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C. Identify and/or develop a pathway for vouth that can lead them from high school to career or college. Please elaborate on the specific pathway(s). The program will seek to work with small and large businesses to identify current and evolving job opportunities and to learn what employers look for in candidates. The apprenticeship will give students the chance to earn college credit in career related fields. 2013-2014 job shortages included positions in marketing, computer programing, computer science marketing, and systems analysis. We will continue to expand our program's focus on providing the skills necessary for our participants to engage high value jobs in the region's emerging industries. The training provided in our work plan provides the participants with the first steps they will need to take in order to begin the process of obtaining the education needed to begin a career in these high demand fields. The use of MOOCs is a tool with which the students are introduced and guided through college level course work. The introduction to college via classes in business and intermediate digital media arts will reinforce this as well. It is our belief that this early introduction to a college education will encourage them to pursue a degree after the program is completed. Additionally, the high level of computer programming and technology to which the digital media technology courses and MOOC's will expose our youth will help them transition into other computer -programming -related fields. D. Describe in detail how the program will prepare youth for postsecondary education and training. 1. The Seeds to Trees Academy program utilizes a blended program approach that combines traditional post -secondary education, in -person training and educational methods with cutting edge online post -secondary training and educational methods via MOOC's. 2. All youth participants in the Seeds to Trees Academy will be enrolled in Santa Ana College, and will be able to obtain at least 3 college credits via the completion of an Intro Digital Media Basics course 3. All youth will receive one-on-one and group higher education counseling hours and workshops from Santa Ana College. They will work with their counselor to develop a higher Education plan. 4. In -school youth and their parents will participate in youth higher education preparation workshops put on by Padres Promotores for Higher Education from Santa Ana College. 5. Youth in follow-up year will also have access to one-on-one college counseling sessions and workshops. 6. All youth will attend College Scholarship workshops that will provide them the opportunity to apply for college scholarships (please refer to attachment W-5). E. How will your organization expose youth to the various post -secondary educational institutions (colleges, universities, vocational training schools, apprenticeships, etc.). 1. Out -of -School youth will be enrolled in college level SAC courses in the field of digital media. This will insure that our program will enroll each one of our participants in a center for higher education by the end of the first quarter. 2. Participants will be introduced to post -secondary education via MOOC's that will provide access to courses from some of the most elite universities in the U.S and the world. 3. Interns will attend workshops on college searches, college applications, scholarships and financial aid, as part of their on-the-job training. Interns will also be taken on field trips to local 13