Specifications include, but are not limited to: • Annually recruit 24 at-risk, young adults, ages 18 to 25, for a structured, fixed 12-month term, full-time, year-round on-the-job training program in horticulture, vegetation management, basic landscaping, and habitat restoration and rehabilitation, consisting of field and nursery work. In addition, proposers must: a. Screen the 24 original recruits, and advance, to the next phase, those who are committed to staying with the program, b. Refer recruits who are not committed to the program, to other Community Based Organizations (CBO’s), or agencies, c. For the remaining young-adults who are committed to staying with the program, ensure participation in apprenticeship programs to acquire additional technical skills that prepare them to be job ready, d. Ensure remaining young-adults who are committed to staying with the program, receive case management, continuing education, barrier removal, life skills and soft skills, job readiness programming, and resume preparation, e. Retain job ready, and graduate 12 to 15 of the at-risk young adults, by the end of the fixed 12-month cycle, f. Through partnerships with public and private entities, create pathways for the 12 to 15 year-round, at-risk young adult graduates - who successfully completed the fixed 12-month term – with access to potential career opportunities, paying prevailing wage. • For the Summer Program only, recruit and retain up to 150 at-risk, 16 to 18 high school age students from a diverse population of San Francisco, to serve as interns in a twomonth summer training program, each summer for the term of the grant agreement. It is anticipated that the successful proposer will operate the summer program in two fourhour shifts, morning and afternoon, five days per week, including transportation to and from work sites.