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Adult Mentoring for the period of participation and a subsequent period, for a total of not less than 12 months Follow-up services for minimum of 12 months after the completion of participation as appropriate 5. Indicate planned outcomes. The following outcomes will be achieved: 6. Describe the basic program approach (workshop/classroom/in the community). The primary goal of the Foster Youth Liaison Project is to create access to WIA 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 WIA providers throughout the City of Santa Ana and County of Orange, the Foster Youth Liaison Project will enroll 15 foster/emancipated youth in the WIA 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 three peer mentors will be available in the ORC 15 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 service activities, leadership opportunities, tutoring, etc. 7. Describe how you will conduct outreach and recruitment. Include how enrollment goals will be met by the second quarter 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 15 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 YSPN sites and provide marketing information in the monthly ILP newsletters. 8. 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 planning of the annual youth forum and youth job fair. They will utilize these interactions to inform potential participants and partner agencies about the Foster Youth Liaison Project and distribute marketing materials. Furthermore, the Orangewood Children's Foundation will utilize its current partnerships with community and faith base, educational, governmental, 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. OCF/Foster Youth Liaison Project