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Orange CounnY }ovth Commission <br />Santa Ana, California <br />Those youth who have aaduated from the program are welcome to return to listen to <br />these presentations, as well. to gain additional motivation and insight. <br />This is one avenue we intend to use to guide our youth to gain career awareness; make <br />career decisions and plans; and understand market needs, trends and opportunities. <br />We also incorporate a peer mentoring program where those who have completed the <br />program can return to mentor younger, newer Club members. This has a two-way <br />positive effect. <br />Character Building. Uniquely, we incorporate character development curriculum in all <br />our tutoring and mentoring programs. Here the program focuses on seven character traits: <br />1) Respect; 2) Responsibility; 3) Integrity:. 4) Compassion; 5) Perseverance: 6) Initiative <br />and T) Forgiveness. All of these character traits are necessary traits to prove successful in <br />academic and career pursuits and accomplishments. We utilize the sport of boxing to <br />instill these character qualities within the boxing club members. In turn, these character <br />qualities ensure that our youth will become ethical and responsible employees after they <br />graduate from high school. trade school and,/or college. <br />Work Experience. Currently. we have two prior or regular boxing club members who <br />are paid employees. We plan to continue this practice of providing work experience to <br />promising young men and yeomen in our program. <br />Special Events. Youth will also benefit from special events provided by the Club and <br />OCYC. These include participating in boxing tournaments, holiday events. movie <br />outings, camping, family events and more. <br />Hours of Operation. The Club is open from 3 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. five weekdays each <br />week. Tutoring occurs from 3 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Coaching and participating in boxing <br />occurs from 4 to 7:30 p.m. The length of this program will continue beyond the 1 -year <br />grant agreement because it has become a core program component. <br />Staff Interaction with Participants. Club staff have regular and close interaction with <br />participants. Club staff provide tutoring and instruction on boxing, and can observe a <br />great deal due to the manageable number of youth present at any one time in the program. <br />GOALS/OBJECTIVES AND PERFORMANCE LEVELS <br />Performance Success: <br />The Orange County Youth Commission has served Santa Ana imler city youth since <br />1997. We have been extremely successful in redirecting youth who attend our after- <br />school programs. In fact, we have requests from non -participating schools to open clubs <br />on their campus, and have plans to do so. Many of our boxing club members have raised <br />their GPA from as low as 1.0 to 2.0 and higher. A few have shown marked improvement <br />as high as 3.5 and up. The reason for this kind of success is that the boxing club serves a <br />10 <br />