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in our proposed program. However, the OCCC WIA Coordinator will make every attempt to involve parents in the program to determine participant needs, eligibility, program success, and seek parent input into program design. OCCC will use a variety of methods to gain parent involvement including phone calls, appointments, home visits, surveys, recognition ceremonies and other activities that will include and promote family/parent involvement. What is ,your success based on? Our success is based on several factors. First, we provide these young adults with jobs that help them to meet their basic needs. Second we help them to improve their skills to become more employable and enhance their ability to meet their basic needs. Third, they are given an opportunity to succeed without regard for past history or failures. The success of OCCC's program is based on a team approach using multiple staff to provide case management. The OCCC uses a holistic approach to improve cros on an educational, professional, and personal level that provides prompt remediation of issues as they arise by caring, compassionate adults, who mentor, teach, and coach young adults on a daily basis. Holding cros accountable for their actions with the knowledge that there are both positive and negative consequences for their actions that will affect their ability to earn a living. Cms are treated as adults and employees that must perform at appropriate levels both on work projects as well as educationally in order to remain employed. Which have taught you valuable process improvement lessons? Our biggest challenge is to be responsive, appropriate and timely in addressing the often -critical needs of our hardest of the hard to serve at -risk, young adults population. We constantly seek new methods and tools to improve our processes of identifying and providing much -needed supportive services. We seek to maximize revenue and leverage resources through viable partnerships with other local youth serving organizations. Fiscal Capacity Describe the process used to capture and report fiscal data? During its 9-year history, OCCC has steadily increased its revenue base to its current budget for FY 2001/02 of $2.4 million. OCCC currently manages several grants and contracts of $200,000 or more with its largest single grant of $1,000,000 from the California Department of Conservation, Division of Recycling. OCCC successfully complies each year with financial audits from various state agencies and our own independent financial audit. To account for multiple funding streams, the OCCC uses fund accounting to track and report the varied revenue and expenses. Project codes are assigned to each work project. These project codes are used to track staff and cros work hours devoted to each individual project. These hours are then used to calculate wages for work performed. Fund accounts are assigned to each revenue stream. Project codes are assigned to a fund account to track expenses charged to that fund. Therefore the OCCC has the ability to track and report direct and indirect expenses by individual project and each fund/revenue source. 25