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

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recruiting and serving the at-risk population. The prior Success Bound! programs and participants have consistently met their performance goals. Staff has learned from experience and is ready to deal with the real difficulties encountered in the enrollment, placement and data collection processes. Staff recognizes the need to always be on a continuous learning curve. Staff is also well versed in the completion of ongoing recruitment, eligibility, document collection, "My Action Plan" for each participant, and the administration of objective assessments, etc. The Career Development/ROP Department has literally hundreds of relationships in place with area employers who have experienced success with prior youth program participants. This is particularly true of those paid internship positions utilized in past WIA programs such as the School Workplace Internship Program, the Arts-in-the-City program and the WIA Success Bound! & Right Start! m programs. In addition to these, WIA youth participants will have access to the hundreds of regular a ROP internship sites partnered with specific career preparation courses. Paid, non-paid, job o shadowing and other related activities will also be accessible to the WIA participants via the Career Centers at the high schools and the CTS lab at the ROP Ritchey Center. The adult mentors form o Career Beginnings of Orange County (CBOC) will also be a resource to program participants. With respect to parent involvement, initial contact with parents is normally made during the enrollment process. Completion of the Work Permits also often requires another parent contact. The WIA Success Bound! Community Resource Specialist will make home telephone and/or home visits during the course of the program year. Normally, the initial reason will be either attendance and/or paid work experience concern but other calls will also focus on missing graduation requirements, college financial assistance documentation, training site issues, etc. Experience with previous years' programs has taught the Success Bound! staff that parental support can be key to getting a senior "back-on-track" towards graduation, career and higher education goals. After the initial enrollment process, there will be a few other formal school/parent activities; e.g., parents are invited to several of the adult mentor activities. But, strong informal relationships with parents will be developed with parents when there have been concerns about attendance or other related problems with training and work sites. These parental relationships will be maintained and strengthen for the 2009/10 Success Bound! program year as we have learned the value of parental support in these areas. The bi-monthly guidance/counseling sessions often provide opportunities to discuss parental/adolescent relationships in a private setting and the success, which has been experienced in improving these relationships in what can be a very trying time for both parents and teenagers, will be continued for the upcoming program year. The proposed staffing will include only Career Development/ROP staff members with prior WIA experience. Given the scope of this project and the experience from prior program years, it is clear x that the proposed staff should be sufficient. The proposed staff will be supported by the infrastructure of the Career Development/ROP office and the College/Career Centers at each high school. Allied with the District staff will be support personnel from other agencies such as EDD, the W/O/R/K Center, Cal-WORKS and other member of the Youth Service Provider Network. Paid and volunteer staff from Career Beginnings of Orange County will also support the team providing collaborative y services to the In-School program participants. The efforts of these support staff and others will serve W to leverage the WIA direct funded services into a more successful program for the Success.Bound! participants. Mr. Quezada who represents the District at WIA meetings in-services etc coordinates training and staff development activities for other District staff. This year, the budget includes funding for him to attend the CWA conference as suggested by the WIA staff at the W/O/R/K Center. The over-all operation for the Success Bound! will be handled by Ricardo Quezada, Community Resource Specialist for SAUSD. Tony Dalessi, a retired ROP Program Specialist who has been 26 EXHIBIT A