ORANGE COUNTY CHILDREN'S THERAPEUTIC ARTS CENTER - 2017

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2017-18 Orange County Children's Therapeutic Arts Center Youth Employment Program - WIOA Proposal 4. Family Planning — Planned Parenthood and Human Options will provide our WIOA youth with information on healthy relationship and birth control. These workshops are intended to help assist youth with their future and current family stabilities. S. Worker's Rights/Labor Laws — Participants will be able to learn and understand their rights as an employee in California from things like mandatory break times and benefits. Participant will also be able to learn and understand how to ask and receive accommodations that must be provided to those who have same type of learning or physical disability. As well as questions that may not be asked in an interview or after becoming an employee. 6. Analytical Skills at the Workplace — All WIOA youth will be provided with a task analysis and literacy analysis, skills assessments, job profiling, and pre-employment work skills. Each of these sills can provide a path to improve the participant's ability to perform basic job skills in the field or job they have or may have in the future. 7. Health Resources — Participants will be given resources from our community partners, including Planned Parenthood on how to be healthy and safe, and how to obtain medical services. Additionally, our MECCA coalition, Pepperdine University, USC, School of Social Work, and the County of Orange, Health Agency will provide WIOA participants with other health resources and mental health specialists, if needed. 8. Public Speaking Skills — All Youth will be asked to take a training that will allow them to learn the necessary skills for public speaking, including how to speak to employers and/or new offsite work placements and new potential employers. Also, youth will learn how to create and give oral presentations, as well as how to speak to people when networking for future connections. 11.Civic_E_ngagement and/or Leadership Development A. Can your organization offer a civic engagement opportunity or leadership development opportunity for WIOA youth and other youth in the community, if so, please describe. — AII WIOA youth will be asked to participate in the youth council meetings. They will be asked to contribute ideas/information on how to better serve the youth in Santa Ana. Youth will also be asked to assist MECCA collaborative, by engaging with our partner agencies, and creating and presenting employment workshops to other transitional age youth and adults at those sites, in order to contribute to a better future for our OC community! B. Indicate the number of youth that will participate in the civic engagement or leadership development opportunity — All WIOA youth will be asked to engage in leadership development opportunities at OCCTAC and the community, through civic engagement activities that will help their community be a better place to live in! C. Special consideration for organizations that can leverage funds to provide services to non-WIOA youth participants — Yes, but this would require more discussion and coordination with ALL WIOA Agencies involved, so the responsibility is equally divided between all partner agencies.