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receive mentoring from their WEX supervisor during their 16 weeks of work experience. This mentor will <br />provide them with support during their WEX and serve as role models for their STEM careers. <br />Supportive Services (SAWC): Participants will be provided with transportation bus passes or gas cards <br />as needed. Transportation support services will be delivered up to 6 months to facilitate program <br />participation. Additionally resources to assist in the placement in job sites will be provided, including but <br />not limited to interviewing clothes. Also available to youth, will be a licensed therapist that will provide <br />them with counseling as needed for any challenges they are encountering. <br />Employment Services (SAWC): The SAWC has a comprehensive employment services team available <br />through its integrated service delivery system which includes various partner agencies such as <br />Employment Development Department. During 2011, the employment services team was responsible for <br />listing over 10,000 job openings. Additionally, targeted group recruitments and job fairs took place onsite. <br />One particular recruitment in early 2011 resulted in over 30 people being hired on the spot. Youth <br />program participants will benefit from one on one job search assistance. Staff will be assisted by the latest <br />cutting edge technology for placement services. The WORK Center subscribes to software like Bullhorn. <br />It is a robust job snatching system that links jobs to participants using their interest and skills. The system <br />also allows staff to search for jobs beyond what exists in the database. "Spidering" technology reaches out <br />across the internet to pull jobs to match a participant skill. Bullhorn can be tailored to assists in placing <br />participants with local companies easily accessible by local transportation, a very important service for <br />youth that don't yet have a car because of their economic challenges. Furthermore, the SAWC works very <br />closely with the Enterprise Zone Program. The Enterprise Zone program is designed to promote business <br />growth and job generation by offering state tax credits to businesses that hire our youth. <br />Follow-up Services (SAWC): A total of 12 months of follow-up services will be provided to each youth <br />enrolled in the Program. Staff will maintain monthly contact with clients after they have been exited in <br />order to provide additional education and employment retention services. Such services include coaching <br />and imentoring to ensure their continued success and self-sufficiency. Our expertise in running WIA <br />programs has provided us with insight and knowledge on how to best accomplish the outcomes and <br />perfonnance needed to best serve program participants. Our program is organized so that all outcomes <br />and WIA perfonnance measures are accomplished prior to completion of the program. The intent is to <br />achieve all desired goals while we have momentum with the youth. This allows us to solely focus on <br />retention of their outcomes and more easily address any issues and concerns the youth may encounter <br />once they have left our program. <br />The SAWC has developed a great collaborative relationship over the years with all currently Santa Ana <br />WIB funded agencies. Our services and expertise has been available to them not only as the Navigator but <br />as the SAWC. Our services are offered to their participants that could not be served by their agency. The <br />SAWC and its partner agencies such as EDD have provided complementary and value added services to <br />any youth referred to us for staff assisted or self directed services. Our workforce expertise, programs and <br />services have been of great interest to the youth community and agencies serving youth. We have been <br />asked to present workshops, participate in their youth events as a resource, and provided best practices on <br />our work experience programs. Additionally, some WIA youth funded agencies have taken up our offer to <br />co-enroll their youth with our young adult services training programs, to offer their WIA youth added <br />services to becoming successful young adults in the workforce. <br />Our main services will take place at the SAWC located in the Santa Ana Train Depot and at Santa Ana <br />College easily accessible via public transportation. A majority of the WEX employers will be located in <br />Santa Ana where youth can access them via local transportation. Transportation assistance will be made <br />available through monthly bus passes and gas cards to youth, if needed. <br />Exhibit A 5