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<br />Provided 3,66] families with young children with health assessments and links to health <br />insurance, immunizations and primary care medical providers, and over 8,700 home visits <br />through the ProjectConnections.FRC Health Access program. <br />Provided over 99 local nonprofit agencies with quality trainings and assessments through <br />CONNECT. focusing on strengthening organizational practices and individual leadership <br />skills. <br /> <br />Experience <br />BrieJly outline all youth programs that your agency has operated during the last 2 years. <br />Children's Trust Fund: Provides financial assistance for higher education and special <br />needs such as summer camp, sports programs and counseling. <br />Guardian Scholars: ]n collaboration with local educational institutions, this program <br />provides scholarships and on-campus support including academic advisement, housing, <br />job assistance, tutoring, financial aid, and mentoring to help fonner foster youth navigate <br />the personal and academic challenges of university, community college, or trade school. <br />Rising Tide Communities: This collaborative transitional housing program offers <br />subsidized apartment living personal development activities, a mentor, job placement and <br />school assistance to prepare foster youth for a successful transition towards independence. <br />Peer Mentor Program: 'Y oung adults, once part of the dependency system and now <br />working or enrolled in college, work to help teens in the foster care system find their way <br />to success. <br />Independent Living Program: Education, career, relationship, and daily living skills <br />preparation for the time when they will be released from the dependency system. <br />Independent Living Coaches: One-on-one guidance and support to help foster youth <br />make a successful transition to independent living. <br />Orangewood Resource Center: Drop-in center for current and fonner Orange County <br />foster youth offering services they need to become independent adults, including <br />educational activitics and resources for jobs, college, housing, health, etc. <br />Transitional Housing Referral Clearinghouse: As Orange County's referral resource <br />center. we support current and developing transitional housing programs for fomJer foster <br />vouth. <br />Bridges to Higher Education: To increase high school graduation rates and admission to <br />college or trade schools, foster youth with academic potential for college success receive <br />intensive preparation for the demands and opportunities of higher education. <br />California Youth Connection: A leadership group made up of currcnt and emancipated <br />foster youth-acting as Orange County's representative to this statewide organization- <br />who participate in policy development and legislative change in the area of foster care. <br />Time Out for Parents: Short-tenn care for abused, neglected and at-risk children that <br />aIJows parents and foster parents to take a break and recharge the energy necessary to care <br />for them. <br /> <br />What kind of experience do you have in incorporating parents. youth and employers into your <br />programs~ <br />Due to the nature of the population we serve, we generaIJy do not have access to our client"s <br />parents. Foster youth are removed from their parents or custodians due to abuse or ncglect <br />and are under the supervision and care of the Orange County Social Services Agency. Many <br />of the clients wc serve reside in group homes, foster homes or with relative care-takers. <br />Orangewood Children's Foundation (OCF) is diligent about engaging potential employers. <br />our clients and their care-takers, which may include biological parents, by including them on <br /> <br />()l'PlFoster 'routh Lw.i~on Proll:cl <br /> <br />12 <br />