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EXHIBIT 1 <br />20-19-20 Orange County Children's Therapeutic Arts Center <br />Youth Employment Program - WIOA Proposal <br />1. Youth with Disabilities: OCCTAC has had a strong partnership with the Santa Ana Unified <br />School District, Transition Partnership Program (TPP) during the past 12 years, in order to <br />serve youth with disabilities. As seen in Table 2, OCCTAC has exceeded the 10% minimum <br />and last year served 50% of youth with disabilit!esl We are grateful to our key community <br />partnerSAUSD TPP program staff for all of their referrals and support! <br />2. Poster/Emancipated Youth: OCCTAC will continue to collaborate with the County of Orange, <br />Social Services, to continue to serve foster/emancipated youth. OCCTAC has been a partner <br />with the County since 2007, We are looking forward to strengthening this partnership and <br />serve more foster/emancipated youth in Orange County this year! <br />I. Youth on Probation: As stated previously, OCCTAC has been in preliminary conversations <br />with the ED at Project Kinship (Steven Kim) on the possibility of collaborating and getting <br />referrals from their program for our WIOA program. Project Kinship recently moved their <br />operations to the same building (2215 N, Broadway — second floor) where OCCTAC agency Is <br />locatedl The mission of Project Kinship is to provide support and training to lives impacted <br />by incarceration, gangs, and violence through hope, healing, and transformation. <br />4. Homeless Youth: OCCTAC is very excited to collaborate this year with the WISEPIace, an <br />organization that focuses primarily on serving homeless women (youth and adults). <br />WISEPIace will continue to refer homeless youth to OCCTAC's Youth Employment Program, <br />as well refer adults to the various Santa Ana College certificate programs available at <br />OCCTAC. We are very excited aboutthis new community partnershipl <br />In addition to our excellent community partnerships, OCCTAC will continue to conduct <br />community outreach and special communityevents throughoutthe yearto promote our <br />programs and inform the youth in the Santa Ana community aboutthis wonderful WiOA <br />program, See Table 3 for mare information. <br />F. Include a Letter(s) of Support from organizations that have agreed to refer youth to your <br />program as Attachment C. — See attached the following letters from our community partners: <br />1) Santa Ana Unified School District, TPP —Youth with Disabilities; 2) County of orange, Social <br />Services —Foster Youth; 3) WISEPIace — Homeless Youth;4) Santa Ana College — All Referrals <br />and Services. <br />G. Describe your recruitment plan that will fulfill the requirement of enrolling 100% of youth by <br />the 211d quarter of the program (December 31, 2019). In addition to referrals from our Ivey <br />community partners, we have established a timeline that will help us with our Community <br />Outreach and Recruitment plan in the City of Santa Ana. Please see below Table 3 which <br />summarizes our recruitment plan to ensure 100%of enrollment of youth by 2nd quarter, <br />El <br />25A-26 <br />