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the youth will, within 24 hours of intake, be enrolled in an appropriately selected educational institution and/or training program and will begin the pursuit of an appropriate career. Because the first day on the job or back in school can be a defining moment for the youth, the Counselor will schedule a meeting with the youth immediately after the day has ended. The Counselor, in a one-on-one counseling session, will seek to determine the youth's affective and experiential responses to the very important first day. After the meeting with the youth, the Counselor will also hold an in-home meeting with the youth's family. CHCADA will also, through the youth prevention network, attempt to identify at least two cross-age mentors so that the youth will not feel awkward and/or excluded. CHCADA will also, through volunteers, ensure that each youth has a work wardrobe that is clean, neat and current so that they will not be subjected to the ridicule of their peers. CHCADA shall have also held a meeting with each of the youth's employers to encourage them to adopt a welcoming attitude toward all Fuerzas Unidas participants. The Counselor will meet with the youth who become employed at least once more during the first week of their release. However, contact will be made by phone on every single day during this period. Contact will also be made with the youth's employers by phone at least weekly during the 120-day program. However, during the first two weeks after the youth's entry into the labor market or school, CHCADA will work diligently to ensure that the participant "catches up" vocationally or academically, does not "fall behind," and has access to support when problems emerge. 9.3. Support and Assist the Youth's Access to Referral Services Within seven (7) days of contract award, CHCADA's staff will update its database of Network providers who offer youth-specific services in the Santa Ana area. CHCADA's case management referral database will then be used to download youth- based providers by type of services offered and location. As is always true, CHCADA does not add new providers to our referral database without completing not only a review of their written literature, but a site visit as well. Our provider database will allow us to match youth with the health, mental health, literacy, anger management, gang CHCADA's Response to RFP# PY2002 Page 32