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Name of Organization Name of Funded Program City of Santa Ana CDBG Scope of Work Program Year 2018-19 (July 1, 2018 - June 30, 2019) Nati's House dba Neutral Ground Neutral Ground Annual Accomplishment Goal Schedule of Performance (estimated) Quarter 1: JUL 1- SEP 30 Quarter 2: OCT 1 - DEC 31 Quarter 3: JAN 1 - MAR 31 Quarter 4: APR 1 - JUN 30 Unduplicated Participants 20 20 20 17 77 Program and Funding Description contract period. 77 Low Income Participants 100% Estimated Invoicing $ 11,466 $ 11,466 $ 11,466 $ 11,467 $ 45,865 Neutral Ground provides gang prevention and intervention, and positive youth programming and mentoring through a multi -prong approach. Neutral Ground will provide a variety of services and programming after-school to SAUSD students and Out of School Youth (OSY). In addition, Neutral Ground has highly -skilled Community Intervention Workers (CWI) that provide street outreach and first responder services to the community. After-school and intervention services are offered 7 days a week with most students accessing services at least weekly. Programming, services, and interventions are offered in multiple, tiered ways in order to most directly affect the student. • Group programming is offered after-school in the forms of group mentoring, restorative justice circles, community service, and special presentations or events. • One on one case management, violence intervention, gang disengagement, and mentoring is consistently offered, and usually accessed at least biweekly. • Street outreach and home visits area Iso conducted as needed. Individual case management and mentoring will be student -led with an adult. This will create a dynamic that will encourage students to disclose information and seek out the Neutral Ground staff member with whom they have the most connection. Neutral Ground staff will meet after school, at least weekly, to discuss students' progress in order to provide support to each other as well as to provide organizational knowledge should another staff member need to step in, support and help serve the student. All staff members are trained in restorative practice circles, including Victim -Offender mediation, the only practice recognized by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention as evidenced -based, and a model program. Staff will offer after school restorative practice circles to students and parents at least once per week. Neutral Ground staff will provide mediation services, violence de-escalation, and gang prevention and intervention Afterschool and intervention services are offered 7 days a week as needed. In addition, Neutral Ground staff will offer special presentations to parents, students, and community members on topics important for developing positive student behavior. Topics such as how drug abuse develops, bullying, crisis intervention, and the trauma effects of violence are example of topics that would be offered EXHIBIT A