Applications are open!
The Sacramento Sustainability Academy is a workforce development program that provides young people an introduction to climate action and community resilience work. This program is funded by grants.
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, urban agriculture as a tool for achieving food security/sovereignty through permaculture design principles (often referred to as Afro-Indigenous wisdom), and manufacturing design skills to provide young people high demand and cutting edge skills for high paying professions.
We are launching our newest program track, Architecture, Building, & Construction through a Building Cohort in January 2026.
Current opportunities
Building Cohort:
Architecture, Building, & Construction
January to June 2026
- We are excited to announce that SSP has received funding from Sacramento Children’s Fund (Measure L) through the City of Sacramento to offer three additional SSA cohorts over the next three years!
- Learn more about this cohort. Applications due December 2025.
Urban Agriculture Cohort:
Food Sovereignty
Spring & Fall 2026
- We are thrilled to share we have received funding from California Volunteers’ Youth Service Corps through the City of Sacramento to offer two additional SSA cohorts in 2026!
- Learn more about this cohort. Applications for spring due January 2026.
Program requirements for all cohorts
All program participants must:
1) Reside within Sacramento city limits
-
- Verify your address is within city boundaries before applying
- Applicants residing outside of the City of Sacramento’s limits will not be considered
2) And meet at least one of the following requirements:
-
- Reside within a Qualified Census Tract (a low-income area as designated by the Department of Housing and Urban Development);
- Reside in a low- or moderate-income household;
- Reside in a household that experienced unemployment;
- Reside in a household that experienced increased food or housing insecurity;
- Reside in a household that is receiving services from Tribal governments; or
- Reside 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.
3) 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.