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Exhibit A <br />PROPOSAL NARRATIVE <br />ABOUT THE PROGRAM <br />EXECUTIVE SUMMARY <br />For <br />SUCCESS BOUND! <br />For the 2005/06 program period, the Career Development/ROP Department of the Santa Ana <br />Unified School District is proposing to continue the successful program that is currently being <br />funded with WIA Youth Funds entitled Success Bound! The program will address 90%o of the <br />ten WIA elements with either direct services funded through the WIA Success Bound! program <br />or linkages to other District programs that pertain to a particular element. Participants will also <br />continue to be linked to other WIA providers so that they will have access to other programs in <br />the Youth Service Provider Network. <br />The Success Bound. program will again .focus on high school seniors from the four <br />comprehensive and two continuation high schools in the District. The target enrollment will be <br />30 Younger Youth in an In-School Program. This target number of participants reflects the <br />number actually served in 2004/05. The participants will be recruited in the spring and early <br />summer of 2005. Given the experience gained from previous recruitment processes, the <br />employment/intemship contacts that have been developed serving current program participants <br />and the assistance available from the Service Navigator staff at the W/O/R/K Center, we believe <br />that we can meet this objective in a timely manner. <br />The basic approach for the Success Bound! program will be one that utilizes regular weekly <br />meetings during non-instructional time with participants to maintain an ongoing relationship <br />with each student by the WIA-funded staff. These meetings will be augmented by monthly adult <br />mentor meetings held outside the regular school day in collaboration with Career Beginnings of <br />Orange County, priority access to ROP courses, paid internship/work experience activities <br />during the regular school year and collaborative leadership/guidance activities. <br />The planned outcomes of the Success Bound! program are: <br />• high school graduation; <br />• a valid career preparation experience that will equip participants with the hard and soft <br />skills needed to be gainfully employed; and, <br />• the support needed to achieve each participant's higher education and career path goals. <br />ROP Certificates, TABE results and/or other standardized test scores will be used to document <br />skill attainment goals. Verification of the awarding of the participants' high school diploma will <br />document the d~loma eoal and course schedules from post secondary institutions will <br />demonstrate the retention rate goal for the program participants. <br />