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Exhibit A I 1"~ Santa Ana V'Fur4aorcc [nvcstment 13aaard9Yauth Council The Yauth Scn•ice Provider Network 1S~FP 2(!4512006 Orange Count' Children's Therapeuriic Arts Center PROPOSAL NARRA'I'~VE Abo®t the Program 1Jxee.utive Summary The tOrange county Children's Therapeutic Arts Center (OCCTAaC) will recruit and serve a total of 50 (25) tn-School and (25) Out-of-School Santa Ana at-risk and disabled youth between the ages of 14-18 yrs. eligible to qualify for WIA Title 1 B youth services. OCCT.4~C will collaborate with the Santa Ana UniSred School District and the County of Orange to recmit and Qefer potential WIA participants to the Sant:: Ana W/Oi Rr'K Center for eligibility dete.mination through, the offices of Pupil Services, Student Discupline Services, and the Pupil Placement Committee from referrals to alternative schools and/or programs. OCCTAC will address the following WLA elements Mated on page 6 of the proposal appliication: 1, 3, 4, 6, and 8. WIA participants will engage in am `.integrated program that offers stud~vrtts a strong artistic, literacy, and technology program thart will empower youth by enhancing their pelf-esteem, teach responsibility, technical and mentoring<skills, and accelerate their learning. Students will train 3 days per week during after-school hours, and/or weekends, two hours per day durur-•g a period of one year, WIA participants will receive a miinimum of 1 hr. of basic skills (structured one-one one literacy tutoring and small group instruction} each day they attend the program, and 1 hour of artistic and/or technology training. Afters period of 6 months of training, all VJ1A participants will be provided an opportunity to transition unto a "mentor-ing job". OCCTAC will train ;and supervise WIA participants into paid/unpaid positions contingent upon participants' literacy develiopment, and performance levels as stated in their individual educational plans. R'hich R'IA pupulation will the program recruit and serve? OCCT AC will recruit and serve In-School and Out-of-School Santa Ana at-risk and disabled youth between the ages of 14-18 vrs., from limited educational and financial resources, history of academic probt~ems, suspended or expelled, and living in "high risk" areas tin Santa Ana; as well as o_ they eligibility criteria to qualify for WIA Title 1B youth services. lndieate hors many participants to be served. Our ~rog~ram proposes to serve approximately 50 narticipants: Twenty-five Santa Ana Unified School Dls-tr~Ct (SAUSD) students enrolled in Alternative School prog~.ums, and twenty-five Santa Ana students that have been expulsed from the district and/or parents have requested Alternative County programs. Desc-ibe your recruitment plan. OCC'TAC will collaborate with the Santa Ana Unified Schoen! Dtistrict and the County of Orange to recruiii and refer potential WIA participants to the Santa Aria WilO/R/K Center for eligibility deter ;~ination. OCCTAC will work with the SAUSD'S Director of Pupil Services, the Office of Student Discipline Services, and the Pupil Placement Cotnmiittee to recruit in-school youth from alternative schools, as well as youth to be expulsed by the Faipil 1Paacement Cormnittee, and placed in Out~~f School programs. In addition, because of our strong &aartmership with the Deparhnent of Special Education, OCCTAC can also recruit students with 1P,atnLng disabilities at these sites. The recruntntent process will also include pronidi~7g i~ajormation ['i~ia broclun~es, Elvers) to school admi:~nistrators, parents, and prospective students in the communut}~ of Santa Ana to encourage participation in our afler-school program.