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project staff will also assist participants in getting transportation to other activities whenever possible. Prior experience with the CBOC organization has indicated that the adult mentors will also assist participants with transportation needs. EXPERIENCE For many years, the Santa Ana Unified School District collaborated with the Santa Ana PIC and now the WIB in providing CET A, JTP A and now WIA programs. During that time, over 7,200 students have participated in a variety of summer and in-school year programs. While operating these programs, District personaeI in the Secondary Enrichment Programs office at the ROP Ritchey Center have developed a positive working relationship with the W/O/R/K Center staff that has now carried over into WlA programs. The Santa Ana Unified School District staff in the Career DevelopmentIROP Department's Secondary Enrichment programs office is very experienced with youth programs and at-risk populations. This is particularly true with respect to dealing with the data collection requirements of similar types of youth related programs; both those problems encountered in enrolling potential participants and those unique to reporting program completion data. For the past several years, District staff has been successful in recruiting and serving the at-risk population. This is not to say that there have not been problems in the past with recruitment or placement goals going unmet. But staff has learned from experience and is ready to deal with the real difficulties encountered in the enrollment, placement and data collection processes. This need to always be on a continuous learning curve was just recently re-affirmed during the 2006/07 program year with the revision of several former procedures regarding case notes and the VOS system. Staff is also well versed in the completion of ongoing Individual Service Strategy documents for each participant, VOS, the administration of objective assessments, etc. The Career DevelopmentIROP Department has literally hundreds of relationships in place with area employers who have experienced success with prior youth program participants. This is particularly true of those paid internship positions utilized in past JTPA programs such as the School Workplace Internship program, the Arts-in-the-City program and the WlA Success Bound! & Right Start! programs. In addition to these, WlA youth participants will have access to the hundreds of regular ROP internship sites partnered with specific career preparation courses. Paid, non-paid, job shadowing and other related activities will also be accessible to the WIA participants via the Career Centers at the high schools and the CTS lab at the ROP Ritchey Center. The adult mentors form Career Beginnings of Orange County (CBOC) will also be a resource to program participants. The proposed staffing will include only Career DevelopmentIROP staff members with prior WlA experience. Given the scope of this project and the experience from the 2006/07 program year, it is clear that the proposed staff should be sufficient. The proposed staff will be supported by the infrastructure of the Career DeveloprnentlROP office and the College/Career Centers at each high school. Allied with the District staff will be support personnel from other agencies such as EDD, the W/O/RJK Center, Cal-WORKS and other member of the Youth Service Provider Network. Paid and volunteer staff from Career Beginnings of Orange County will also support the team providing collaborative services to the In-School program participants. The efforts of these support staff and others will serve to leverage the WlA direct funded services into a more successful program for the Success Bound! participants.