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involved by becoming peer mentors. Therefore, continued involvement and peer mentoring will serve as intermediate outcome measures. Long-term outcomes (i.e., high school graduation, trade-school or college emollment/completion): Projected percent of youth who achieve one or combination of objective = 75% (n=22.5; N= 30) The attention to literacy and numeracy competency, along with 3.D-BPA is for the purpose ensuring high school graduation and subsequent job placement and success, trade school or college bound trajectory. Thus, high school diploma, job placement and success, and trade school or college enrollment/completion will serve as long-term outcome measures. GOALS/OBJECTIVES AND PERFORMANCE LEVLES Basic Program Approach! Academic Assistance: Membership on the boxing team has been an incentiye to the youth to maintain 2.0 GPA We plan to capitalize on the galvanizing properties ofthe boxing actiyity by increasing the required GPA to 3.0. In order to accomplish this we will offer 1 hour tutoring prior to boxing activity. We currently have access to classrooms at Garfield Middle School, across the street from out boxing club, to use for our after-school clubs. Therefore, it should not pose a problem to get access to a classroom for the purpose of tutoring our boxing club members. Moreover, we have teachers and student teachers available and willing to tutor for this purpose. We would also utilize this time to increase literacy and numeracy scores on the T ABE. Case Managementllntake Assessment: Anthony Serrano, Sports Club Director, serves as our case manager. He will provide strong collaborative and strong case management that will enabling "at-risk" to transition to a positive future through the sport of boxing, mentoring, tutoring. He will motivate and coordinate services and information. Anthony and the teacher/tutor will work together to motivate and coordinate services and information, prepare youth for post secondary educational opportunities, provide linkages between academic and occupational learning, and/or preparation for unsubsidized employment/training opportunities, as appropriate. Both will meet 5 days a week, Anthony will meet 6 days a week, with WIA grant recipients as a group. They will keep detail record of attitudes, behaviors and performance on each youth involved in the program. The teacher will be in charge of case notes for the tutoring aspect of the program. Anthony and the teacher will meet once a week to compare case notes. Anthony, on weekly basis, will review each case record, and develop individual case plan, accordingly. He will provide special counseling for special needs (e.g., we currently have a senior high school student who receives academic and career guidance counseling from Anthony). If a particular problem arises that falls outside Anthony's ability to assess and intervene, he will present 4