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Success Bound! participants will be regularly contacted on an informal basis (mail, phone and e- mail —if available) to monitor their progress during this twelve month basis. The purpose of the informal contacts will be to remind the participants of the availability of continuing follow-up services. These would include not only the standard supportive services available to WIA program participants, but also access to tutoring/study areas at the ROP Ritchey Center, Cal- WORKs programs, the W/O/R/K Center and ROP courses. The District's Career Development/ROP staff has close relationships with both programs and staff at Santa Ana College; those Success Bound! participants who attend that institution will also have access to extra support and attention during the twelve. -month period as a result of these relationships. With respect to regular progress reports, record keeping, etc., the Secondary Enrichment Programs staff at the ROP Ritchey Center are experienced in providing the data needed by the WIB, Youth Council and others to document the effectiveness of the program and the success of its participants. Unless requested to do otherwise by the Santa Ana W/O/R/K Center staff, it is planned that the same types of reporting and monitoring activities that had been in place for JTPA will be continued for WIA funded programs. This is true for both programmatic and fiscal monitoring. As some of the school -based information on the District's CASTS system and elsewhere is confidential, records (including ISS files) will be kept at the ROP Ritchey Center unless the new Service Navigation team at the W/O/R/K Center changes current procedures. If it is necessary for other WIA youth programs, the district will collaborate with other vendors to provide strident data within the boundaries of various state and federal privacy regulations. ELEMENT #10: Access to and provision of a comprehensive array of guiclanee and counseling support activities that focus improving student performance and achievement. Project services for Success Bound. participants that involve this final standard have been partially addressed in several of the other standards, particularly those dealing with leadership development, supportive services and adult mentoring. These activities basically represent the contributions of the project's two collaborators, Career Beginnings of Orange County and the Camp Fire Boys & Girls, Orange County Council. As also mentioned above, the vehicle for delivering the services will normally be the weekly meetings at the individual high school sites. Augmented by the services of the collaborators, this portion of the project will afford participants with comprehensive guidance and counseling services that far exceed those that they can normally access in a traditional high school setting. These staff members will also be available outside the regular school day thus making them available at times when these at -risk students do not have to be in class. Alternative methods of access are important to the target population and it is an objective of this part of the proposed program to facilitate the access of these students to supplementary supportive services. The Project Specialist for the Success Bound! program will monitor participant contacts with all staff and the collaborators to ensure that this part of each participant's ISS is being addressed. Experience with previous JTPA programs has taught that this aspect of program management is extremely import; not only with respect to reporting requirement, but more importantly, with respect to providing appropriate services to participants. Records from counselors and other academic guidance and career center personnel at the high schools will also be a part of each participant's file (within the parameters of existing privacy legislation). This aspect of the program would also be the main method for tracking each participant's progress towards the basic goals of the Success Bound! program. 19