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program will complement and expand offerings for participating WlA in-school participants by implementing appropriate assessment activities that focus on specific employment/employability competencies. These include resumes, job applications, bilingual medical/clerical and/or instructional proficiencies, job search techniques, related bio-medical and other academic and/or fine arts curricular expectations and an awareness of career ladder opportunities and their pre-requisites. These program activities will utilize existing Central County ROP (CCROP) and District facilities working within existing class schedules & space utilization to eliminate any potential impact on regular programs at secondary sites. The primary vehicle for the delivety of this portion of the program will be the weekly guidance/counseling meetings held on the individual high school campuses. Given the base of hundreds of internship or "Community Classroom Agreements" between the Career Development/ROP Department and local employers, the District does not need to enter into any other duplicate agreements. These when coupled with previous work-site agreements between various District sites and the W/O/RlK Center for prior JTP A in-school and summer youth employment programs will provide more than enough internship, job-shadowing, and/or employment opportunities for the Success Bound! participants. ELEMENT #5: Access to an effective program of occupational skills training. The overall approach of the Santa Ana Unified School District's Regional Occupational Program (ROP) is to maximize community resources, integrate services within the educational and business communities and find new avenues to increase the level of employer involvement in the creation of intemships and work-based learning. Allied with this activity are the strong work-based programs and tbe network linking of career pathways and work site experiences of the Central County's Regional Occupational Program (CCROP), local WIA (Success Bound), the Chamber of Commerce, the City of Santa Ana and local business and community-based organizations. The cornerstone of all of this is the ROP as it is the District's vehicle for providing appropriate, timely and effective entry-level training. Many ROP courses have work-based internships as part of the entry career certification programs. These have been integrated into the career pathways at the high schools. Allied with the ROP offerings are partnerships with Santa Ana College and local universities that enable high school students (including Success Bound! participants) to participate in articulated program of sequential courses from high school through college, Selected Success Bound! participants will be guided and counseled into Regional Occupational Program courses related to their career pathways as these courses can play such a pivotal role in their school-to-work plan. These classes will provide participants with the means to prepare for entry-level employment, receive elective credit toward graduation, enter a career pathway, sample various work site experiences, eam money for educational expenses and/or verify career choices. And from a very practical point of view, the ROP Certificates will verify that a program participant has indeed met bis/her Skill Attaimnent Rate goal. Operationally, ROP consists of a variety of occupational training programs that lead to entry-level job skills for students age 16 and over. ROP classes, which are funded by the State, include integrated classroom and work-based activities. ROP teachers are experts in their field with a minimum of five years of work-based experience and a teaching credential. Of particular importance to many of the Success Bound! participants is the fact that the,e courses are offered not only at the ROP's Ritchey Center, but also on high school campuses throughout the District. Transportation is available at no cost for afternoon courses. Courses are also available in the evening and on Saturdays. Participants in Success Bound! will be given priority registration for ROP courses during their time in the program- including the twelve-month follow-up period.