About Us
Creating a better future for our youth begins with building a strong, diverse, and committed workforce in our schools. Our Career Pipeline provides a pathway for high school and college/university students looking to enter the fields of Education or School-Based Mental Health and Wellness.
What is the Career Pipeline?
The Career Pipeline provides a clear path and continuum of supports to a professional career to all students, including students belonging to historically underrepresented communities or who have other challenges applying to or entering certain professions. Educational and career supports such as test preparation, academic support, shadowing or intern experiences, and mentoring are offered starting in secondary school through college and beyond.
Schools as Centers of Wellness
Bring the education and health systems together as partners to create a continuum of care for mental health and wellness throughout Sacramento County’s education system(s) which will intervene as early as possible to:
Eliminate the school-to-prison pipeline
Reduce the number of ‘system-involved’ adults
and adolescentsMitigate the onset and impact of mental health disorders in Sacramento County
In collaboration with our 13 school districts, identify and address the mental health and wellness needs of all students in Sacramento County, by placing a mental health professional in EVERY SCHOOL and creating a system in which all adults understand their role and contribute to supporting the school-community-continuum-of-care.
Centering Equity
In the development of the pipeline, we center our equity imperative which is as follows:
SCOE believes its efforts are enriched by the diversity of its staff and those they serve.
SCOE strives to cultivate an anti-racist organization that promotes a sense of belonging for every learner, family, educator, and employee.
SCOE believes that creative and innovative strategies, programs, and services must be developed and promoted to meet the unique needs of all learners and to eliminate opportunity and achievement gaps. In doing so, SCOE will disrupt inequities and re-envision education with a focus on empowering the next generation of youth to take on new challenges and thrive.
Centering Youth Voice
7 Themes from Youth Voice Empathy Interviews:
Provide financial support
Provide support to families and caregivers of participants
Allow for peer-to-peer connections
Ensure guidance from a supervisor or professor
Support career options in high school
Provide mental health training and/or support
Coordinate with existing efforts
Urgent Call: Need for Mental Health & Wellness Professionals in Schools
Prevention & Early Intervention
Need for preventative and intervention services on school sites
Career Pathway for Mental Health
Lack of a clear path to the mental health profession
Diversity & Representation
Need for diverse representation and culturally competent care, including multilingual services
Peer Mentors
Youth request for near peer and peer mentor services and training
Workforce
Demonstrated workforce need in Sacramento County
Urgent Call: The Need for Educators
We must Increase the number and preparedness of all teachers available to Sacramento County Public School Districts.
8-10,000
The expansion of Transitional Kindergarten in California means we need 8,000–10,000 more TK teachers statewide.
196
In Sacramento County, we will need approximately 196 new Transitional Kindergarten teachers and 100 Preschool teachers by 2025–2026.
3 million
California has almost 3 million children under the age of 5, yet we trail behind other states in access to early education.
80%
In Sacramento County, there is projected to be an 80% shortage of Special Education teachers in 2023–2025.
37%
Only 37% of California children under 5 are enrolled in transitional kindergarten and state-subsidized preschool programs.
About SCOE
The Sacramento County Office of Education (SCOE) is one of 58 county offices of education in California. Approximately 650 regular and more than 950 temporary and substitute SCOE staff work year-round providing services which complement and supplement those offered by public school districts in Sacramento County. SCOE provides technical assistance, curriculum and instructional support, staff development, legal and financial advice, and oversight to Sacramento County school districts.
SCOE plays a leadership role in the delivery of quality education to the students in Sacramento County. SCOE directly educates more than 30,000 children and adults and provides support services to more than 243,000 students in 13 school districts. Many SCOE programs and services are available to schools, districts, and other county offices of education within the Capital Service Region.
