Project Description Country: USA Location: Orange County Total Budget: $4,000 Area of Focus: Economic and community development Activity Type: Community Development: General Summary: A series of six workshops designed to help men and women emerging from alcohol and drug abuse recovery reenter the workforce. This project, now entering its eighth, is a joint effort between the Sunrise Newport Beach Rotary Club, Working Wardrobe, and the Salvation Army of Orange County. Each of these partners plays a critical role in the project. The purpose is to provide support for adult men and women as they emerge from successful completion of Phase 2 of their alcohol and drug recovery programs at the Salvation Army and attempt to reenter the workforce. The men and women enrolled in these programs have been isolated for some time from a typical community environment due to a number of reasons stemming from alcohol and drug abuse. Upon recovery, they face what can seem like a daunting prospect of becoming responsible community members again and that begins with finding gainful employment. Our program is designed to help these men and women build the necessary confidence to engage in a job search that will produce a successful outcome. In doing so, community needs are met in two ways. First, businesses within the community who have employment opportunities have some eager men and women to meet their needs. Second, families who have been without a father or mother can be reunited and begin rebuilding a healthy home for their children and themselves. The project includes a program in the Fall for women and the men's program is in the Spring. The program length is six to eight weeks and both will be completed by May of 2014. The women's series will begin in early October and end before Thanksgiving. The men's series begins in February and ends before Easter. Addendum to Project Description (added after the project was signed) Our club participation in this project approaches 90% which is extraordinary by Rotary standards. The reason for such high participation is that our club members can touch both these projects in so many different ways. Some will donate clothing to the Clothing Drive for Working Wardrobes which kicks of each project. Others will act as workshop coaches who lead small group activities during the workshops. Some members choose to act as "personal shoppers" for our clients during the Success Day held just after our weekly club meeting held at Working Wardrobes. Club members attend graduation for our clients and in doing so show their support for our clients as they begin their job search. The public image plan will include but not be limited to the Newport Beach Sunrise Rotary Weekly Newsletter , the Rotary Wheel appears on the plaques awarded for graduation, the Club Rotary Banner will be present at the Success Day to be held at Working Wardrobes and at the graduation ceremony to be held at the Salvation Army Rehabilitation Center in Orange County Adult Rehabilitation Center, the project has been written up in previous years in the District 5320 Newsletter, a presentation was made on this project to the Club Presidents meeting for the District in 2013, and the Service Club Column authored by Jim DeBoom in the Newport Beach Daily Pilot. Project Contact Person District: 5320 Rotary Club of: Newport Beach Sunrise Primary Contact: Tim Brown Email: tim-brown@sbcglobal.net Project Status Completed This project is "Completed". This means the project has been implemented and the report was accepted by the district leadership. The project will stay listed on this website as a testimony of the achievements of the project partners. Project listed for the 2013-14 Rotary Year.

Proposed Financing Existing Contributions Towards This Project Date Cash DDF Total Newport Beach Sunrise (5320) 1-Aug-13 $2,000 $2,000 $4,000 Total $2,000 $2,000 $4,000

Project Supporting Documents Alphabetical with icons By date with icons Alphabetical list format By date list format [31-Jul-13] 2013-2014 Budget [12-May-14] Final Report 2013-2014 [31-Jul-13] Letter of Support from Working Wardrobes [12-May-14] Receipts Men [12-May-14] Receipts Recap [12-May-14] Receipts Women [20-Apr-14] Success Workshop 1-3 [20-Apr-14] Success Workshop 4 [20-Apr-14] Success Workshop 5 [20-Apr-14] Success Workshop 6

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History Log Entries 25-Jul-13 System Entry Creation of project page. 1-Aug-13 System Entry Project is now "Fully Pledged". 12-Aug-13 System Entry Project sent for club signatures. 12-Aug-13 System Entry Project signed by Tim Brown. 13-Aug-13 System Entry Project signed by Jeffrey Heilson. 13-Sep-13 System Entry Project approved by the District Approval Committee. 20-Sep-13 System Entry Check for DDF payment issued by Foundation Treasurer. 19-Apr-14 by Tim Brown The 2014 Success Workshops commenced on Tuesday March 18. The first three workshops are designed to build toward the "elevator speech" that is so critical for our clients in the transitional job search. Workshop #1 began with helping our clients see what kinds of workplace environments they are most comfortable. 19-Apr-14 by Tim Brown Workshop #2 was focused on helping our clients see that many of the skills they have developed in previous work experience will transfer into this transitional job. Workshop #2 also was designed to help our clients develop strategic and measurable goals to guide them through the transitional job search process. 19-Apr-14 by Tim Brown Finally, in Workshop #3 our clients begin the process of crafting their elevator speech and we begin looking at the more difficult issues they face with job applications which include how to handle felony convictions and long gaps in employment. 19-Apr-14 by Tim Brown Success Skills Workshop 4 was on Saturday and we began working on delivery of the Elevator Speech. We worked in small groups where each client was allowed to read their speech from a script followed by constructive comments from the rest of the group on how it could be improved. Later, we paired two clients together to stand and deliver the modified speeches to each other to add a little bit of pressure. Our clients are aware that Tuesday is Success Day and they will have the opportunity to further practice their speeches with Club members in attendance. After the break, Stephanie went over some of the deficiencies she noticed in the first draft off the "master application." Most of those issues surrounded leaving blanks and the use of acronyms. 19-Apr-14 by Tim Brown Success Skills Workshop 5 was on Saturday and we continued to refine "Elevator Speeches" and then began talking about the interview process. We worked in small groups where our clients were paired up and we did mock elevators speeches. It was up to each group to choose two that would role play their elevators speeches to the whole group. Some groups chose the best two and other chose the two that needed the most practice. Our approach to building interview skills is to look at the different kinds of interview questions there are and appropriate responses to those questions, We will focus on the behavioral questions and THE background questions because those are the two our clients have found most challenging over the years. 19-Apr-14 by Tim Brown Our final Success Skills Workshop for the Class of 2014 was on Saturday April 12 and we continued to refine our clients responses to the traditional, behavioral and background interview questions. Prior to the workshop, VIP Cleaners sent one of their tailors to the residence facility to measure for alterations on the new business suits provided to our clients last week by Working Wardrobes. Please be sure to patronize VIP Cleaners located on the Balboa Peninsula at 2825 Newport Blvd. Each year, VIP Cleaners contributes over $500.00 in alterations for our clients. 19-Apr-14 by Tim Brown he 2014 Day of Success for the Men was hosted by Working Wardrobes on Tuesday April 1. Among our guests were our clients at the Salvation Army Adult Recovery Center. During introductions, each of our clients stood up introduced themselves and spoke about one memorable thing about their experience in the 2014 Success Workshops. Following the business portion of our meeting, many of our club members remained to act as personal shoppers for these outstanding men. 12-May-14 System Entry Project has been implemented and final report uploaded. 12-May-14 System Entry Final report approved by the District Approval Committee.