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No. Seeds to Trees Academy program does not provide supportive services. We provide all transportation to <br />and from training sites. We will provide referral services to meet youth needs. <br />E. Will your agency provide incentives to youth for accomplishing program benchmarks or personal <br />goals? If so, please describe and include the Incentive Policy as Attachment H. <br />No, we do not provide incentives as our focus is in providing a paid work experience and training. We do <br />however have a scholarship program that has been established by one of our previous WIA Seeds to Trees <br />youth interns; "The Moises Garcia Seeds to Trees" Scholarship which provides an annual scholarship of $300 to <br />a WIA youth <br />XI. Leveratre Funds <br />A. Can your agency leverage funds to offer a civic engagement opportunity to WIA youth and other <br />youth in the community aside from WIA youth participants? <br />Yes we are able to leverage our funding to include the WIA youth participants in a host of civic engagement <br />events throughout the programing calendar. The active engagement of Santa Ana youth in civic affairs is part of <br />the core mission for the SAPL TeenSpace program. <br />B. What type of civic engagement opportunities will your program engage youth in? <br />All interns will also have the opportunity to join the Teen Library Club volunteer program, and participate in <br />the many community and library volunteer service projects the club participates in, such as the Santiago Creek <br />Clean -ups, OC Marathon Clean -ups, Heritage House Gala Fundraisers, Autism Walk, Library Halloween <br />Haunted House, Santa's Corner, and Library Book Sales. Interns will also have the opportunity to develop their <br />leadership skills at a Teen Library Leadership curriculum program. The Youth Leadership program is a six - <br />month, once -a -week curriculum culminating in a manual of topics and /or community service projects discussed. <br />Some of the additional events this year include the organization and promotion of photo scanning events to <br />preserve and share local history. Additionally all student interns will spend a portion of their on- the -job work <br />time assisting TeenSpace staff in one of our "Buddy" programs. As part of the "Buddy " program, student <br />interns will be given the opportunity to learn to mentor and serve as role models to younger children (4 -11) in a <br />variety of our ongoing `Buddy" programs such as "Reading Buddy ", "Math Buddy ", "Art Buddy ", "Sports <br />Buddy ", "Healthy Buddy ", "Garden Buddy ", "Acting Buddy" and "Science Buddy ". <br />C. How many youth will participate in the civic engagement opportunity? <br />All 30 of the WIA youth will be part of these civic engagement projects. The attendance of the individual events <br />ranges from 5 -60 people depending on the size of the event. Most of the session will take place in groups <br />smaller than 20. <br />D. Can your agency leverage funds to host work readiness type of workshops once per month at local <br />after - school programs in Santa Ana. <br />Yes we have strong history of partnering with other local agencies to provide a steady stream of career and life <br />skills courses. Our partnership with the OC Probation's Department REACH program gives us access to <br />monthly sessions for our participants to attend. <br />XU. Common Measures <br />EXHIBIT A <br />