SANTA ANA PUBLIC LIBRARY (2) - 2012

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schedule time to tutor them on a daily or weekly one-on-one basis to help increase their basic skill level to the 9th grade level. Students who are not basic skills deficient will also have access to one-on-one hands-on tutoring, primarily in English (as this is what is most needed in the production field) with the goal of increasing the grade levels of their English abilities. Tutoring help will be provided to in -school youth who are in 12th grade to help them to complete their high school diplomas. Out of school youth who do not possess a high school diploma must enroll in the library GED completion program in order to receive additional assistance in order to complete their GED. Civic Engagement and Leadership Development (Santa Ana Public Library): All student interns will spend a portion of their on-the-job work time assisting TeenSpace staff in one of our "Buddy" programs. As part of the "Buddy " program, student interns will be given the opportunity to learn to mentor and serve as role models to younger children (4-11) in a variety of our ongoing "Buddy" programs such as "Reading Buddy", "Math Buddy", "Art Buddy", "Sports Buddy", "Healthy Buddy", "Garden Buddy", "Acting Buddy" and "Science Buddy ". All interns will have the opportunity to join the Teen Library Club volunteer program, and participate in the Club's many community and library volunteer service projects, such as the Santiago Creek Clean-ups, OC Marathon Clean-ups, Heritage House Gala Fundraisers, Autism Walk, Library Halloween Haunted House, Santa's Corner, and Library Book Sales. Interns will also have the opportunity to develop their leadership skills at a Teen Library Club Youth Leadership Institute that will be held in January 2012. The Youth Leadership Institute will be a one -week event culminating in weekend over -night stay at the library. They will further fine tune their leadership skills when they attend TeenSpace "Public Speaking" workshops. Entrepreneurship: All student interns will receive instruction in the basics of marketing strategies during the course of the in -class training. Participants in the Digital Media Apprenticeship Program will be enrolled in an advance marketing course in order to learn how to promote themselves and gain important skills to build their own digital media freelancing work career. Interns will also be taken on a fieldtrip to a Public Relations firm as part of their marketing coursework. In addition to this, all student interns will attend several workshops put on by the RSCCD Youth Entrepreneurship Program (YEP) at the Santa Ana Public Library as part of their on -the job work experience. Upon exiting the program all participants will be able to enroll in the YEP program to further gain training and development in building their own digital media freelancing business. (Please refer to attachment #9) Mentorship: Mentorship has always been a cornerstone of the Santa Ana Public Library's Teen (12- 18) and Young Adult (18-24) programming, and thus it will be a cornerstone of the "Seeds to Trees Academy" program as well. All program participants will be assigned a Tutor Mentor, who they will meet with on a weekly basis as part of their on -the job training. They will discuss the progress of their vocational and on -the job training as well as any additional educational, tutoring or support service needs that they may have. Tutor Mentors, will provide the necessary resources to meet their mentees needs (please see attachment #10 for a list of resources). Tutor Mentors will also schedule their mentees' tutoring times at this meeting. In addition to mentoring from their assigned Tutor Mentors, interns will also receive mentorship on their particular production projects from project mentors. These Project Mentors will be responsible for helping interns develop and produce content for programming on specific topics (please see attachment #11 for a list of tutor mentors and project mentors). They will also receive mentoring from the Lead Case Manager who will meet with them on a bi-monthly basis to track their progress, and needs. Interns will also receive additional mentoring from their in - class vocational training instructors (please see attachment #12 for a list of RSCCD vocational training mentors). Life Skills: During the course of their on-the-job work experience, all interns will be assigned to attend several life skills development workshops in areas of financial management, healthy living, green living, and independent living domestic skills like cooking, gardening and sewing basics. All these are programs that are a part of ongoing TeenSpace programming (refer to attachment #13 for a list of current TeenSpace programs). Exhibit A