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Orange County Youth Commission <br />Santa Ana, California <br />Special Events. Youth will also benefit from special events provided by the Club <br />and OCYC. These include participating in boxing tournaments, holiday events, <br />movie 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 <br />each week. Tutoring occurs from 3 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Coaching and participating <br />in boxing occurs from 4 to 7:30 p.m. The length of this program will continue <br />beyond the 1-year grant agreement because it has become a core program <br />component. <br />Staff Interaction with Participants. Club staff has regular and close interaction <br />with participants. Club staff provide tutoring and instruction on boxing, and can <br />observe a great deal due to the manageable number of youth present at any one <br />time in the program. <br />GOALS/OBJECTIVES AND PERFORMANCE LEVELS <br />Performance Success: <br />The Orange County Youth Commission has served Santa Ana inner city youth <br />since 1997. We have been extremely successful in redirecting youth who attend <br />our after-school programs. In fact, we have requests from non-participating <br />schools to open clubs on their campus, and have plans to do so. Many of our <br />boxing club members have raised their GPA from as low as 1.0 to 2.0 and <br />higher. A few have shown marked improvement as high as 3.5 and up. The <br />reason for this kind of success is that the boxing club serves atwo-fold purpose. <br />First the prospect of becoming a member of the boxing team, alone, serves as an <br />incentive for the youth to meet required GPA. Second, the sport of boxing serves <br />as a tool to teach necessary character qualities to meet academic and career <br />goals and succeed in them once they are met. Therefore, it is a perfect venue <br />for teaching necessary character traits to make and meet academic and career <br />goals. Moreover, the incentive to become a "winning" boxing team member <br />galvanizes them to meet the academic requirement to join the team. <br />Short-term outcomes (i.e., maintain or increased TARE scores, documented <br />positive character change): Projected percent of youth who achieve one or both <br />objective = 75% <br />We intend to give our youth a pre and post literacy/numeracy test. In order to <br />ensure meeting literacy and numeracy standards set by WIA. Detailed case <br />notes will provide evidence of positive character change. <br />Intermediate outcome (i.e., continued program involvement and peer mentor <br />involvement): Projected percent of youth who achieve one of combination of <br />objectives = 70% <br />11 <br />