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