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Orange County Youth Commission <br />Santa Ana, California <br />them reach their inmlediate goals and move them towards their intermediate and long <br />term vision. One follow up call will be made by the mentor a month after the goal setting <br />and goal achieving activities are over. After that staff at the boxing club will continue <br />with follow up monthly phone calls to check if they are on track with working toward <br />their life goal, and achieving meaningful employment. <br />A celebration party to mark the 3 month achievement of completion of the 12 Life and <br />Goals Setting lessons or materials will be provided and job internships. Students will <br />receive certificates of completion and will be rewarded for perfect attendance and <br />satisfactory attendance. At six months, a special Certificate and gift will be presented to <br />the mentors marking their six month participation and an end of the employment <br />mentoring process. <br />Character development is a unique emphasis we have incorporated into our after-school <br />programs. Our curriculum encourages responsibility and other positive social behaviors <br />so vouth can live out ethical lifestyles and succeed in their future goals including <br />employment opportunities. Our goal is to provide these young people with the character <br />education necessary to make personal, academic, career -goals and meet these goals <br />successfully in the process of training them in the sport of boxing. This also aids in <br />providing our youth the opportunity to develop positive social behaviors and life skills <br />that will help them acquire and retain future employment. These character traits include: <br />1) Respect; 2) Responsibility: 3) Integrin, 4) Compassion; 5) Perseverance; 6) Initiative <br />and 7) Forgiveness. All of these character traits are necessary to pursue academic and <br />career goals and be successful once goals are achieved. They also support conflict - <br />resolution skills and give youth inner -strength to work through challenges in life. These <br />character traits are those found in productive workers and citizens. They represent the <br />type of character we appreciate in our government and business leaders. <br />Planned Outcomes: <br />Short-term outcomes include maintaining or increasing GPA, attendance, literacy and <br />numeracy scores on the TABE from pre to post testing. Intermediate outcome measures <br />include continued involvement with the after-school boxing club and/or peer mentoring, <br />improvement in attitude. Long-term outcome includes earning high-school diploma, job <br />placement and trade school or college entry and completion. Case notes in each <br />individual's case file will serve to evaluate their individual academic goal attainment and <br />character development. We want to encourage and support students so they will stay in <br />school and graduate, and to help them find the thing they love to do and pursue that <br />through further training. <br />Basic Program Approach/ Academic Assistance: <br />Our basic program approach is to utilize the Boxing Club, which is in a community-based <br />setting, as a means for academic assistance. tutoring, mentoring and college/career <br />pathing. The youth from the community are attracted to the prospect of joining the <br />boxing team and attending programs in the facility, an authentic boxing club located in <br />5 <br />