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respect to reporting requirement, but more importantly, with respect to providing appropriate services to participants and coordinating case management activities that may involve of service providers in the provider's network. 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. SUCCESS BOUND! PROGRAM FACILITIES SITE AVAILABILITY, ACCESSIBILITY & HOURS OF OPERATION The program will be offered primarily at the ROP Ritchey Center and the comprehensive high schools with senior classes ;Century, Saddleback, Santa Ana and Valley. All these sites and the two continuation high schools (Chavez and Mountain View) are readily accessible to project youth. They also meet ADA requirements vis-a-vis handicap access. In recognition of the importance of the District's normal academic program and the academic standards which it embraces, Success Bound! program activities will take place outside the normal academic day. Regularly scheduled weekly meetings will take place beforelafter school (7:00 to 8:00 am and/or 3:00 to 5:45 pm), in the evening (6:00 to 8:30 pm) and/or durine lunch that is considered as non- instructional time (11:15 to 11:55 am, 12:15 to 12:55 pm). The monthly evening meetings with adult mentors will take place in either the high schools or local business such as Orange County Teachers Federal Credit Union or Ingram-Micro. These sites and others such as the Santa Ana W/0/R/K Center are accessible in terms of both public transportation and handicapped accessibility. With respect to career training, school bus transportation is available for high school students attending ROP courses (this includes local drop-off points for internship opportunities) for both early and late afternoon classes. The project staff will also assist participants in getting transportation to other activities whenever possible. Prior experience with the CBOC organization has indicated that the adult mentors will also assist participants with transportation needs. EXPERIENCE For many years, the Santa Ana Unified School District collaborated with the Santa Ana PIC and now the WIB in providing CETA, JTPA and now WIA programs. During that time, over 7,000 students have participated in a variety of summer and in-school year programs. While operating these programs, District personnel in [he Secondary Enrichment Programs office at the ROP Ritchey Center have developed a positive working relationship with the W/O/R/K Center staff that has now carried over into WIA programs. The Santa Ana Unified School District staff in the Career Development/ROP Department's Secondary Enrichment Programs office is very experienced with youth programs and at-risk populations. This is particularly true with respect to dealing with the data collection requirements of similar types of youth related programs; both those problems encountered in enrolling potential pazticipants and those unique to reporting program completion data. For the 21