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Orange County Conservation Corps <br />Santa Ana Workforce Investment Board - The Youth Service Provider Network <br />Request for Proposal <br />PY 201212013 <br />field. Project visits and field trips will be planned to facilitate incorporating work projects <br />with classroom instruction. <br />• Street outreach and other recruitment activities will be delivered in Santa Ana, while <br />interviews will be held at the Anaheim site, as well as the WORK Center as needed; <br />• The Corps provides transportation using crew vans to get to work projects, as well as bus <br />passes and assistance arranging car pools to help Corps Members with transportation issues. <br />2. Hours of operation <br />The Orange County Conservation Corps offices are open Monday— Thursday from 7:00 am to <br />5:00 pm and Friday from 8:00 am to noon. Additional week -end and evening hours to be <br />arranged depending on individual participant needs, scheduled events, and activities. <br />3. Describe what makes your facility youth friendly and suitable for the proposed <br />activities /services.The facility is designed in a regular classroom setting with a certificated <br />teacher assigned to each classroom. All classrooms are equipped with computers and internet <br />access for Corps Member use. Pictures of Corps Member accomplishments and success boards <br />are displayed throughout the facility. There is a case management office with five staff <br />available to work with Corps Members one on one to provide support services needed. A <br />resource area is designated in the facility for Corps Members to access medical, health, <br />leadership council applications, and human resource information. A Corps Members feedback <br />box is available for Corps Members to provide suggestions or request additional services. <br />4.How will participant access site if not within City of Santa Ana boundaries? <br />Both daily and monthly bus passes are made available to Corps Members at our main facility. <br />Carpooling is alsoencouraged. <br />5.Is the facility compliant with the Americans with Disability Act (ADA) ?The Orange <br />County Conservation Corps' facility is compliant with the Americans with Disability Act. <br />6.Discuss how Internet access will be available to program staff. List computer <br />programs /applications used by agency staff? <br />All staff members at the Orange County Conservation Corps have Internet access though a <br />dedicated hi -speed data connection and maintaina computer lab for Corps Member use and <br />training. The Orange County Conservation Corps uses several customized program /grant- <br />specific databases (such as the Virtual One -Stop system), spreadsheets and internally developed <br />forms and custom databases to track a wide variety of program and grant outcomes. Desktop <br />software applications used internally include: <br />7.Describe how adequate staffing will be maintained to ensure success of this program: <br />This year the OCCC has doubled its capacity this year by purchasing a site in Anaheim to house <br />the recycling program; and renting a new facility dedicated to the OCCC Charter School and <br />special Programs. The acquisition of these properties has also allowed the number of Corps <br />Members to double in size which has subsequently doubled the size the full -time staff to 45. <br />Several staff will be involved in providing services for this project, some in -kind (Teachers, <br />10 <br />Exhibit A <br />