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Orange County Youth Commission <br />Santa Ana, California <br />6. Youth Friendly Facility: <br />The uniqueness of boxing draws them to the club, The boxing gym facility is youth <br />friendly and inviting for our tutoring, and boxing exercise program. Skill attainment and <br />competition gives students goals to reach. Field trips and activities retain clients' interest, <br />especially contact with caring mentors. Our boxing club is unique in providing a creative, <br />youth-friendly and youth-welcoming environment that is exciting and interesting. The <br />facility helps to create a warm, family atmosphere. <br />II. ABOUT YOUR ORGANIZATION <br />A. DESCRIPTION OF THE PROPOSER <br />The Orange County Youth Commission has been in existence since 1997 and has <br />provided after-school programming to Santa Ana youth for 13 years. Our after-school <br />programs have offered a future and a hope for at-risk inner city youth who live in an <br />environment that offer little future or hope. School administrators and teachers have <br />witnessed first- hand how we have taken their at-risk students and redirected them to <br />make positive behavioral and academic choices. School administrators and teachers <br />welcome us on their campus and appreciate the service we have provided for these past <br />13 years. We track our outcomes by way of case records and grades, along with <br />administrator/teacher and parent reports. <br />We have grown from one club serving 12 children to presently operating 18 clubs that <br />have served over 600 children and teens in the past years. Children who were in our clubs <br />in their Elementary School are now helping to open up new clubs in their Jr. High <br />Schools. They also come back to their Elementary Schools to help out with their old <br />clubs. <br />1. Current Employees and Budget <br />We currently have three full-time employees and a fourth employee receives $300 per <br />month for overseeing the boxing club and checking in youth. <br />Kate Medina our Executive Director has a bachelor degree from Stephens College in <br />Columbia Missouri in Fashion Design and Retail. She was Vice President of her family <br />Corporation for 24 years and has owned her own business for the last 10 years. In 2005- <br />07, Kate, worked with the Talking Page Literacy Organization and ABC Learn to <br />coordinate a remedial program of 25 hours each to over 100 children, some of which <br />were enrolled in OCYC after-school clubs. Kate has been leading an After School Club <br />from the OCYC for the last 3 years and has been mentoring girls for the last 5 years. <br />Anthony Serrano, Sports Club/Program Director, has a certificate in drug/alcohol <br />counseling and has worked as a druglalcohol counselor for over years. He is also an <br />accomplished boxing coach, having trained our young boxers to win local and national <br />16 <br />EXHIBIT A