WSA_Youth and Family Master Plan Phase I - September 2009

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AISS 20 9,000 Bower's Kidseum 60 5,000 Latino Youth Leadership 50 5,000 CRIME & VIOLENCE PREVENTION Institute Grace Family Resource Center 150 5,000 Community Court Foundation* 190 15,000 Network SPECIALIZED YOUTH SERVICES OC Bar Foundation- Programs 160 20,000 Short Stop CSP Youth Shelter- Huntington 28 12,500 OC Bar Foundation- Stop short 70 15,000 Beach of Addiction Blind Children's Learning 55 18,500 Westend C.O.P. 1,000 8,500 Center *Those organizations with a "*"indicated that their program does not explicitly support youth. Overall, of the entire CDBG budget for 2008-2009, $1,022,832 (or 15% of the total funds) was spent on community program funding.23 Of this amount, approximately 73% ($745,832} of the program funding supported youth programs.24 Of the amount spent on youth programming, 47% of the funds went to physical activity orobesity-prevention programming Beginning of each 5-year cycle, the City of Santa Ana sets priorities for CDBG funding. However, due to the current economic situation, for the 2009-2010 FY, the CDBG funds have been re-focused internally toward the City of Santa Ana programming for youth and families. In particular, no nonprofit organizations are set to receive funds (as of May 2009) except the Senior Serve food program, operating at City of Santa Ana Southwest Senior Center, Santa Ana Senior Center and Vietnamese Center. The Santa Ana library, PRIDE program and police helicopterwill share the bulk of the CDBG funding to close current budget shortfalls. Project PRIDE received $152,000 in CDBG funding for 09-10 and the Library received $200,000 for its tutoring program; these are both active prevention-based programs. The PRCSA tutoring and PRIDE programs provide added value to gang prevention and obesity epidemic. Project PRIDE is the city's gang prevention program and includes Family PRIDE Clubs at each recreation center, as well as a kayaking program. The program engages families in recreation programs that act as a deterrent to gangs, especially for the teens. Many of the activities focus on establishing a healthy lifestyle, including health and nutrition, physical fitness, and community service. All family members contribute as volunteers to the agency programs. Perhaps in the future, Santa Ana could consider a goal of 75% of program funds going toward youth programs that have an explicit linkage to either decreasing the obesity epidemic or gang prevention. This would ensure a continuation of much-needed youth services provided by either community organizations or the city. When we look closely at the City of Santa Ana's programming, we see several areas of activity for youth. In particular, the summer programming offered by the city at its seven recreation sites served 813 youth last year (2008). AFTERNOON ONLY DAY-LONG / Logan / Memorial / Santa Anita / Salgado / Triangle (closed 2009) / Sandpointe DAY-LONG / EI Salvador / Jerome (set to re-open fall 2010) 23 According to the 2008-2009 Action Plan (Santa-ana.org/cda/default.asp), $1,022,832 will be spent on Public Services programs. 24 This percentage takes into account total amounts listed in table above, not weighted for those programs who indicated adults are also served, as that was not possible to separate out given the format of the data.