| Group | Individual | Job Placements | Activities
w/out PI |
| Barrier Removal: Time spent supporting young people and their families with court dates and appearances, traffic and parking tickets, probation obligations, legal services, immigration services, applying for public benefits, translation services, transportation services, obtaining a driver's license/California ID, etc. | x | x | | x |
| Family Supports: Activities intended to support parents and caregivers in accessing resources that meet their family’s basic needs including childcare, food, shelter and wellness resources aimed to strengthen the social emotional relationship between parent and child. | x | x | | x |
| Food and Other Basic Needs Distribution: Providing children, youth and families access to a range of resources that meet essential needs. Examples include but are not limited to: food, increasing access to technology, shelter/housing support, clothing and transportation. | x | x | | x |
| Learning Supports: Activities that help children, youth and their families address disparities in academic outcomes. Examples include but are not limited to; support for children, youth and their adult guardians/parents for distance learning, individual or small-group tutoring, successful transitions during key periods (entering kindergarten, middle and high school), and/or completion of high school or equivalent. | x | x | | x |
| Referrals/ Connections to Services: Connecting young people to an outside agency for the purpose of accessing services that meet their needs and/or help them achieve their goals. Referrals should promote positive social and emotional learning and support access to a broad range of supports. | x | x | | x |
| Wellness and Mental Health Supports: Activities that help children, youth and their families learn and sustain practices and habits that help maintain and improve mental health; activities that help address the impacts of COVID-19 related stressors and other stressors that may affect overall wellness, like family and community violence. Examples of activities within this service category include but are not limited to wellness check-ins, mental health and wellness education, therapeutic sessions with mental health provider. | x | x | | x |
| Comprehensive Afterschool: Activities implemented afterschool during the school year that include the following components: enrichment, skill-building, physical activity and grade-specific academic and transition supports. | x | x | | x |
| School Day: Activities implemented during the school day when school is in session (not before or after school) during the school year. | x | x | | x |
| Comprehensive Summer: Activities implemented during the summer that include the following components: enrichment, skill-building, physical activity and grade-specific academic and transition supports. | x | x | | x |
| Mentorship: Activities that connect youth with caring adults who work with them over an extended period of time to provide motivation, guidance, connection and support with the ultimate aim of achieving positive goals, exploring new possibilities and increasing the youth's self-esteem and confidence. | x | x | | x |
| Enrichment/Skill Building: Enrichment/skill building activities that are implemented at a site operated by your agency and with participants that your agency recruits and enrolls. Select “Enrichment/Skill Building - Partner Agency” if you partner with another agency to provide services at their location and/or serve the participants that their agency recruits and enrolls. | x | x | | x |
| Enrichment/Skill Building - Partner Agency: Enrichment/skill building activities that are implemented in partnership with another agency. Your agency provides services at their location and/or you serve participants that the other agency recruits and enrolls. For example, an afterschool program contracts with your agency to provide an arts workshop to the youth enrolled in the afterschool program. | x | x | | x |
| ExCEL - Transfer Activity to EMS: Activities that require attendance transfers from CMS to the ExCEL Contract Management (EMS) system. For more information on the CMS to EMS Transfer, refer to the CMS Handbook Appendix E. | x | x | | x |
| Other: Activities that address emerging needs that fall outside of the other categories. Include brief rationale for selecting ‘Other’ activity category in your Activity Description. | x | x | | x |
| Internship: A paid, or unpaid, career preparation activity in which youth are placed in a business for a defined period of time to participate in and observe work firsthand within a given industry. Internships should include a formal learning contract between the youth, program, and the employer. Internships are intended to be highly structured, time-limited experiences that occur at a workplace. | | | x | |
| Job Shadow: A career exploration activity in which youth observe the workday of a professional, interact with clients or customers, and attend meetings and other appointments. Job shadows are designed to help youth explore a field of interest while developing research skills and building occupational knowledge through a facilitated, active learning process. | | | x | |
| Work Experience: A paid career preparation activity in which participants execute real work and are held to the same expectations as all employees at the workplace. Evaluations based on workplace expectations and performance should be provided by the worksite supervisor. Could be regular, paid employment, subsidized employment and/or learning-rich work experience. | | | x | |
| Events: Events including, but not limited to, Townhalls, Lights On Afterschool, Summer Learning Week. | x | x | | x |
| Staff Professional Development: Pre-approved by DCYF - Trainings, Conferences, Retreats | | | | x |