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2025-26 Orange County Children's Therapeutic Arts Center (OCCTAQ Youth Employment Program 3. Population (2 pages max): A. Describe the total number of youth that will be served by this grant. -The WIOA program at OCCTAC will serve a total of 25 WIOA participants. The program will serve 20 out of school youth (ages 16--24) and 5 in-school youth (ages 16—24)for a total of 25 youth. B. Describe the age range of the youth that will be served —The WIOA program will serve participants as young as 1.6 and as old as 24 years of age. C. Describe minimum requirements that youth need to have in order to be enrolled into your program.Aside from the basic WIOA requirements of being a Santa Ana Resident (16--24 yrs.), and having a right to work documentation, our participants have to complete the following: 1) complete a background check, 2) obtain a negative TB test, and 3) attend a mandatory orientation session before completing the eligibility documentation. D. Special consideration for organizations that can serve the following youth populations: (80% of Out-of-School youth (required); 10% of youth with disabilities; 10% of foster/emancipated youth; 10% homeless youth and 10% of youth on probation). For the past 15 years, OCCTAC has always exceeded the number of youth with disabilities served in this program. Also, in the past few years, we have also exceeded the percentage required for Foster youth in the program,thanks to our strong community partners and their referrals to OCCTAC. See below Table 2 for past Enrollment Numbers and percentages. Table 2- Percentages of Youth Population served at OCCTAC • p t o 0, - � ,8, Ofi�9- �2 Out of School Youth 75% 75% 80% 82% 80% Youth with Disabilities 25% 25% 50% 52% 50% Foster Youth 15% 15% 5% 0% 15% High School Dropouts 15% 30% 20% 9% 15% Youth on Probation 5% 0% 0% 0% 0% Homeless Youth 5% 5% 10% 4% 10% As seen on Table 2 above, OCCTAC has exceeded the minimum percentage required by this grant in most youth populations/categories, except for youth on probation. Therefore,this year we will expand our network and community partnerships to ensure the minimum of 10% for this target population. One new potential partner is Project Kinship, who serves youth on probation and is located in the same facility where OCCTAC is located! We have had some preliminary conversations on the possibility of getting referrals from them. See letter of support from our key community partners, including:the County of Orange, Social Services, (Foster Youth), Santa Ana Unified School District,TPP(youth with disabilities),Santa Ana College (out of school youth),and others. 3