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available to assist them with the completion of their degree. Therefore, many students perform poorly and eventually drop out of college. D. Specify how your organization will address the barriers that youth encounter The "Seeds to Trees" program plans to recruit youth with barriers to employment, educational advancement, and a successful future. The Seeds to Trees program will supports students by providing resources, knowledge and/or informational tools to find personal connections for educational and local workforce opportunities. Students will partake in various activities to enhance their educational, employment and life skills. Youth who are TABE tested and determined basic skills deficient will be provided with one-on- one tutoring in order to assist them to improve those skills. All youth participants will be provided with valuable work experience via internship and externship opportunities offered by the Seeds to Trees Institute. Youth participants who are drop -outs or in danger of dropping out will be enrolled in the SAC School of Continuing Education high school diploma or GED completion program and will be provided with one-on-one tutoring to assist them with classes. All youth participants will be provided work training leading to state recognized certificates in computer maintenance and repair or general clerical as well as industry recognized certificates in customer service and digital media disciplines. To address the barriers to post -secondary education, all youth will be enrolled into Santa Ana College, and will be provided specialized college course training leading to college credits upon completion. Given the dramatic 13 % decline in the employment prospects of American teens recently reported by the Brookings Institution, it is vital that training programs offer flexible education models that can adapt to changing needs of employers. The Brookings report found that many of teens would face permanent effects of being locked out of the job market. Per the research findings in the report, we believe that our MOOC pilot program cohorts can help to link high school students to post -secondary educational credentials. Furthermore these courses will help to strengthen career and technical education opportunities in industry specific areas. An additional benefit of these courses is that they are highly adaptable to local job market conditions and can be tailored to the regional labor market as the Brookings institution suggests. 5. Paid & Unmaid Work Experience A. Describe in detail the paid and unpaid work experience opportunities that will be offered to the youth such as: 1. Summer Employment: 5-8 youth participants of 2017-2018 Seeds to Trees Academy program will be hired on as library page interns in the summer of 2018. 2. Pre -apprenticeship programs; 3. Internships or job -shadowing; 4.On-the-Job training opportunities: The entire format of the "Seeds to Trees" program focuses on work -based learning opportunities via an apprenticeship approach. All 22 WIA eligible youth are hired as apprentice Work Experience employees (WEX) and paid an hourly wage to receive a complete in -class and on-the-job training work experience that they can use to propel them into higher education, employment and/or self-employment as a freelance entrepreneur. As part of their work experience, all apprentices will be provided opportunities to obtain internships onsite working on various digital media productions for CTV3, as well externships at sites that have 1 /: for-ITIM