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Sacramento Sustainability Academy

Sacramento Sustainability Academy

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:

  1. Resides within a Qualified Census Tract (a low-income area as designated by the Department of Housing and Urban Development);
  2. Resides in a low- or moderate-income household;
  3. Resides in a household that experienced unemployment;
  4. Resides in a household that experienced increased food or housing insecurity;
  5. Resides in a household that is receiving services from Tribal governments; or
  6. 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:

  1. Have not participated in an AmeriCorps program;
  2. May have difficulty finding employment;
  3. Are low-income;
  4. Are unemployed and/or out of school;
  5. Are or were justice-involved;
  6. Are in or transitioning from foster care; or
  7. Are engaged with the mental health or substance abuse system.

Sierra Service Project works to build strong connections and resilience among communities. Join us in home repair work so residents throughout the Western United States can safely age in place.

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