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DocuSign Envelope ID: 4B292955- 9A36- 47C6- BDDE- 4E9CDOBA074D <br />EXHIBIT A: PROVIDER'S OUTSIDE AGENCY APPLICATION <br />supervises UNC students who serve as mentors to local kids while taking classes <br />related to their mentoring experience. VFY staff attend regular planning meetings <br />with the SMART coordinators and a SMART mentor works in VFY's office each <br />summer to help with planning. <br />• Family Success Alliance — Volunteers for Youth is one of a number of agencies <br />who have come together through the Orange County Health Department's Family <br />Success Alliance to provide services to families and children in two targeted zones <br />in Orange County. VFY staff attend monthly planning meetings with other agency <br />staff and FSA navigators to discuss ways to best meet needs in these zones. VFY <br />provides one -on -one mentors and mentoring groups to youth in the zones. <br />• Third Sector Alliance — VFY's executive director spearheads an alliance of <br />nonprofit organizations in Orange County aimed at strengthening the voice of local <br />nonprofits for the benefit of our clients. <br />• Juvenile Crime Prevention Council - Volunteers for Youth is part of the Juvenile <br />Crime Prevention Council (JCPC), made up of youth - serving professionals in <br />Orange County who assess local youth needs, evaluate youth programs, and <br />make decisions about how money from the North Carolina Division of Juvenile <br />Justice should be used to meet those needs. VFY staff communicate regularly <br />with other JCPC agencies including Boomerang, Dispute Settlement Center, and <br />Family Advocacy Network, about the progress of shared clients and ways to best <br />meet their needs. <br />• Orange Partnership for Alcohol and Drug Free Youth — Volunteers for Youth <br />partners with OPADFY, an initiative of Healthy Carolinians of Orange County that <br />brings together community members, agencies, schools and organizations in <br />Hillsborough and rural Orange County concerned about the issue of underage <br />drinking and drug use. VFY's teen court coordinator chairs the OPADFY board. <br />Program Description (3 pages OR LESS) <br />Please provide the following information about the proposed program: <br />d) Summarize the program services proposed and how the program will address a <br />Town /County priority /goal? <br />Through mentoring, community service, and teen court services, Volunteers for <br />Youth will address Priority Area #2: education, mentorship, and afterschool <br />programming for 180 youth facing a variety of challenges. <br />Mentoring: <br />• Volunteers for Youth will recruit, screen, train, and supervise volunteers to <br />serve as one -on -one mentors to children who could benefit from the time and <br />attention of a caring adult role model. Volunteers in the community mentoring <br />component will commit to getting together with their mentees for at least two <br />hours a week for one year and those in the SMART mentoring component will <br />commit to a minimum of two hours a week for eight months. At least 45 <br />children will participate in the one -on -one mentoring program during the 2018- <br />19 fiscal year. <br />Group mentoring: Volunteers for Youth will host a weekly life skills group for <br />girls in seventh — tenth grades during the 2018 -19 school years. A Volunteers <br />PROGRAM INFORMATION 1/19/2018 2:38:17 PM Page 15 of 26 <br />