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

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graduation on a monthly basis at a minimum. Note: these activities are also applicable to prior WIA participants from the 2009/10 and earlier programs. The District staff has had extensive experience in annual follow-up reports. The specific design of the documents used for this process will be based on that experience and any requirements of the W/O/R/K Center or WIB staff. Summative evaluation of the project will be assessed by completion, postsecondary commitment and graduation rates and at the end of the school year. The major collection timeline for follow-up data will be in the late fall after high school graduation. This will be done to verify the former Success Bound! participant's postsecondary placement (higher education, military, part-time or full-time work). Success Bound! participants will be regularly contacted on an informal basis (mail, phone and e-mail- if available) to monitor their progress during this twelve-month basis. The purpose of the informal contacts will be to remind the participants of the availability of continuing follow-up services. These would include not only the standard supportive services available to WIA program participants, but also access to tutoring/study areas at the ROP Ritchey Center, Cal-WORKS programs, the W/O/R/K Center and ROP courses. The District's Career Development/ROP staff has close relationships with both programs and staff at Santa Ana College; those Success Bound! participants who attend that institution will also have access to extra support and attention during the twelve-month period as a result of these relationships. With respect to regular progress reports, record keeping, etc., the Secondary Enrichment Programs staff at the ROP Ritchey Center are experienced in providing the data needed by the WIB, Youth Council and others to document the effectiveness of the program and the success of its participants. This is true for both programmatic and fiscal monitoring. As some of the school-based information on the District's SchoolMax system and elsewhere is confidential, records (including "My Action Plan" files) will be kept at the ROP Ritchey Center. If it is necessary for other WIA youth programs, the district will collaborate with other vendors to provide student data within the boundaries of various state and federal privacy regulations. ELEMENT #10: Access to and provision of a comprehensive array of guidance and counseling support activities that focus improving student performance and achievement. Project services for Success Bound! participants that involve this final standard have been partially addressed in several of the other standards, particularly those dealing with leadership development, supportive services and adult mentoring. As also mentioned above, the vehicle for delivering the services will normally be the bi-monthly meetings held during non-instructional times at the individual high school sites. Augmented by the services of the collaborators, this portion of the project will afford participants with comprehensive guidance and counseling services that far exceed those that they can normally access in a traditional high school setting. This aspect of the case management services for participants will also be available outside the regular school day thus making them available at times when these at-risk students do not have to be in class. Alternative methods of access are important to the target population and it is an objective of this part of the proposed program to facilitate the access of these students to supplementary supportive services. The Community Resource Specialist for the Success Bound! program will monitor participant contacts with all staff and the collaborators to ensure that all aspects of each participant's identified case management goals/MAP, "My Action Plan," is being addressed. Experience with the WIA programs has taught that this aspect of program management is extremely important; not only with respect to reporting requirement, but more importantly, with respect to providing appropriate services to 22 EXHIBIT A