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College/Career Transition: Program 6 ACCESS safe Schools & Support Services Santa Ana Workforce Investment Board'Youth Council 2. Indicate how mane participants to be served. This proposal will exit 20 participants by June 30. 2009. All students enrolled in the College,'Career Transition Program will meet the following eligibility requirements: • attend high school classes at an ACCESS alternative education site. • be authorized to work in the United States. have legal resident documents. and be in compliance with the Selective Ser-\,ice Act: • reside in Santa Ana. • low income (95% of participants served will meet the income criterion): In addition. they will meet one or more of the following categories: • be basic skills deficient: • a school dropout. • homeless, runaway or foster child, • pregnant or parenting youth. • a vouth offender: • or require additional assistance to complete an educational program secure employment such as: have a disability, Limited English Proficiency, family history of long-term welfare dependency, gang affiliation. are an emancipated minor. or lack work history. 3. Describe how this program.fts in with programs currently being of by your agency. In the tenuous environment of educating today's high -risk youth, services need to be relevant, impact significant enough to effect positive change. The timely. and creative in order to make an ACCESS philosophy is to create learning communities committed to academic excellence.. social and economic opportunity, and personal integrity. ACCESS aims to provide instructors wlio maintain an academic focus. use iimovative teaching strategies. and engage each student in learning. ACCESS offers many educational options and modalities to increase students' academic success. These modalities include: day school. where students attend school daily for four hours of instruction.. with their teacher for one hour a week and com contract learning. where students meetplete assignments on their own through out the week. outreach. where a teacher meets with the student one hour a week at a location within the community and students complete assignments on their own through out the week, referrals to adult education when deemed the most appropriate. setting for the student Students are taught in large and small groups, or on an individual basis. with no class size ever exceeding a 20:1 student to teacher ratio. The Title I Program provides a Tutor to work with students on core subject remedial tutoring. For the past three years. ACCESS Safe Schools has offered a Transition Specialist to work one-on-one with students who are nearing graduation and looking to move on to college or career. These transition services are currently being offered in will bring transition services to the Santa Ana other regions of Orange County. This proposal commun ty. Through the WIA grant, ACCESS teachers. Title I Tutors. and a Transition Specialist will form the Transition Team and be specifically assigned to serve the targeted schools. Each elements of the Transition Team will work in tandem and bring their area of expertise to the partnership. Together. they will increase student success in Santa Ana and meet the outlined WI_A performance goals.