Community Assessment 2020-2025

Sacramento Employment and Training Agency 2020-2025
SERVICE AREA AND GEOGRAPHIC LOCATIONS
Sacramento County Head Start and Early Head Start are served by the grantee (SETA), five
delegate agencies and two partners.
Four delegate agencies are school districts and one is a community based not-for-profit
agency. Each delegate agency serves families in their respective parts of Sacramento County,
which is a large, urban region that includes the cities of Sacramento, Citrus Heights, Galt, Folsom,
Isleton, Elk Grove, Rancho Cordova and the unincorporated areas of the county. The county
encompasses nearly one thousand square miles and has a total of fifteen school districts.
The four school district delegate agencies serve
families within their district boundaries: Elk Grove
Unified School District covers 320 square miles
and serves 62,866 Pre-K-12 students in 67 different
locations. Elk Grove is the largest district area in all
of California. Sacramento City Unified School
District covers 70 square miles and serves 43,000
Pre-K-12 students in 76 different school locations.
San Juan Unified School District covers 77 square
miles and serves 40,299 Pre-K-12 students in 65
different locations. Twin Rivers Unified School
District covers 120 square miles and serves 27,000
Pre-K-12 students in 53 school sites.
Child from Alder Grove
The community-based Women’s Civic Improvement Club serves families within the eastern part
of the City of Sacramento, in the Oak Park neighborhood. This older, urban community is an area
of extreme contrasts and contains some of the highest and lowest income census tracts in the
county. Further, this racially and culturally diverse area has high concentrations of residents living
with poverty, unemployment, language barriers, and other unmet social needs. The Women’s
Civic Improvement Club provides services within the boundaries of the Sacramento City Unified
School District in a coordinated, unified system of service delivery.
The SETA Operated Program, along with its two partners - River Oak Center for Children
and Sacramento County Office of Education - provides Head Start/Early Head Start services in
areas outside of elementary schools and in high need areas not generally served by the five delegate
agencies or have specific populations that they address, e.g., emergency transitional housing
(Parker Avenue, Mather Transitional Housing), public housing developments (Alder Grove and
Marina Vista), school district campuses that are not Delegate Agencies (Bright Beginnings,
Bannon Creek, and North Avenue) and low-income apartment complexes (LaVerne Stewart,
Norma Johnson Center, Kennedy Estates, Illa Collin, Crossroad Gardens, and Phoenix Park). This
approach helps ensure that all low-income children in Sacramento County have access to Head
Start/Early Head Start services in neighborhoods where they reside.
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