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<br />include: ACCESS (alternative education program), Century High School, Santa Ana High
<br />School, Community Day, Monroe, Hoover, Edison, Kennedy, Taft, Willard, Newhope, and
<br />the ROP program.
<br />B. OCAPICA currently implements many youth programs and services. OCAPICA is at two
<br />high schools implementing afterschool mentoring, tutoring, and leadership development
<br />programs with very low income youth at risk for dropping out of school. 100% of the youth
<br />in our afterschool programs have successfully graduated from high school and 85% go onto
<br />college. OCAPICA also provides scholarships for college for low income youth; in 2012 we
<br />provided $70,000 in scholarship support. OCAPICA also runs the county's Full Service
<br />Partnership/Wraparound mental health program for severely emotionally disturbed or
<br />mentally ill youth. We work with 60 youth in providing comprehensive mental health
<br />services including, case management, clinical, counseling, and anything else the youth and
<br />their families need. OCAPICA also runs the youth Workforce Investment Act program in
<br />the Western region of the county serving more than 200 youth and providing support for
<br />jobs, career development, completion of school, supportive services, and case management.
<br />Our youth programs impact approximately 4,000 youth in Orange County annually with
<br />education, mentoring, tutoring, college preparation, mental health, health care, gang and
<br />violence prevention, job and career exploration, and leadership development. Through our
<br />programs we have found 85% go onto college, 90% are not reincarcerated, 90% do not
<br />violate probation, 80% obtain stable housing, 80% obtain a permanent job, and 100% receive
<br />needed health and mental health services.
<br />OCAPICA's success lies in its partnerships with industries, job sites, schools, social and
<br />health services, legal centers, and community resources that want to ensure youth success.
<br />For example, one of our youth that had a gang history and juvenile convictions could not find
<br />a job due to having a felony conviction as a youth. He had seen his brother die in a gang and
<br />wanted to change his life but was unable to get into his chosen field. OCAPICA supported
<br />him through career exploration and paid work experience, ongoing hob development and
<br />skills -building, support to finish his GED, supportive services, as well as legal services to
<br />expunge his juvenile record, and ongoing mental health services to address his trauma and
<br />anxiety. He has now gone into graphic design and printing using his art background and was
<br />able to enter Golden West College.
<br />C. OCAPICA has an annual operating budget of $3.2 million from diverse funding services,
<br />including government (Orange County Workforce Investment Board, County of Orange
<br />Health Care Agency/Mental Health Services Act, Office of Minority Health/US Department
<br />of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control), private foundations (College
<br />Access Foundation of California, McKay Foundation, Tides Foundation, St. Joseph Health
<br />System Foundation, Susan G. Komen for the Cure), corporate giving (Southern California
<br />Edison, Wells Fargo, Kaiser Permanente, East West Bank), and individual donors.
<br />D. OCAPICA is proposing to have a 0.50 FTE Case Manager and a 0.45 FTE Job Developer on
<br />this program. Additional staff support include 0.05 FTE of the Program Manager, 0.05 FTE
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