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 adolescents

  • Mitigate 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

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.