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through a partnership with HSIS aimed at reducing the drop -out rate by enhancing the <br />number of alternatives available to students at risk, <br />Vital Link will be continued and expanded as new videos become available and as focus <br />shifts to the key new regional employment drivers in bio- and other technologies, <br />tourism, and health care. <br />HSI /Orange County Juvenile Probation Services are extending their collaboration to <br />Community Day schools, in order to focus on foster youth. The model for this program is <br />the Los Angeles County After School Employer Network program, another regional <br />resources harnessed to local needs. <br />Other High School and Post Secondary Schools. The WIB is committed to expansion to <br />include the emerging high value /high growth business sectors and has five slots <br />available through normal turnover to recruit them. As it does, emerging markets will <br />have increasing influence in encouraging a new job development perspective in <br />education. Both the WIB and the Santa Ana Unified School District have been <br />developing and will increase their intensity in developing STEM training as a pre- <br />requisite for the new jobs expected to be created. <br />• Juvenile justice, demand - driven and collaborative models, underutilized, disabled, <br />marginalized, and at -risk youth. <br />WIB and WORK Center staff are in regular communication with each aforementioned program <br />coordinators or senior manager. <br />How the WIB will Interact with the Institutional Structure <br />In addition to maintaining its role with existing institutions, the WIB plans to further its <br />partnership with ROP and HSIS to expand services in order to reduce the number of dropouts, <br />and to work with OC Department of Educations and OCJPS to provide services to their program <br />Community Day Schools with a focus on reaching foster youth. The WIB also is considering the <br />following programs to implement its vision: <br />• Creating expanded vouchers for childcare, transportation, etc., in order to free low <br />income youth to more easily take advantage of educational and workforce <br />opportunities; <br />• Enhancing the "green and clean" components of workforce preparedness, because <br />currently that has not been a need honored in practice; <br />• Collaborating more closely with labor- sponsored apprenticeship and other programs; <br />• Building upon current programs offered at RSCCD and SAC which focus on innovative <br />arts - driven programs, have a high degree of job placement before graduation (70 -80 %), <br />and which allow for a wider range of job opportunities, especially in the tourist, culinary, <br />arts, and other fields; <br />53 <br />19F -61 <br />