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2017-18 Orange County Children's Therapeutic Arts Center <br />Youth Employment Program - WIOA Proposal <br />3. Past experience with WIOA programs or other youth programs - OCCTAC has been serving <br />Santa Ana youth since the year 2000. For the past 17 years, OCCTAC has provided a wide <br />variety of programs to the community, and served students of all ages, including young <br />children and older youth (with and without disabilities). OCCTAC has operated WIA/WIOA <br />programs for almost 20 years, since the year 20051 Every year our program grows and <br />demonstrates success with our WIOA participants. We are very proud and excited to see the <br />successes and great outcomes of our WIQA youth, year after year. <br />4. What kind of impact has your organization made on the youth community - OCCTAC has <br />had a tremendous impact on the Santa Ana youth community) We are very proud of our <br />accomplishments throughout the years, and especially our success stories with our "WIOA <br />Youth"! As stated before, OCCTAC is committed to empowering youth with disabilities, <br />foster youth and high school drop-out students, so they can reach their fullest potential in <br />life. Through our innovative approach, which combines the arts, education, health and <br />technology programs, participants are motivated, engaged and involved in a variety of <br />programs at OCCTAC. In 2015-16 our WIOA participants attained employment/entered <br />education at a rate of 70%, attained a credential at a rate of 100%, and attained Literacy <br />and Numeracy gains a rate of 100%1 These outcomes demonstrate the commitment and <br />dedication of our wonderful WIOA program staff. <br />2. Proposed Program: <br />A, Provide an overview of the program's main objectives. - The WIOA program is an extension of <br />our current educational services provided to older youth (with and without disabilities); it <br />empowers and educates youth, and provides life -changing opportunities. OCCTAC has been <br />working with WIOA participants since 2005. The WIOA program at OCCTAC will provide all 14• <br />WIOA elements, including: educational services, job training, paid work experience, adult <br />mentoring, literacy & math tutoring, career & educational counseling, alternative secondary <br />school services, occupational skills training and education, supportive services, certificate <br />programs, leadership opportunities, comprehensive counseling, financial literacy, <br />entrepreneurial skills training, labor market information, activities to help youth prepare for <br />post -secondary education and follow-up services. The basic program will take place primarily at <br />our community-based center in Santa Ana. Participants will engage in a variety of educational <br />and job training activities, Including classroom and workshop instruction. Participants will be <br />required to meet individually with key staff, participate in daily and weekly educational <br />trainings, and weekly workshops. Also, WIQA participants will also engage in weekly "hands-on" <br />work experience and job training opportunities at our agency and other offsite job trainings in <br />the community. Please see below Table 1 for an overview of the program timeline for the <br />entire year. <br />EXHIBIT A <br />25B-25 <br />