ORANGE COUNTY CONSERVATION CORPS (2) - 2009

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Orange County Conservation Corps Santa Ana Workforce Investment Board -The Youth Service Provider Network Request for Proposal PY 2009/2010 POST CORPS TRACKING: Unspecified time, available as long as former corpsmembers seek help and support, minimum of 12 months 1. One-on-one follow up; monthly contact to monitor, update, and revise 12-month plan as needed; 2. One-on-one employment search and support; 3. One-on-one case management and support services 2. Describe how the participant flow will occur. Please refer to "Describe the overall services that will be made available to the WIA participant" (page 12) above and the "corpsmember Flow Chart" provided as an attachment to the proposal. Both of these describe how participant flow will occur. Generally, there are 4 phases to OCCC's program and the corpsmember flow normally is: • Work/school: corpsmembers spend the majority of their time working and going to school. This may last from 3 months to 24 months depending on the number of high school credits needed for graduation. • Life Skills/Corps-2-Career: Once corpsmembers earn their high school diploma or if they have a diploma at the time of hire they enter the Life Skills and Corps-2-Career phase of the OCCC. corpsmembers normally spend 3-6 months completing a variety of activities designed to help them become self sufficient, find employment and/orenroll inpost-secondary instruction. • Program Completion: Once all program components have been completed, the corpsmember has 60 days to exit the program into work and/or school with help and support from staff. This time may be extended based on individual needs. • Follow-up: Minimum of 12 months follow up support from staff to remain employed and stay in school; contact at least monthly if not more frequent to monitor and revise 12 month follow up plan; Not all corpsmembers complete all four phases as some choose to leave for a job or school and enter the follow-up phase as soon as they earn their high school diploma. All corpsmembers, regardless of their reason for leaving the OCCC, are included in the 12 month follow up phase and have access to OCCC staff and resources (computer lab, fax, voicemail) for maintaining employment, job searches, updating resumes, contacting employers, scheduling interviews, enrolling in advanced training or college, help with filling out financial aid forms, and other support needed to pursue post-000C employment and education Many program services overlap and occur simultaneously during the program. OCCC staff are cross- trained so that corpsmembers can receive services from various program staff if their assigned staff person is not available. Additionally: Pro ram Activit Duration OCCC Staff Responsible Outreach/Recruitment Ongoing -open entry • Orientation Specialist • WIA Program Specialist Eligibility Ongoing • WIA Program Specialist Intake One-week Orientation as needed Orientation Specialist (generally bi-monthly) WIA Program Specialist • Teacher/Registrar Assessment • WIA • WIA Program Specialist • Education Director of Education Page 14 of 21