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year olds, youth mentoring, parenting education, health accessing and health education, trauma reduction classes, English classes, vocational training, marriage/relationship education, job placement and following up, supportive services, and information and referral. 1. The current number of full time and part time personnel employed, average annual operating budget and sources of revenue. We currently have 12 full-time and 13 part-time staff. Our operating budget for the current fiscal year is $1,301,211. Our principal sources of revenue are the U.S. Office of Minority Health ($314,100), the U.S. Department of Education ($209,544), the U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement ($250,000), the Santa Ana Empowerment Corporation ($$156,319), and the Orange County Social Services Agency ($124,495). 2. How long our organization has been serving Santa Ana youth. The Cambodian Family has worked informally with neighborhood youths since we moved to our current location in 1983. Our formal Youth Program began in 1990 with a grant from the U.S. Department of Justice for delinquency prevention. The program expanded in 1997 to focus on high school aged youths with support from the Federal Office of Refugee Resettlement. Since then we have served over 100 school-aged youths and their parents each year. 3. The kind of impact our services have made to the youth in the community. In the past year, our Youth Program served 154 youths and parents (87 youths, 67 parents). Our Mentoring Program matched 40 mentors with neighborhood youths between 4th and 8th grade. To date', 94 of our Youth Program alumni have graduated high school and gone on to attend college. The graduation rate among Cambodian youths in our neighborhood has increased from 50% 10 years ago to 100% in recent years. Our agency and its leadership have received numerous awards for service to the community. In 1992, we received a Gould-Wysinger Award from the federal Department of Justice (DOJ), Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Program, for outstanding work in preventing delinquency. In 1994, we were recognized as a model program in the US Senate Judiciary Committee's publication, "Catalogue of Hope: Crime Prevention Programs for At-Risk Children." Just last month (October 2009), the Director of our Youth Program, Ms. Phalen Lim, was awarded a California Peace Prize from The California Wellness Foundation for outstanding contributions in preventing youth violence in the Minnie Street neighborhood. B. Experience 1. Outline of all youth programs that our agency has operated in the past 2 years. Discussion of past performance as related to WIA performance goals. (Organizations with no experience in providing WIA services should explain unique advantages or value associated with their proposal. ) Our After School Youth Program, now called Plan Ahead, has operated continuously for nearly 20 years. The Program stresses positive development in four areas: (1) academic - improvement (tutoring, homework assistance, computer lab), (2) leadership development (life skills classes, community service, youth advisory board, cultural performing dance EXHIBIT A 12