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Orange County Conservation Corps <br />Santa Ana Workforce Investment Board <br />Request for Proposal <br />The Youth Service Provider Network <br />PY 2008/2009 <br />event or meeting. outside of Santa Ana but passes the information on to family/friends/co- <br />workers that live in Santa Ana. <br />Describe how adeauate staffing will be maintained to ensure success of this program. <br />Two full-time OCCC staff will be responsible for recruiting Santa Ana youth. The OCCC <br />Corpsmember Recruiter is responsible for recruiting for all OCCC programs and will allocate a <br />portion of their time to recruiting Santa Ana youth. The OCCC Program Specialist (case <br />manager) assigned to the Santa Ana WIA contract will be responsible for ensuring enrollment <br />goals are met and will also allocate a portion of their time to recruitment. Selected Santa Ana <br />corpsmembers will be trained to accompany staff and provide "peer recruitment" to assist staff <br />with street outreach and help organize and manage OCCC booths at the various Santa Ana job <br />fairs and community events. Other OCCC staff may also provide recruitment through ongoing <br />collaborations and networking with other agencies county-wide as in-kind support of this <br />proposal. <br />Main Purpose of Program <br />Indicate what the program will accomplish and how it fits in with WIA goals. <br />OCCC's Organizational Purpose is to empower youth and young adults to become self-sufficient <br />members of their community. The OCCC accomplishes this by offering various programs that <br />provide opportunities for educational, professional, and personal development that will provide <br />the necessary skills to develop and maintain a positive work ethic and provide a lasting <br />foundation to enable youth to enter the workforce and be successful, productive, members of <br />society. <br />The OCCC's approach to employability teaches teamwork, cooperation, and a positive work <br />ethic by utilizing work projects that are beneficial to the community and the environment. The <br />approach also creates an atmosphere where corpsmembers have the chance to develop on an <br />educational, professional, and personal level. This long term, holistic approach to working with <br />youth, assists them in overcoming the multiple barriers that most at-risk youth have in their <br />lives. Without a holistic approach, youth may complete a short term training course, earn a <br />valuable certificate to get a job, but not be able to maintain that job due to their inability to <br />deal with personal issues that cause them to have poor attendance and/or not be productive in <br />the workplace. While short term training programs and workshops have a place in youth and <br />workforce development, a more long term, holistic approach is needed by many, and especially <br />the neediest, youth to ensure that they have the time and support to overcome the multiple <br />barriers they face to becoming lifelong learners, trainable, employable, and self-sufficient <br />members of society. <br />The majority of the neediest at-risk youth the Youth Council is committed to serving and which <br />the OCCC serves basically need to learn how to work and go to school. For various reasons <br />these youth have not been able to stay in school and/or maintain employment. Sometimes the <br />OCCC is the first job for some of the youth that come to the OCCC. Therefore, OCCC is not a <br />Page 7 of 24 <br />