Last month SSP announced the inaugural Sacramento Sustainability Academy, a workforce development program to provide young people an introduction to climate resilience work. Building on SSP’s history of providing youth and young adults with hands-on experience with tools, home repairs, and high impact community projects, the Academy is focused on energy efficiency through the lens of building science and urban agriculture as a tool for achieving food security/sovereignty through permaculture design principles (often referred to as Afro-Indigenous wisdom).
SSP is now hiring 12 Academy fellows and 2 supervisors, ages 16-30, for our summer cohort that runs June 12 to August 4. All program participants must reside within the city limits of Sacramento. Questions? Reach out to program leaders at ssa@sierraserviceproject.org.
All program participants and supervisors must reside within the city limits of Sacramento, and meet at least one of the following requirements:
- Resides within a Qualified Census Tract (a low-income area as designated by the Department of Housing and Urban Development);
- Resides in a low- or moderate-income household;
- Resides in a household that experienced unemployment;
- Resides in a household that experienced increased food or housing insecurity;
- Resides in a household that is receiving services from Tribal governments; or
- Resides in a household that qualifies for the following federal assistance: Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Free and Reduced Price School Lunch and Breakfast, Head Start, Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children, Section 8 Vouchers, or Pell Grant.
Priority will be given to individuals who:
- Have not participated in an AmeriCorps program;
- May have difficulty finding employment;
- Are low-income;
- Are unemployed and/or out of school;
- Are or were justice-involved;
- Are in or transitioning from foster care; or
- Are engaged with the mental health or substance abuse system.