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Orange County Youth Commission <br />Santa Ana, California <br />leadership training. All of these youth require incentives to participate and some of these <br />youth are on probation, or in foster care. Many of these youth live with relatives other <br />than father and mother and others have only one parent. <br />The Santa Ana Boxing Club is one of 18 after-school clubs operated by OCYC. Most <br />clubs are located in school settings but this one is unique in that it located in an authentic <br />boxing club within the local community. <br />3. How WIA fits into the Orange County Youth Commission's current program: <br />The current clients of the Santa Ana Boxing Club come to the Boxing Club to look for <br />help. We have been known for helping the youth to stay out of trouble, getting help <br />finding a job and help with school work. This has a lot to do with our Boxing Coach <br />Anthony Serrano. Anthony has been with the Orange County Youth Commission for ten <br />years. Anthony has the ability to make everyone who walks in the door feel welcome and <br />have value. This is a feeling that many of the youth do not get from the adults in their <br />lives. By using time, in the ring as a reward Coach Anthony instills into the youth the <br />advantages of being driven to accomplish their goals. Being that the WIA program is goal <br />oriented and the Boxing Program is goal oriented; the two programs mesh together very <br />well. <br />The funding that we receive from the WIA Grant allows us to help more youth to succeed <br />and to have pride in what they are accomplishing. <br />4. This Program Addresses the following Elements: <br />Element Number 1. Tutoring, study skills training, and instruction, leading to completion <br />of secondary school, including dropout prevention strategies. <br />We actively provide tutoring in all of our after-school clubs and, in particular, the Santa <br />Ana Boxing Club. There is a designated area in the Club where students can utilize <br />computers for homework. This area also serves as the tutoring area which we tutor youth <br />daily from 3 to 4 pm and on Saturdays for 2 hours. We would like to expand our tutoring <br />area by renting the adjacent space next door. We have been offered this space to rent out <br />and with the help of this W1A grant we can enlarge our space and have a full time <br />tutoring facility. <br />We collaborate with Santa Ana College, Vanguard University, Biola University and other <br />schools to place college students within the Club for tutoring. Here, they work one-on- <br />one with youth identifying and addressing academic deficits. All tutors are trained by <br />Project Manager, Kate Medina. Kate has been the director of two different reading <br />programs, Talking Pages and ABC Learn. For three years she had programs for these <br />companies through the "No Child Left Behind Act". She personally has also tutored over <br />60 children. Kate understands that the basics of reading, writing and math need to be <br />achieved before the child or young adult can go on to any type of further education. <br />Each student receives a pre-test to identify their current academic status and to identify <br />areas that need improvement (reading skills, vocabulary, comprehension, basic math <br />skills, etc.). The tutors establish an academic plan with the student to help them reach <br />certain goals such as grades in individual classes to improve their overall GPA. They <br />discuss steps to reach those goals and monitor progress toward that goal. <br />3 <br />EXHIBIT A