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Orange Counry Fouth Commission <br />Santa Ana, California <br />Element Number 4: As appropriate paid and unpaid work experience, including <br />internships and job shadowng. <br />With a new emphasis on older age youth, the Orange County Youth Coni russion is <br />adding a new employment mentoring component to move the young people into career <br />exploration, job shadowing and on-site youth internships, along with successful life skills <br />education and employment goal -setting with goal attainment activities. <br />The Orange County Youth Commission will enlist 7 adult mentors who will commit to <br />mentoring three youth over a period of 7 months. Individual mentors will come to the <br />boxing club gym and share their professions. describing what they do at work, and how <br />they prepared themselves for their positions. We will be seeking out mentors from a <br />variety of employment situations. Student clients will listen to the seven different <br />presentations and indicate which profession and mentor interests them the most. An <br />inventory of employment interests will also be given to WLA students. Students will then <br />be assigned by the boxing club staff to one of the seven adult mentors with the goal of <br />linking them to mentors who share the same interests and desired employment pathways. <br />A job shadowing experience will then be scheduled for each of the mentors and their <br />assigned three WIA students. <br />The adult mentors will also provide on site internships paid for by the WIA program. <br />Mentors will also be invited to visit and attend 3 or more of the life skill classes along <br />lorlig worklic wfILIi âś“iChael Gonzalez From <br />with their assigned IJiA CiicritS. We are expi <br />the Bovs Scouts Learning for Life At -Promise Youth Program to develop a 12 life skill <br />program that is tailor made for our students individual needs and employment <br />preparation. Additionally we will be working with a current adult mentor, Mr. David <br />Fuchs to assist us in administering.. coordinating and recruiting adult mentors for this new <br />program component. <br />Students will be asked to discuss life lessons with their mentors making the lessons <br />interactive. The Clients will be asked to attend classes for 12 consecutive weeks. The <br />lessons will be designed to be interactive as students will be asked to meet in small <br />groups and discuss the lessons with their mentors. Topics of discussion will include <br />anger management, financial responsibility, with such topics as saving, budgeting, <br />banking, credit cards, planning for emergencies and retirement. family relationships, <br />avoiding negative influences from drug abuse, alcoholism. gang involvement and <br />premarital sex. Additionally clients will learn how to seek help, engage in proper <br />recreation, learn decision making skills and engage in goal setting activities. Students <br />will set individual personal goals with their mentors. looking at immediate, intermediate <br />and long term goals. Together the three clients and the mentors will chart a plan to <br />achieve their individual goals. <br />Mentors, after attending 3 or more of the 12 week, (3 month) educational discussions, <br />will participate in the goal setting activities and then continue to meet with their three <br />WIA Clients on a weekly_ basis for an additional two months.. as the students work on <br />their immediate goals to get on the pathway to meeting their personal goals. Our adult <br />mentors will hold these young people accountable to specific activities that will help <br />n <br />