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Orange Counts, Youth Commission <br />Santa .Ana. California <br />granunar). All require individual counseling and/or mentoring services to accomplish <br />educational goals. Many have past gang involvement. Others have been suspended or <br />expelled from school at one time or another and some are involved in alternative school <br />settings like the Communit}Day School, which refers students. A number of youth are <br />members of families on welfare. Several are youth in the foster -care system and others <br />are on parole. The majority is at -risk for school failure and dropping -out. Every element <br />of our after-school programs is geared to preventing school drop-out. <br />In 2006, OCYC provided a job for a young lady who has been through the foster care <br />system and subsequently hired her to work in the office keeping track of WIA receipts <br />and paperwork. We have several youth who attend the program who are on probation. <br />Staff is currently mentoring one _young man. a youth offender, and gave him a job <br />shadowing experience and he was hired to help with drug counseling. <br />We have young people who have been in the boxing program for three and five years. <br />One young man wanted to get into the Santa Ana ROTC but could not. Anthony Serrano, <br />Sports Club Director, encouraged him not to quit and he finally made it into the program <br />and is now in the military. He continues to come back to the gym when he is off to visit <br />Anthony. <br />One boy was a runaway from home for two weeks. Anthony noticed his eves were red <br />and at first suspected drug use. The boy continued to deny drug use. Anthony watched as <br />he left the gym and noticed he was crying. Anthony chased after him and learned that the <br />boyhad run awav from home for two weeks. Anthony, through counseling, was able to <br />reunite the boy and his mother. <br />Number of vouth served: The number of youth that attend the boxing club fluctuates <br />from 50 to over 100 with an average of 30 to 40 each day. However, we project that we <br />will case -manage and serve 20 youth who are "in -school" and "out of school" in this <br />special WIA program. We will also provide follow up services or contact after they exit <br />the program. Over the course of the 12- month period during the 2008-09 year, we will be <br />serving a total of 20 teens, 16-21 years of age, providing intensive tutoring, adult <br />mentors, job shadowing, life skills education and workplace internships. An important <br />part of our program is goal setting and goal attainment activities. Although our goal is to <br />have 20 enrolled in the program, we will continue to enroll students throughout the year. <br />They all live within inner city limit of Santa Ana, California, designated as a high crime <br />area. Those youth who will participate under this grant are legal U.S. residents who <br />reside in Santa Ana, California and are members of low-income families. They all <br />presently attend the Orange County Youth Commission's (OCYC) Santa Ana Boxing <br />Club. an after-school program that integrates academic tutoring, mentoring and other <br />supportive activities with athletic skill development and leadership training. All of these <br />youth require incentives to participate and some of these youth are on probation, or in <br />foster care. Many of these youth live with relatives other than father and mother and <br />many have only one parent. <br />2 <br />