ORANGEWOOD CHILDREN’S FOUNDATION 2 - 2007

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Indicate planned outcomes. The following outcomes will be achieved: Po Illation hl-School Out-of-School A es 14-18 19-21 Enrollments 4 16 Per ormance Measurements YOUNGER YOL.:TH . OLDER YOUTH Skill 4 i Unsubsidized 12 Attainment Employment Diploma Rate Retention Rate! 13 Retention Rate Earnings Gain ! 53,622 Credential Rate 6 J The proposed outcomes will increase the number of youth to be served from 12 in PY 06/07 to 20 in PY 07/08. Describe the basic program approach (workshop/classroom/in the community). The primary goal of the Foster Youth Liaison Project is to create access to WlA services. Over the course of the project year, we will provide universal services through the Orangewood Resource Center (ORC) to 100 foster/emancipated youth. In addition to connecting youth to other WlA providers throughout the City of Santa Ana and County of Orange, the Foster Youth Liaison Project will enroll 20 foster/emancipated youth in the WIll. program. Peer mentors will provide intensive case management to foster/emancipated youth at a 5:1 participant to case manager (peer mentor) ratio. Each of the four peer mentors will be available in the ORC 10 hours per week. Depending on each participant's Individual Service Strategy, they may utilize our other services as needed such as our independent living skills workshops, community services activities, leadership opp011unities, tutoring, etc. Describe how you will conduct outreach and recruitment. Include how enrollment goals will be met by the second qualier of the contract. Our peer mentors will aggressively advertise and recruit for this opportunity in the first few months of the program year to enroll 20 participants. Outreach will include mailings to known foster/emancipated youth residing in Santa Ana, distribute marketing material at ILP workshops, the ORC, Orange County Social Services and YSP~ sites and provide marketing information in the monthly ILP newsletters. Describe collaborations/partnerships that will assist in recruitment. The peer mentors assigned to this project will participate in Santa Ana Youth Council activities which include: monthly Youth Council meetings and YSPN meetings and the platUJing of the annual youth forum and youth job fair. They will utilize these interactions to inform potential patiicipants and partner agencies about the Foster Youth Liaison Project and distribute marketing materials. Furthermore, the Orangewood Children's Foundation will utilize its current patinerships with community and faith base, educational, govemmental, and judicial and social services agencies to achieve the goal of serving foster youth in this project. For example, we will utilize our relationship with the County of Orange to advertise this project in Team Talk, which is a quarterly publication to foster parents.