19F - WIA STRATEGIC PLAN 2013-2017

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be served, 69.5% are out of school, the rest in school. Programs address STEM training, plus vocational and career enhancement training in medical and business office administration, paralegal and medical assistance, mental health para - professional, childcare, customer service, folk lift, chainsaw, and digital media skills. Training hours vary from 40 -60 in some programs, to 820 for the most complex fields. The average training cost is $7,737 /youth. Specifically, • Orange County Asian and Pacifica Islander Community Alliance will provide work experience, supportive services for job development, and resources for post- secondary education for 15 disconnected youth; • Santa Ana Public Library will provide post- secondary occupational skills training in digital technology for 20 youth in and out of school. it also will provide paid work experience and leadership training; • Santa Ana WORK Center will provide paid work experience and supportive services to 20 youth related to STEM workforce preparation; • Orange County Children's Therapeutic Arts Center will continue its work in tutoring, occupational skills training, job preparation, and support services for 25 disconnected youth; • Orange County Conservation Corps will serve 20 out -of- school youth with work experience, alternate secondary education and post education services; • Career College of California will provide business and medical front office preparation plus medical assistant and paralegal training for 15 out -of- school youth; and • KidWorks will provide higher education resources and paid work experience for in- school and disconnected youth. • Road Trip Nation Program. This new program builds on the success of several East coast and national efforts. The goal of the program is to encourage youth to define their own roads in life by both an imaginary and actual road trips that connect classroom learning with actual experiences and consequences. The twelve workshop program, which culminates in a project, just "graduated" its first cohort of 75 in April 2013. It will be continued and expanded. The SAYSN is the lead on this and will continue the program for PY 2013 -14 and be available to youth enrolled in the WIA grant. • ROP Expansion. Future ROP programs will add sections on health care, laboratory workers, within HSIS. CTEoc. So successful has CTEoc been in its region, it has just won a multi -year grant to expand its program into the entire MSA area and beyond, covering not only the Orange County region, but beyond Long Beach all the way to downtown Los Angeles. In its expanded format, it will create a single " triage - information- referral -direct support" network for youth (and adults) through the community college system and other employment services. Those expanded services include increasing the number of ROPs 52 19F -60