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EXHIBIT A PROPOSAL NARRATIVE ABOUT THE PROGRAM EXECUTIVE SUMMARY for SUCCESS BOUND! For the 2002/03 program period, the Career Development/ROP Department of the Santa Ana Unified School District is proposing to continue with a modified version of the program that is currently being funded with WIA Youth Funds entitled Success Bound! The program will address each of the ten WIA elements with either direct services funded through the WIA Success Bound! program or linkages to other District programs that pertain to a particular element. Participants will also be linked to other WIA providers so that they will have access to other programs in the Youth Service Provider Network. The Success Bound. program will again focus on high school seniors from the four comprehensive and two continuation high schools in the District. The target enrollment will be 70 Younger Youth in an In -School Program. This is less than the previous proposal, but does reflect the number actually being served in 2001/02. This reduced number will be recruited in the spring and early summer of 2002 as one of the objectives for this program is to provide all participants with access to summer employment opportunities. Given the experience gained from the 2001/02 recruitment process, the employment/internship contacts that have been developed serving current program participants and the assistance that will be available from the new Service Navigator staff at the W/O/R/K Center, we believe that we can meet this objective in a timely manner. The basic approach for the Success Bound. program will be one that utilizes regular weekly meetings with participants to maintain an ongoing relationship with each student by the WIA- funded staff. These meetings will be augmented by monthly adult mentor meetings held in collaboration with Career Beginnings of Orange County, priority access to ROP courses, paid internship/work experience activities during the regular school year and collaborative leadership/guidance activities during the weekly meetings presented by Camp Fire Boys & Girls, Orange County Council. The planned outcomes of the Success Bound! program are: • high school graduation; • a valid career preparation experience that will equip participants with the hard and soft skills needed to be gainfully employed; and, • the support needed to achieve each participant's higher education and career path goals. ROP Certificates and/or standardized test scores will be used to document skill attainment goals. Verification of the awarding of the participants' high school diploma will document the diplorna goal. While the course schedules from post secondary institutions will demonstrate the retention rate goal for the program participants. The chart on the following page summarizes how the proposed WIA funds requested in this RFP will be used to serve the 70 Success Bound! participants. On this chart, there are separate lines for each of the ten elements that indicate if the primary activities will be delivered and funded by