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CITY OF SANTA ANA work expe1ience and job training that leads to viable work. Our community business paitners that provide paid work expe1ience to mentored youth include Bracken 's Kitchen (Culinary), Seabreeze Management Company (Property Management), Norooz (Health Clinic), and Greenlight Cyber (Cyber Security Company). Youth may also receive a stipend to complete a ce1tificate through SentJi Ins titute (Aimed Guard, Security Guard). Youth employment goals may include pursuit of higher education in post- secondary institutions or trade schools. To that end, we help youth navigate challenges associated w ith college/trade preparation, school qualification/enhy and financial aid. Once in college or trade school, we help them stay on the path to graduation. We also assist youth in the WARP program to access available paid and unpaid job training programs as well as job oppo1tunities through a wide va1iety of services including CalJOBS, Job Corps, and other OC job training providers and employment data bases. Our paitners, along with our refeirnl paitners offer a wide range of oppo1tunities for youth work experience, including those qualified under W IOA: 1. Summer employment oppo1tunities and other employment opportunities available throughout the school year. 2. Pre-apprenticeship prograins. Pre-apprenticeship is designed to prepare individuals to enter and succeed in an apprenticeship program. Pre-apprenticeship programs include the fo llowing elements: a. Training and cuniculum that aligns with the skill needs of employers in the economy of the state or region involved. b. Access to educational and career counseling and other suppo1tive services, directly or indirectly. c. Hands-on, meaningful le arning activities connected to education and training activities. d. Oppo1tunities to attain at least one industiy-recognized credential. e. A paitnership with one or more registered apprenticeship programs that assist in placing individuals who complete the pre-apprenticeship program in a registered apprenticeship program 3. Internships and job shadowing. Job shadowing is a temporaty, unpaid exposure to the workplace in an occupational area of interest to the participant and may last anywhere from a few hours to a week or more. 4. On-the-job training (OJT) opp01tunities. OJT means training by an employer that is provided to a paid paiticipant while engaged in a job that meets the following criteria: a. Provides knowledge or skills essential to the full and adequate perfonnance of the job. b. Is made available through a program that provides reimbursement to the employer of up to 50 percent of the wage rate of the participant or up to 75 percent in circumstance of extraordinary costs of providing the training and additional supervision related to the training. c. Is limited in duration to the occupation for which the paiticipant is being trained, taking into account the content of the ti·aining, the prior work expe1ience of the paiticipant, and the service strategy of the paitic ipant as appropriate. Note that our pattner Norooz Health Clinic provides work expe1ience in the Healthcare field and our pa1tner Greenlight Cyber provides training in the Cyber Security field. These oppo1tunities prepare youth for work in high demand industries. Youth employment goals may include pursuit of higher education in post-seconda1y institutions including co llege or ti·ade schools. To that end, we provi de stipends and we help youth navigate challenges associated with co llege/trade preparation, sc hool qualification/entry and fin ancial aid. Once in college or trade schoo l, we help them stay on the p ath to graduation. Post-secondary education often includes training EXHIBIT 3 City Council 10 – 278 7/1/2025