispanic. Twenty-five percent of OCCC Corpsmembers were parents. OCCC serves Corpsmembers from more than 20 of the 35 cities and unincorporated areas of the County. We draw most of our Corpsmembers from the two largest cities most impacted by gangs, Santa Ana and Anaheim. The OCCC offers a comprehensive program to meet these needs. For the last two years the OCCC has offered the following; • Paid work experience normally in a crew structure to complete field projects. 10-12 crews with 6-8 cros per crew. Projects cover a variety of conservation, environmental, and recycling projects. • Paid office and computer skills training • Various hard and soft job skills training • Forklift certification and driver training • Bus passes and OCCC crew vans are used to provide cros transportation to work • $30/week work bonus program • High school diploma program • Basic academic remediation and Life Skills curriculum • Scholarships • Cms tracking and follow up • Support services and referrals • Paid and unpaid volunteer opportunities Which have been most successful to youth? Paid work experience, completion of a high school diploma, and providing cros with transportation to and from work have been the most successful parts of the OCCC program. Recent efforts to provide cros with scholarships for post -secondary instruction and the ability to earn a $30 weekly performance bonus have helped improve cros success with our program. What kind of experience do you have in incorporating parents into your programs? In our nine years of experience of providing services for at -risk youth, we have found that there is little parental involvement with youth at this age level and background. Therefore, OCCC anticipates little to no involvement by the parents of the youth enrolled 24