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past several years, District staff has been successful in recruiting and serving the at-risk population. This is not to say that there have not been problems in the past with recruitment or placement goals going unmet. But staff has learned from experience and is ready to deal with the real difficulties encountered in the enrollment, placement and data collection processes. Staff is also well versed in the completion of ongoing Individual Service Strategy documents for each participant, utilizing VOS, the administration of objective assessments, etc. The Career Development/ROP Department has literally hundreds of relationships in place with area employers who have experienced success with prior youth program participants. This is particularly true of those paid internship positions utilized in the JTPA School Workplace Internship Program, the Arts-in-the-City program and the WIA Success Bound! & Right Start! programs. In addition to these, WIA youth participants will have access to the hundreds of regular ROP internship sites partnered with specific career preparation courses. Paid, non-paid, job shadowing and other related activities will also be accessible to the WIA participants via the Career Centers at the high schools and the CTS lab at the ROP Ritchey Center. The adult mentors form Career Beginnings of Orange County (CBOC) will also be a resource to program participants. The proposed staffing will include only Career Development/ROP staff members with prior WIA experience and staff new to the department. Given the scope of this project and the experience from the 2004/05 program year, it is cleaz that the proposed staff should be sufficient. The proposed staff is outlined on the Project Staff form basically continues the staffing that has been working with current WIA programs. These staff members will be supported by the infrastructure of the Career Development/ROP office and the College/Career Centers at each high school. Allied with the District staff will be support personnel from other agencies such as EDD, the W/O/R/K Center, Cal-WORKS and other member of the Youth Service Provider Network. Paid and volunteer staff from Career Beginnings of Orange County will also support the team providing collaborative services to the In-School program participants. The efforts of these support staff and others will serve to leverage the WIA direct funded services into a more successful program for the Success Bound! participants. The over-all operation for the Success Bound! will be handled by Ricazdo Quezada, Community Resource Specialist for SAUSD. Tony Dalessi, a retired Program Specialist who has been responsible for the operational management of previous WIA and JTPA programs will be the person reporting to the Youth Council on behalf of the District and its collaborators for this project. The primary contact for the CBOC adult mentoring activities will be Jon Anderson, Operations Specialist for the Career Beginnings of Orange County Board of Directors. The normal working hours for these staff members assigned to work with the Success Bound! program will range from 7:30 am to 5:00 pm. However, they will be available for evening meetings, weekends and other times necessary to effectively serve the Success Bound! participants. All will be located at the ROP Ritchey Center, but to effectively serve the participants, they will be out of the office in order to conduct the weekly meetings at the local high schools, make job-site visitations, develop new training sites and/or internships, etc. The tables below and on the following page summarize the personnel planned to service and operate the Success Bound! program. 22