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<br />Description of Outcome Tracking System: <br /> <br />Please describe your organization's outcome tracking system that will enable you to fulfill the outcome selected above. <br />The Centro presently provides Santa Ana unique music programs. The requested funds will assure that these programs continue. <br />The music program presently consists of three separate music classes based on Son Jarocho, traditional dance music from Veracruz. It <br />employs guitar-like instruments called Hjaranas" (small eight-string guitar) and percussive instruments such as "el cajon", which is a <br />wooden box played like a drum, a "'marimba}" (mix between el cajon and a finger piano), "requintos" small five string guitars, and <br />dancers who provide percussion with their footwork. The students not only receive instruction, but also perform under a group called <br />"Son del Centro", This year we plan to re-activate our wind instrument program, teaching students how to play instruments such as the <br />saxophone, clarinet, trumpet, baritone and trombone. The students are taught how to read music and experience what it is to perform. <br />The primary goal of these programs is to continue to serve the needs oflow-income, at-risk families, especially adolescents who have <br />limited access to music and artistic programs. It is well known that teenagers without extra-curricular activities are at a higher risk of <br />becoming involved in undesirable behavior (gangs, drugs, etc.), particularly in the afternoon hours after schooL <br />Goal: To provide after school music education to Santa Ana disadvantaged youth and families. Objective: To enroll as many <br />students as possible (no less than 30) who will learn how to read music and play an instrument and will also be giving back to the <br />community by performing in musical groups. Instruction will fuse music and dance into a learning format that explores interactive <br />artistic mediums as a tool for self-empowerment and social change. The grant funds will be utilized for rent, music instructors, music <br />instruments, and an assistant to the executive director who is coordinating the program. <br /> <br />Exhibit A-I <br />Page 3 of 4 <br />