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OC Children's Therapeutic Arts Centel- 2012 -13 Proposal Narrative for YSPN Membership
<br />I. PROPOSAL NARRATIVE
<br />A. Executive Summary:
<br />1. Briefly describe your organization. The Orange County Children's Therapeutic Arts Center ( OCCTAC)
<br />is recognized as one of Santa Ana's leading community builders for children, youth and families. Also we
<br />successfully integrate youth with and without disabilities in a nurturing and supportive environment that teaches
<br />respect, disability awareness, and cultural diversity with an emphasis in the arts, education and technology. We
<br />offer a wide variety of educational and therapeutic programs to the community, including: Early
<br />Intervention/Early Start programs, After - school Arts and Tutoring, Parenting, Counseling, Support groups,
<br />Leadership development, Technology Training, and others. Our agency prioritizes on serving youth with
<br />disabilities, including: learning disabilities, health impairments, developmental disabilities, and others.
<br />2. Briefly describe how this program fits in with programs currently being offered by your agency.
<br />The WIA program is an extension of our current educational services provided to older youth (with and without
<br />disabilities). This program fits perfectly with our mission to empower and educate youth, and provide life
<br />changing opportunities. In addition, OCCTAC currently offers 3 State Certificate Programs in partnership with
<br />the Santa Ana College and Pacific Clinics. Please See Table 3 (page 4) and Table 5 (page 6) for more
<br />information on OCCTAC programs.
<br />3. Briefly describe the basic program (indicate the number of youth to be served, which WIA population
<br />will be served, activities /workshops, work experience, training, educational resources, work readiness,
<br />case management strategies). OCCTAC Job Training program will serve 25 out of school youth, ages 17 -21
<br />yrs. The basic program will take place primarily at our community -based center in Santa Ana. Participants will
<br />engage in a variety of educational and job training activities, including classroom and workshop instruction.
<br />Participants will be required to meet individually with key staff, participate in daily and weekly educational
<br />trainings, and monthly workshops. Participants will also engage in weekly "hands -on" work experience and job
<br />training opportunities at our agency and other community sites. Please see Tables 1, 2, 3, 4 and S.
<br />4. Indicate the planned outcomes and how they will meet the WIA Performance Goals. OCCTAC is
<br />committed to helping youth reach the WIA performance goals by providing youth with the support, guidance,
<br />training and work experience to find employment opportunities and /or enroll in higher education, attain a
<br />certificate, and increase their basic skills, particularly, literacy and numeracy gains. Our WIA case manager and
<br />career counselor will work together with our participants to help place students in jobs, and enroll them in post-
<br />secondary education. OCCTAC currently offers 3 state certificate programs. These certificate programs will
<br />help youth attain an important performance goal, and comply with our YSPN member responsibilities to ensure
<br />that the YSPN's performance measures are met. Also, our WIA literacy and math tutors will continue to help
<br />participants increase at least two grade levels, by providing individual tutoring on a weekly basis until youth
<br />increase their literacy and math skills. OCCTAC has been very successful in the past with this performance
<br />goal, and continues to be committed in assisting participants with and without disabilities!
<br />5. Disclose the total funding request. OCCTAC is requesting $180,000 to continue to provide high quality
<br />services to the WIA youth. The funding will be used for a full time case manager, a part time case manager
<br />assistant, a part time career counselor, a part time literacy and math tutors, and funds to pay 25 WIA
<br />participants during their work experience, as well as support services, and other program related costs.
<br />6. Indicate which of the 10 WIA elements the program will offer. OCCTAC currently offers all 10 WIA
<br />elements to our WIA participants! The program has a strong emphasis on educational skills and job training,
<br />mentoring, tutoring, leadership development, counseling, support services, and paid work experience in the
<br />fields of education, arts, technology, office /clerical work, and child care worker and mental health
<br />paraprofessional training. This year we are also able to offer alternative secondary school services to high
<br />school dropout participants in partnership with SIATech!
<br />Exhibit A
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