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0 <br />provide targeted services to Foster and/or emancipated youth, youth with disabilities and youth on <br />probation. Social Services Children & Family Services invites us to their annual foster parent and Staff <br />resource event where we market our services and programs. Additionally, we attend their monthly Foster <br />Youth Outcomes meeting that provides us the opportunity to network with other agencies that also <br />specialize in servicing foster and/or emancipated youth. Orangewood Children's Foundation has also <br />continued to work with us on referring any of their emancipated youth that can benefit from our programs <br />and services. <br />Youth with disabilities continues to be a population we outreach and market our services to. Every year <br />we are asked by the Santa Ana Unified School District's Transition Partnership Program to help in the <br />annual planning of the Senior Transition Day that targets seniors with a disability transitioning out of high <br />school. Staff also works individually with school staff that works specifically with youth with disabilities <br />to provide them with tours of the SAWC and presentations of our services. As an added resource, we <br />have onsite the Department of Rehabilitation and Goodwill Industries that provides us with insight on <br />serving individuals with disabilities, referrals, and possible worksites. <br />Our staff has worked with juvenile detention centers to provide presentations about our programs and <br />services in addition to providing workshops on how to find employment once they are out. We also work <br />with our Santa Ana Police Department to update them on the services we have available to youth and <br />adults and provide them with marketing material to distribute as needed. <br />These relationships and networks allow us to meet our numbers and to address many of the barriers our <br />youth are faced with. Tapping into the expertise from these partnerships plus our experience working with <br />youth for over 20 years is a win -win combination. Additionally our average monthly traffic at the SAWC <br />of 3,639 puts us in contact with many young adults and youth that we can outreach to and provide <br />services. More specifically, our monthly traffic count during the spring and summer, when we have to <br />start recruiting, increases to over 4,000 compared to 3,000 in the winter. This makes it ideal for us to <br />meet if not exceed our enrollment goal of 75% by the second quarter of the program year. This year we <br />were at 100% enrollment by the end of summer. The following provides an outline for the program: <br />Work Readiness Skills (SAWC): The lack of "soft skills" of potential candidates is a major concern of <br />our local business community. That is why our workforce specialists have developed and refined job <br />readiness classes that will be used to teach program participants the tools to find a job, keep a job, and <br />protect them while employed. The skills are taught through workshops on various subject matter <br />including but not limited to Youth labor laws, labor market information, resume writing, interviewing <br />skills, and financial literacy. The SAWC has 30 years of experience providing work readiness skills to <br />adults and youth. Our goal is to fully prepare clients with the most current resources needed to find the <br />best job to help become and stay self-sufficient. Participants will learn to apply the knowledge obtained <br />into the various careers associated with STEM. <br />Work Experience (SAWC): Work Experience (WEX) is the planned, structured learning experience that <br />takes place in a workplace for a limited period of time. It is designed to impart specific skill and <br />behavioral competencies. Paid WEX activity will be a maximum of 12 weeks in length. Youth will be <br />placed with a STEM employer that will provide experience and awareness in STEM careers. Depending <br />on the youth's educational responsibilities, participant will be allowed to work up to 20 hours a week at <br />$8.50 an hour. For those youth who are in school, flexibility will be allowed in order for them to focus on <br />school first and workforce second. The WEX component will begin immediately following the <br />completion of the Customer Service certification. Staff will work with each youth, taking into account <br />each skill sets and interest in order to find an appropriate match with a STEM employer. Youth will be <br />exposed to what it's like to work in a STEM career and/orjob shadow someone in the STEM field. They <br />EXHIBIT A <br />