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ongoing "Buddy" programs such as "Reading Buddy", "Math Buddy", "Art Buddy", "Sports Buddy", "Healthy Buddy", "Garden Buddy", "Acting Buddy" and "Science Buddy". Access California Services (Letter of Intent 179) and Latin Leaders (Letter of Intent F11) will provide several leadership workshops to youth interns as well. B. Indicate the number of youth that will participate in the civic engagement or leadership development opportunity. The Summer Youth Leadership Institute program will target Santa Ana youth between the ages of 14 and 24 years. Youth will be recruited through a combination of planned entertainment, free food and beverages, and partnerships with the represented agencies. Given previous experience working with organizing community fairs, our department estimates that we will have roughly 200 youth in attendance at the fair. The YCE will organize a curriculum for up to 80 youth to participate in the 6 week leadership program following the volunteer fair. These youth will be drawn from interns from other WIOA programs as well as from the general young adult (14-24) population of Santa Ana. These 80 youth will be given an overview of the basics of civic participation including but not limited to lessons on the organizational structure of the City of Santa Ana, the various locally elected positions, and differences between City, SAUSD, and County government. The participants will then be divided into smaller cohorts to work on specialized civic projects of their own choosing. All 15 WIOA youth will be part of these civic engagement projects. The attendance at the individual events ranges from 5-60 people depending on the size of the event. Most of the sessions will take place in groups of less than 20. C. Special consideration for organizations that can leverage funds to provide services to non-WIOA youth participants. We are able to leverage our funding to include the WIOA youth participants in a host of civic engagement events throughout the programing calendar. The active engagement of Santa Ana youth in civic affairs is part of the core mission of the SAYL T eenSpace program. The Youth Leadership Institute program will leverage funds from the general fund allocation to Civic Engagement to meet the strategic goals of both WIOA and the YCE programs. Youth from WIOA will be given a priority in applying for this institute, although the program will be open to all Santa Ana youth age 14-24. 12. SupEortive Services E. Will your organization provide supportive services to youth such as gas cards bus pass childcare assistance, etc. If so, please describe. Seeds to Trees Academy program will provide supportive services, in the form of transportation to and from training sites, professional clothing assistance, college course books, portfolios and background checks/live-scans. Additionally, youth WIOA participants will be able to participate in the City of Santa Ana Employee Blue Skies program and receive incentives for using an alternate mode of transportation to commute to and from work each day ( please refer to letter of intent F13 and attachment W-12 for benefits of the Blue Skies program) 19