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Orange County Conservation Corps <br />Santa Ana Workforce Investment Board -The Youth Service Provider Network <br />Request for Proposal <br />PY 2009/2010 <br />Case Management Ongoing • WIA Program Specialist <br /> • Director of Programs <br />Program Services Crew Supervisor <br />• Paid work • 24 months max . 4 Teachers, 1 Tutor <br />experience Corps-2-Career Specialist <br />• Charter School until diploma reed • WIA Program Specialist <br />• Transition Skills • 8-13 weeks <br />• Completion • 60 days <br />• Tutoring <br />Placement in Jobs or 60-day program completion Corps-2-Career Specialist <br />Continuing Education Follow up services • Program Specialist <br />Follow up & Retention Minimum 12 months • Program Specialist & <br /> Corps-2-Career Specialist <br />** Most OCCC corpsmembers are generally adults who support themselves and many may be <br />estranged from their parents for various reasons. Therefore, parent involvement with the program is <br />unusual. Parents are invited to and will most often attend graduation ceremonies and other OCCC <br />events that honor corpsmember accomplishments. However, parent involvement with the program <br />beyond attendance at these events is normally not expected. The OCCC does plan several activities <br />during the year to include corpsmembers' parents, significant others, and their children to promote <br />family involvement. <br />3. Describe how adeauate staffing will be maintained to ensure success of this program <br />Two full-time OCCC staff will be responsible for recruiting Santa Ana youth. The OCCC corpsmember <br />Recruiter is responsible for recruiting for all OCCC programs and will allocate a portion of their time to <br />recruiting Santa Ana youth. The OCCC Program Specialist (case manager) assigned to the Santa Ana <br />WIA contract will be responsible for ensuring enrollment goals are met and will also allocate a portion <br />of their time to recruitment. Selected Santa Ana corpsmembers will be trained to accompany staff and <br />provide "peer recruitment" to assist staff with street outreach and help organize and manage OCCC <br />booths at the various Santa Ana job fairs and community events. Other OCCC staff may also provide <br />recruitment through ongoing collaborations and networking with other agencies county-wide as in- <br />kindsupport of this proposal. <br />4. Describe how training and emplovment services lead to occupations in high growth/huh <br />demand industries. <br />Employment services that are provided through the OCCC's Corps-2-Career class lead to occupations <br />in high growth/high demand industries. corpsmembers in the Corps-2-Career class use the O*NET <br />Interest ProfilerT"' compatible with Holland's R-I-A-S-E-C Interest Structure (Holland, 1985) to assess <br />their career occupational interest. Based on the obtained results, the corpsmembers research the jobs <br />on O*NET to obtain expected job growth, wages and educational requirements. Subsequently, <br />depending on the training that is needed, corpsmembers are referred to ROP, Community Colleges, <br />Apprenticeship Programs and Technical Schools. Additionally, presenters are scheduled from a <br />variety ofhigh-demand industries including green jobs, medical careers, etc. <br />:e <br />5. Describe how training and services result in career paths that lead youth towards self <br />sufficiency. Please orovide Labor Market Information if training is provided <br />Page 15 of 21 <br />