SANTA ANA PUBLIC LIBRARY (7) -2015

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into productive educational courses, The Adult Education Center will also have access to the resources that are typically made available to other incoming community college students. 4. What kind of impact your organization has made on the youth community? According to the US Census, 48% of adults over the age of 25 in Santa Ana (over 89,000 residents) do not have a High School Diploma or GED equivalent. Over 20% of households in the city do not have a member in the household over the age of 14 that can speak English fluently. The Continuing Education Center has answered these needs for the last 33 years by providing a place where students lacking a high school diploma could take the steps needed to complete their secondary education. Last year a total of 13,072 courses were completed by all students in the program. The Center served a total of 24,259 students enrolled in various programs. Of these, 4,558 were full -time equivalent students working towards a degree or credential. In addition, Centennial Education Center students earned over 1,400 state approved certificates in English as a second language and career and technical education programs. 2. Proposed Program A. Provide an overview of the program's main objectives The "Seeds to Trees Academy: Digital Media Technology Institute" program developed by the Santa Ana Public Library in partnership with Santa Ana College (SAC) is a free comprehensive apprenticeship program comprised of paid training and work- experience consisting of student internships and externships for 22 youth ages 14 -24 leading to certifications and college credit in the fields of digital media, business, and computer information technology. Of these 22 WIOA eligible student interns, 15 youth (75 %) will be "Out -Of- School Youth" (ages 16 -24) and 7 youth (25 %) will be "In- School Youth" (ages 14 -21). At least 4 (20 %) will be foster or probation youth, youth with learning disabilities and /or youth who have dropped out of high school. In addition to the youth populations mentioned above, the program will be recruiting returning veterans who are out —of- school youth (18 -24). The program is an evolutionary outgrowth of the library's previously successful WIA funded "Seeds to Trees Digital Media Technology" program that the library implemented successfully for 3 years in partnership with the Rancho Santiago Community College District's (RSCCD) Corporate Training Institute (CTI). This program was revamped for 2014 -2015 by modifying the Seeds to Trees approach to include additional elements considered beneficial to the participants of the program. These additional elements are: 1) enrolling all participants in Santa Ana College and paid training leading to transferable college credit; 2) increased focus on work - experience internships and externships at local businesses and city departments leading to potential employment and; 3) a pilot program element that introduces participants to post- secondary Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) in a structured staff /tutor led classroom setting. We will continue to focus on providing youth participants with these three additional elements for 2015 -2017. (Please refer to attachment W3 for a further explanation of MOOC'S) The program will provide participants with WIOA Elements 1 -14. 1) The program will offer students tutoring, study skills training, and instruction leading to the completion of a high school diploma and post- secondary education readiness. 2) Students who are high school dropouts will have the opportunity to complete their high school diploma or attain their GED via programs provided by the SAC School of Continuing Education, 3) EXHIBIT A