SANTA ANA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT/ROP (3) - 2010

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events. All of this information will serve to assist WIA staff in monitoring the progress of Success Bound! activities so that improvement can be made whenever necessary. Meetings with the W/O/R/K Center Service Navigation staff to ensure that administrative, recruitment and case management procedures are both effective and efficient will augment these procedures. With respect to adequate staffing or adult/participant ratios for Success Bound., a full-time Community Resource Specialist working in the Secondary Enrichment Programs section of the Career Development/ROP Department will be assigned to work directly with the participants. Past experience has shown that this staffing level is adequate to serve thirty participants at a variety of secondary school campuses. This staff member will be assisted by a part-time employee from Career Beginnings of Orange County, a part-time retired Program Specialist and most importantly the Career/College Center coordinators at each of the comprehensive high school in the District. Assuming that the participants are divided somewhat equally between the schools, there would be one adult for every 8-10 students during the bi-monthly meetings which usually last 40 minutes. Regarding the adult mentor program, the staff assists at these monthly meetings and the adult mentors normally have no more than two mentees. These meetings usually are two hours in length. Other adult/participant contact will occur as the WIA staff work with individual participants in job placement, payroll, academic advisement and other similar situations. Also, most adult mentors meet with their mentee(s) outside of the regular monthly evening meeting environment. PROGRAM DESCRIPTION The following pages outline brief program descriptions that are focused on those selected elements from the ten required WIA elements directly and/or indirectly serviced by the activities described in and requested by this RFP. The actual WIA Workplan follows these as set forth in the Attachment B format as requested in the RFP. Each is directly related to the basic goals for the Success Bound! participants: high school graduation enrollment in a higher education program the acquisition of appropriate employability skills for an entry level (or higher) position which will assist the participant in his or her pursuit of both a career and a post-secondary education and each participant's literacy/numeracy goals. Outreach / Recruitment / Eligibility Determination As mentioned previously, outreach, recruitment and eligibility determination for the Success Bound! program's target population of 12'h graders will be initiated at the end of the spring semester of the 2010/11 school year. The program design outlined below then calls for servicing the participants during their senior year. The Success Bound. program will focus on serving participants who have expressed an interest in several career pathways; Business & Marketing, Science & Technology, Health, Human Services and Entertainment, Arts & Communications or other programs such as High School Inc. that is an offering of the Santa Ana Chamber of Commerce and Santa Ana Unified SD. The following chart displays examples of factors illustrative of the recruitment target population that the WIA staff will use: • Resident of the City of Santa Ana; • Identified by school staff as at risk of dropping out; • No work history • Past record of under achievement (eighth grade or below academic level); • Past record of low motivation or interest (poor grades); • Has identified a career pathway • Teen parent, homeless or runaway; • Pattern of poor attendance or attendance in alternative programs; 14 n O 1?p -C r N O -o 0 O 4t N S N CD C_ (D C a 0 C CD n 0 a IQ CD EXHIBIT A