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Orange County Youth Commission <br />Santa Ana, California <br />goal setting will be added. Anew employee, yet to be named will administrate <br />the program, recruiting adult mentors to commit to sharing their career, taking <br />students on job shadowing experiences, internship opportunities, discussing life <br />skills with the teens, helping .them set personal goals and monitoring their <br />progress towards meeting their short term employment goals. Should individual <br />mentors not be in the position to provide the internship opportunity we will seek <br />other employers to provide the internship experience. We provide stipends for <br />the work experience or internship and or special services if books and other <br />study materials are needed, uniforms or clothing, as well as bus passes, through <br />the WIA Program. <br />Project Manager: Kate Medina will over see the tutoring program and mentoring <br />program. With the experience of owning and running a family business for 24 <br />years, Kate has the ability to over see this program to make sure that the clients <br />are getting the training, technical knowledge and proper skills that are needed to <br />succeed in this program and in the world. Tutors will receive training from the <br />Project Manager who will assist them in case management. And, the Project <br />Manager will train the tutors in academic strategies and curriculum to reach <br />academic gains and achievement goals. Kate Medina was the Director of two <br />reading programs in Orange County, ABC Learn and Talking Pages for three <br />years. <br />Our educational strategy includes: pre-testing with TABE, assistance with <br />homework, together identifying academic weaknesses, providing remediation <br />activities and lessons addressing weaknesses, identifying and maximizing <br />academic strengths, and helping them to recognize where they excel and how <br />their strengths and the activities they enjoy can be applicable to specific careers <br />or academic pursuits. Collaboratively with staff, clients will set individual <br />academic goals dealing with basic skills attainment (numerology and literacy <br />gains) and discuss intermediate goals such finishing high school and long-range <br />vocational goals. <br />Case management will provide documentation of the interventions and progress <br />in attaining these goals. Apost-test will be given when a client exits the program. <br />Periodic testing may be given after 6 months and 9 months of the program to <br />assess progress and provide continuous improvement of the program design. <br />Once the client exits the program, staff will continue to follow up with the clients <br />for 12 months by phone calls, counseling and invitation to program activities. <br />The Sports Club Director will continue to attend youth development training by <br />attending seminars and workshops that are available in the community. Last <br />year, he was enrolled in three workshops which included the topic of dealing with <br />Adolescent Behavior Dysfunctions. Anthony Serrano is key to the success of this <br />program. His ability to relate to the clients and to mentor the clients on a daily <br />basis is unprecedented. He models an example of hard work and determination <br />9 <br />