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Pure Game - Pure Game After -School Programming Rank: 46 Strategic Plan Alignment: Goal 2 Objective 2a Score: 67.2% Funding Request: $ 47,400 Through inclusive sports play plus character education, Pure Game (PG) inspires underserved children to be engaged, self-confident, ethical, resilient, compassionate, and capable of constructive problem solving. With a CEP grant, PG will provide programming to achieve this, after school and during summer break, at 14 schools in Neighborhood Initiative areas. Participants will have fun, exercise, and grow in character, becoming better able to treat others respectfully, value themselves, think positively about their own futures, and be less vulnerable to gang recruitment. Veterans Legal Institute - Homeless Veterans Free Legal Clinics Rank: 47 Strategic Plan Alignment: Goal 1 Objective 1g Score: 65.8% Funding Request: $ 106,720 The Homeless Veteran Free Legal Clinics are designed to reach out to vulnerable veterans who have unique and significant barriers to self sufficiency. VLI reaches out with mobile free clinics to known homeless veteran hotspots. For Santa Ana, that includes the homeless quarter at the Santa Ana Civic Center. These "Military Monday" clinics are invitations for free legal advice and counsel, community conversation, and presentations on expungements, landlord/tenant, bankruptcy, and other civil issues. Homeless veterans can come to a relaxed setting at the Starbucks right next to the quarter, drink coffee, and meet with an expanded staff who all have military backgrounds. Council on Aging - Southern California - ReConnect Early Intervention Services for OlderAdults Rank: 48 Strategic Plan Alignment: Goal 5 Objective 6e Score: 65% Funding Request: $ 84,246 ReConnect is a countywide program that provides short-term culturally and linguistically competent services (1 to 12 months) to improve the psychosocial health and quality of life of vulnerable, low-income older adults by engaging them in healthy life patterns and activities. The Reconnect program delivers services in 6 different including Hispanic, Vietnamese, Korean, Chinese, and Filipino seniors. The proposed program would expand programming at the senior centers in the city of Santa Ana. With the goal of increasing the number of enriching activities related to art, health, and culture. Court Appointed Special Advocate - Mentor -Advocate Program Rank: 49 Strategic Plan Alignment: Goal 2 Objective 2a Score: 63.8% Funding Request: $ 50,000 Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) of Orange County's Mentor -Advocate Program has been in operation since 1985. CASA recruits, screens and trains community volunteers to equip them to mentor and advocate for a segment of our most highly victimized population - children in the dependency system. Our court-appointed CASA volunteers are trained and supported to connect with the youth, to identify needs and concerns, to address ongoing crises that erupt in these challenging cases and to advocate for their resolution. Young Women Christian Association of North Orange County - YWSafe Self Defense Program Rank: 50 Score: 63.4% Strategic Plan Alignment: Goal 1 Objective 2d Funding Request: $ 45,440 We will educate and train women about self-defense who use public transportation to work or school. This bi-lingual (English/Spanish) program teaches students about self-defense awareness and preparation. We discuss sexual assault definitions of the law so the student identifies potentially dangerous situations will have knowledge of her options. Training skills include risk avoidance, body language, self-defense and the understanding of the impact and effects of sexual assault. Pg. 11 65D-17