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Orange County Conservation Corps and Youthbuild San[a Ana Workforce Investment Board Request for Proposal The Youth Service Provider Network PY 2005/2006 experience with incorporating parents into our program. Unfortunately, most parents of OCCC corpsmembers either do not have the time or have the desire to be involved with the program. The OCCC does schedule events throughout the year to involve family members, be it their parents, their wives/girlfriends, husbands/boyfriends, and/or children to promote s sense of family and community into our program. Corpsmember success at the OCCC often reunites the corpsmember with their parent(s) as corpsmembers become more responsible, stable, and self-sufficient adults. What is yoursuccess based on? The OCCC's success is based on using two program models that provide a comprehensive set of services and understands that youth and workforce development for the neediest youth takes time and multiple resources. A program that allows youth to have the time and support to develop holistically on a professional, educational, and personal level. Understanding that you can not serve the neediest youth without addressing the multiple personal/family issues they have along with the lack of education, work skills, work ethic, and work experience. As mentioned earlier, OCCC's success is based on having a program that recognizes that the neediest youth have not learned to work or go to school successfully and need time to become stable in their personal lives before they can focus on advanced training, post-secondary instruction, and maintaining employment. List positions and aualiTcations ofsta,~(assipned to this protect. The OCCC has several years experience in administering multiple contracts/grants, including WIA contracts. The OCCC does not rely solely on WIA funding. The OCCC has administered federal/state/and local contracts and grants, a few of the most recent being a $400,000 HUD/Youthbuild grant, multiple California Department of Conservation, Division of Recycling grants exceeding $1M each for the last three years, and multiple Santa Ana WIA and Orange County WIA contracts. The OCCC currently has 30 staff and needs to employ 80 corpsmembers each day to fulfill current work projects. Several staff will be involved in providing services for this project, some in-kind (Teachers, Transition Specialist, Training Supervisor). Several OCCC staff are former corpsmembers who are valuable role models and mentors to corpsmembers. Following are the staff with primary responsibility for providing services: • Rick Stroup, Executive Director: MS Education; 30 years experience working with youth in various settings; 10 years with the OCCC the last 8 as Executive Director. • Roberta Smith, Finance Manager: BA Accounting, BS Business Administration; 40 years finance experience with both nonprofit and for- profit organizations, 6 years with the OCCC. • Josh Volp, Program Director; HS Diploma college credits; 6 years experience at the OCCC in various management positions and grant/contract administration. Page 20 of 22