SANTA ANA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT/ROP (3) - 2010

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ELEMENT #6: Provision of a support plan that affords participants with leadership development activities as an integral part of their total program experience. This element is primarily addressed during the bi-monthly meetings at each high school campus. This program is designed to be a skills-building youth development program that prepares youth to make wise decisions, set goals and gain a sense of self-worth. It is structured around small-group discussions led by the WIA-funded Community Resource Specialist that raises participants' awareness about how one's decisions and values have short and long-term consequences and how they influence one's health and well being. The development of such an attitude belongs in this element and in fact, this activity reinforces the whole concept of "customer service." This is a key element of career development and ROP courses that participants will be taking. It is well know that most teens and young adults lose their employment over non-skill related issues (the "soft skills") such as work place attitudes, attendance, customer relations, etc. It is anticipated that each Success Bound! participant will be involved in this activity for approximately ten to twelve sessions. In addition, similar experience will be provided to those Success Bound! participants taking part in the Career Beginnings of Orange County's Mentor Night program that is described later in this proposal. ELEMENT #7: Provision of a support plan that affords participants with appropriate supportive services when needed to facilitate their successful completion of the program. A key component of the Success Bound! program will be the degree of support provided to each participant. Transportation to ROP training classes and work sites will probably be the most common example of support services. However, via the ROP's Community Advisory Committee and the Assistance League of Santa Ana, participants will have access to appropriate work site clothing when needed. The resources of the District's Teen Parent program will be brought to bear should a participant have to address such issues as childcare, parenting, etc. The collaborator for the program, Career Beginnings of Orange County will also assist in provision of services regarding this program standard. The adult mentors from the CBOC program have historically not only assisted their mentees with such expected items as career and academic counseling, recreational activities, etc., but they have help with such things as providing appropriate clothing for interviews, transportation, accompanying their mentee on job or college interviews, etc. While not directly a support service, the focus of this program is to actively engage the students to participate in community service. Program activities focus on several important social and community related concepts and it is felt that this element of the program will be of value to the participants from not only a supportive service point of view but from one of leadership. ELEMENT #8: An effective adult mentoring program designed to complement and ensure attainment of the program's goals for graduation, enrollment in higher education and acquisition of basic career skills. One of the major elements of previous Success Bound! programs was the adult mentoring program provided by Career Beginnings of Orange County (CBOC). This activity was modeled after a program that originally began over twenty years ago with a grant at Santa Ana College. For the past fourteen years, a non-profit Board of Directors has operated CBOC in cooperation with the Secondary Enrichment Programs at the ROP in the Santa Ana Unified School District. CBOC no longer is able to provide the 12-month follow-up required by WIA so will the program will still be offered to those 20 EXHIBIT A