ORANGE COUNTY YOUTH COMMISSION (3) - 2010

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Orange County Youth Commission Santa Ana, California 5. Youth that have exited the program. The Santa Ana Boxing Club is like a family to many of these youth. They come to the club not only to get help with their homework, school and getting a job. They come to the club for the encouragement and to stay in shape. Anthony Serrano is like a Father to many of these youth and they are anxious to tell him of their experiences and successes. Our relationship with these youths will continue as long as our doors are open. C. GOALS/OBJECTIVES AND PERFORMANCE LEVELS 1. Meeting Performance Goals: The Orange County Youth Commission has served Santa Ana inner city youth since 1997. We have been extremely successful in redirecting youth who attend our after- school programs. In fact, we have requests from non-participating schools to open clubs on their campus, and have plans to do so. Many of our boxing club members have raised their GPA from a low 1.0 to 2.0 and higher. A few have shown marked improvement as high as 3.5 and up. The reason for this kind of success is that the boxing club serves a two-fold purpose. First the prospect of becoming a member of the boxing team, alone, serves as an incentive for the youth to meet required GPA. Second, the sport of boxing serves as a tool to teach necessary character qualities to meet academic and career goals and succeed in them once they are met. Therefore, it is a perfect venue for teaching necessary character traits to make and meet academic and career goals. Moreover, the incentive to become a "winning" boxing team member galvanizes them to meet the academic requirement to join the team. Short-term outcomes (i.e., maintain or increased TABE scores, documented positive character change): Projected percent of youth who achieve one or both objective = 75% 2. Monitoring Proeram Activity We intend to give our youth a pre and post literacy/numeracy test. In order to ensure meeting literacy and numeracy standards set by WIA. Detailed case notes will provide evidence of positive character change. Intermediate outcome (i.e., continued program involvement and peer mentor involvement): Projected percent of youth who achieve one of combination of objectives = 70% 3. Raising the Skill Levels To ensure that our clients graduate from high school, get a job after high-school, or continue a college-bound trajectory, we plan to continue to engage them to remain as members of our after-school boxing club. Moreover, we plan to invite seasoned members to get involved by becoming peer mentors. Therefore continued involvement and peer mentoring will serve as intermediate outcome measures. 10 EXHIBIT A