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ELEMENT #10: Access to and provision of a comprehensive array of guidance and counseling support activities that focus improving student performance and achievement. Project services for Success Bound' participants that involve this final standard have been partially addressed in several of the other standards, particularly those dealing with leadership development, supportive services and adult mentoring. As also mentioned above, the vehicle for delivering the services will normally be the weekly meetings held durin\! non-instructional times at the individual high school sites. Augmented by the services of the collaborators, this portion of the project will afford participants with comprehensive guidance and counseling services that far exceed those that they can normally access in a traditional high school setting. This aspect of the case management services for participants will also be available outside the regular school day thus making them available at times when these at-risk students do not have to be in class. Alternative methods of access are important to the target population and it is an objective of this part of the proposed program to facilitate the access of these students to supplementary supportive services. The Community Resource Specialist for the Success Bound! program will monitor participant contacts with all staff and the collaborators to ensure that all aspects of each participant's identified case management goals/ISS is being addressed. Experience with previous WIAlJTP A programs has taught that this aspect of program management is extremely import; not only with respect to reporting requirement, but more importantly, with respect to providing appropriate services to participants and coordinating case management activities that may involve of service providers in the provider's network. Case notes logged into the VOS system will be one of the primary elements in the documentation of these activities. Records from counselors and other academic guidance and career center personnel at the high schools will also be a part of each participant's file (within the parameters of existing privacy legislation). This aspect of the program would also be the main method for tracking each participant's progress towards the basic goals of the Success Bound! program. SUCCESS BOUND! PROGRAM FACILITIES SITE AVAILABILITY, ACCESSIBILITY & HOURS OF OPERATION The program will be offered primarily at the ROP Ritchey Center and the comprehensive high schools with senior classes; Century, Saddleback, Santa Ana, Segerstrom and Valley Academy. All these sites and the two continuation high schools (Chavez and Mountain View) are readily accessible to project youth. They also meet ADA requirements vis-a-vis handicap access. In recognition of the importance of the District's normal academic program and the academic standards which it embraces, Success Bound! program activities will take place outside the normal academic day. Regularly scheduled weekly meetings will take place before/after school (7:00 to 8:00 am andJor 3:00 to 5:45 pm), in the evening (6:00 to 8:30 pm) andJor during lunch that is considered as non-instructional time (1 \:15 to 11:55 am, 12:15 to 12:55 pm). The monthly evening meetings with adult mentors will take place in either the high schools or local business such as Orange County Teachers Federal Credit Union or Ingram-Micro. These sites and others such as the Santa Ana W/O/RlK Center are accessible in terms of both public transportation and handicapped accessibility. With respect to career training, school bus transportation is available for high school students attending ROP courses (this includes local drop-off points for internship opportunities) for both early and late afternoon classes. The