RANCHO SANTIAGO COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT (21) - 2013

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part in the RSCCD Young Entrepreneurs Program, which exposes youth to mechanisms and methods of increasing the marketability of their products and skills. Recruitment and outreach for the program will occur at the start of the grant cycle 7/1/2013. Prior to the start of the program, the library TeenSpace staff will promote the upcoming "Seeds To Trees" program during its Summer Volunteer Institute program which annually recruits over 120 summer volunteers, many of which are WIA eligible, and it's Probation Youth Community Service program which has an average annual participation of 40- 50 youth on probation. In addition to recruiting from its pool of WIA eligible summer volunteers, staff will also make presentations at Orange County FYO (Foster Youth Outcomes) meetings, CASA (Court Appointed Social Advocates) meetings and at local Santa Ana High Schools, to recruit candidates for this program. We will begin accepting notices of interest in the "Seeds To Trees" Digital Media Academy in May and distributing and accepting applications including gathering all documents required by the Service Navigator to determine youth WIA eligibility. Once youth eligibility is confirmed, youth will be hired as Work Experience employees (WEX). It is anticipated that all this will occur in the month of August, 2013 in anticipation of the media arts courses which simulate a college semester. The ambitious goal at this point is to have already recruited and enrolled at least 15 (75 %) of total 20 youth participants planned in the program. During this phase, all student interns will also take a TABE assessment test to determine their basic skill level. Work Experience (Santa Ana Public Library): The entire format of the "Seeds to Trees" academy program is one that focuses on work experience. First, all 20 youth are hired as Student Intern Work Experience employees (WEX) and then they are promoted and hired on as Library Page interns and paid an hourly wage to receive a complete in -class and on- the -job training work experience that they can use to propel them into higher education, employment and /or self - employment as a freelance entrepreneur. Upon WIA eligibility determination and acceptance into the "Seeds to Trees Digital Media Technology Academy ", all 20 youth participants will be hired as work experience employees (WEX) (Please refer to our Paid Work Experience Policy). Participants will work 8 hours a week, and of that 4 hours will be in -class training and the other 4 hours will be on -the job work experience as production crews responsible for creating content and programming that will be broadcasted on Santa Ana's library run CTV3 station and website during the introductory 4 week pre - production phase of the project. After this 4 week period, all 20 youth will then be able to specialize in two fields of digital media like video production, digital music or graphic design during the next 14 weeks. During this phase, they will work 10 hours a week, and of that 6 hours will be in -class training and 4 will be spent on producing and creating content for CTV3 and the Seeds to Trees spotlight website. They will focus primarily on producing health and fitness related programming and on pre - production research and development on other programming topics such as "green living ", history and news. The work - experience occurs concurrently with the class -room training in a project -based learning approach, because it gives interns an opportunity to immediately put their in -class skills to work in a very cogent manner. This portion of the work experience will run for approximately 18 weeks and will culminate in successful interns receiving a Digital Media Technology Pre- Production and Digital Media Technician certificate. Upon completion of their Digital Media Technology certification requirements, 12 student interns will be given the opportunity to continue in the development of their work - experience in the form of employment in 12 hours per week Digital Media Technology Apprenticeships. They will be hired as paid library pages and will be put on the payroll of the Parks, Recreation and Community Services Department of which the Santa Ana Public Library is a division. As apprentices they will continue to develop their production skills and will work on developing and producing additional television programming on green living, nature, history, current events, literacy, music, arts and sciences, along with further developing and producing additional health and fitness programs. The apprenticeship will be a 16 week program and upon successful completion of designated program project goals, which will be outlined in the program flow section of this narrative, participants will receive a Digital Media EXHIBIT A