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Innovation and Economic Development

Workforce Development

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Innovation and Economic Development

Workforce Development

The City’s Office of Innovation and Economic Development is focused on better connecting residents in underserved communities with critical workforce resources. The workforce development priorities and goals are to build capacity, expand the reach of workforce development training activities and provide wraparound and supportive services into the neighborhoods.

The City’s workforce development programs will support and advance inclusive economic growth, improve the health of neighborhoods and support people, places, and actions that promote overall economic recovery and impacts immediately and well beyond the pandemic.

Youth Service Corps - Youth and Young Adult Work Experience

The City of Sacramento Office of Innovation and Economic Development is pleased to announce the release of Youth Service Corps (YSC) NOFO (Formerly CaliforniansForAll). The City is seeking applications from non-profit community-based organizations (CBOs) and governmental entities to conduct a YSC Young Adult Work Experience Program. There are two funding opportunities available under this NOFO. Applicants can apply for an approximately eight-month program (end of March 2025 to end of December 2025) or for an approximately three-month summer program (June 2025 – August 2025). For-profit entities are not eligible for YSC Grant funding. The City has allocated approximately $1 million of the YSC Grant for the Young Adult Work Experience Program. Non-profits and governmental entities will train and employ Sacramento’s priority youth and young adults in the areas of climate, food insecurity, education, and public service. The NOFO and application portal opened February 18, 2025 and closed on March 24, 2025 at 5:00 p.m. (PST)

2025 YSC Award Announcement

The Workforce Development Team is excited to announce the funding awards for the Youth Service Corps Employment Program. In total, $1,240,000 will be awarded to the following projects in two separate categories:

Year-Round Program

Sacramento Sustainability Academy - Lead Applicant: Sierra Service Project
Career Advancement Academy - Lead Applicant: CRE Pathways, Partner: 4 Your Epiphany
Clinical Research Workforce Developement Program - Lead Applicant: UC Davis, Partner: La Familia Counseling Center

Summer Program

Marisol Village Career Academy - Lead Applicant: Urban Strategies, Inc.
District 2 Workforce Collaborative - Lead Applicant: Roberts Family Development Center, Partners: Academics 4 Athletes, I Am ManPower
Project Milestone - Lead Applicant: Improve Your Tomorrow
Green Careers Launchpad - Lead Applicant: Humanbulb

Six program graduates with certificates stand with program managers and city councilmember at graduation ceremony

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Childcare

See active programs to support childcare initiatives in Sacramento

ECE Apprenticeship Program

The Early Childhood Education (ECE) Apprenticeship Program is designed to provide education and training to apprentices over a four-semester period. Apprentices enroll in subsidized ECE courses at Los Rios Community College while working at local Early Learning & Childcare programs throughout Sacramento. Apprentices receive on-the-job training and mentoring from experienced ECE teachers, and supportive services including tutoring, and wrap-around services from community-based organizations. The program is designed to meet the immediate childcare labor force need by increasing the ECE workforce. In addition, the ECE apprenticeship program helps build childcare center capacity, improves program quality, and creates career pathways. Some program highlights:

$394,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Labor funded Cohort 2 consisting of 13 participants
Cohort 3 with 25 participants was funded by a grant from the U.S. Small Business Administration
Apprentices in the program receive wraparound services to remove barriers to program completion
Participants take 4 ECE courses and, upon completion, qualify for a Child Development Associate Teacher Permit from the CA Commission on Teacher Credentialing

U.S. Small Business Administration Funded Projects

The City received $850,000 for early learning and childcare capacity building, expansion, and technical assistance. Infant and toddler expansion programs, technical assistance, and workforce training programs aim to build workforce capacity and move children off waitlists. Some program highlights include:

Family Childcare Home (FCCH) Provider Start-up Stipend program providing technical assistance to prepare individuals to open FCCH sites
Family Childcare Home Business Development training
Infant and Toddler Expansion Program

Young man in classroom shakes Governor Newsom's hand while several other young men in line wait to shake his hand

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Workforce Accomplishments

See what our office has been working on

CARES Act funded workforce recovery program

Mayor and City Council in July 2020 allocated $10 million in Federal CARES Act funding to workforce development programs and resources to help counter the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on Sacramento’s families and communities.

This was the first-ever workforce development investment of this size, by the City of Sacramento. This allocation provided grant funding to 29 workforce programs, implemented by over 30 workforce providers that served 2,100 Sacramento residents

Learn more at the City’s COVID Relief website.

CaliforniansForAll Workforce Development Grant

In June 2022, the City accepted a $6,980,080 CaliforniansForAll Youth Workforce Development Grant through California Volunteers to develop non-profit and public sector pathways for young people ages 16 to 30 to step into existing high-need positions through sustainable pre-apprenticeship and on-the-job training (OJT) programs that support long-term COVID-19 recovery and climate change mitigation goals. This programming will support ongoing workforce efforts to fortify career pathways into public sector and high-growth jobs and institute a more cohesive youth workforce ecosystem that better aligns with the efforts of public agencies, education systems, Community Based Organizations (CBOs) and employers within growing local industries.

The City used funding to:

Develop a youth workforce pipeline into City departments with the greatest labor needs such as the Department of Utilities, Public Works, Youth Parks, & Community Enrichment;
Subgrant to CBOs and other public agencies to train and manage youth internships within their organizations in the key areas of climate, food insecurity, and local COVID-19 recovery;
and Subgrant to CBOs to provide wrap-around services and job readiness for youth participating in the program.

ARPA Childcare Expansion

$1.5M in ARPA funding has gone toward establishing and expanding childcare programs and initiatives in Sacramento:

Childcare Provider Stipend - 123 Family Child Care Home (FCCH) programs received $5,000 for a total of $615,000; 29 Child Care Center programs each received $7,500 for a total of $217,500
The first cohort of the Early Childhood Education Apprenticeship Program graduated 9 apprentices. See above for more details about this program.
The Family Child Care Home (FCCH) Stipend Start-up Program supported 44 new family childcare home providers in receiving licensing. These providers speak 8 languages and have created 352 slots for infants and toddlers.

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Workforce Development

Youth Service Corps - Youth and Young Adult Work Experience

2025 YSC Award Announcement

Childcare

ECE Apprenticeship Program

U.S. Small Business Administration Funded Projects

Workforce Accomplishments

CARES Act funded workforce recovery program

CaliforniansForAll Workforce Development Grant

ARPA Childcare Expansion

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