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Orange Count)' Youth Commission Santa Ana, Ca1tfornia Character Building. Uniquely, we incorporate character development curriculum in all our tutoring and mentoring programs. Here the pragran1 focuses on seven character traits: 1) Respect; 2) Responsibility; 3) Integrity; 4) Compassion; 5) Perseverance; 6) Initiative and 7) Forgiveness. All of these character traits are necessary traits to prove successful in academic and career pursuits and accomplishments. We utilize the sport of boxing to instill these character qualities within the boxing club members. In turn, these character qualities ensure that our youth will become ethical and responsible employees after they graduate from high school, trade school and/or college. Work Experience. Currently, we have two prior or regular boxing club members who are paid employees. We plan to continue this practice of providing work experience to promising young men and women in our program. Special Events. Youth will also benefit from special events provided by the Club and OCYC. These include participating in boxing tournaments, holiday events, movie outings, camping, family events and more. Hours of Operation. The Club is open from 3 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. five weekdays each week. Tutoring occurs from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. Coaching and participating in boxing occurs from 4 to 7:30 p.m. The length of this program will continue beyond the I-year grant agreement because it has become a core program component. Staff Interaction with Participants. Club staff have regular and close interaction with participants. Club staff provide tutoring and instruction on boxing, and can observe a great deal due to the manageable number of youth present at anyone time in the program. GOALS/OBJECTIVES AND PERFORMANeE LEVELS Performance Success: The Orange County Youth Commission has served Santa Ana inner city youth since 1997. We have been extremely successful in redirecting youth who attend our after- school programs. In fact, we have requests from non-participating schools to open clubs on their campus, and have plans to do so. Many of our boxing club members have raised their GP A from as low as 1.0 to 2.0 and higher. A few have shovm marked improvement as high as 3.5 and up. The reason for this kind of success is that the boxing club serves a two-fold purpose. First the prospect of becoming a member of the boxing team, alone, serves as an incentive for the youth to meet required GP A. Second, the sport of boxing serves as a tool to teach necessary character qualities to meet academic and career goals and succeed in them once they are met. Therefore, it is a perfect venue for teaching necessary character traits to make and meet academic and career goals. Moreover, the incentive to become a "winning" boxing team member galvanizes them to meet the academic requirement to join the team. Short-term outcomes (i.e., maintain or increased T ABE scores, documented positive character change): Projected percent of youth who achieve one or both objective = 75%