Select Committee on Adult Education

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Select Committee on Adult Education

• Informational Hearing
• July 29, 2003
• Joan Polster
• Sacramento City Unified School District

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Adult education contributes to student success of
school-aged children

• Greater student success when parents
• speak English
• work
• literacy skills to high school level

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SCUSD offers all 9 mandated programs

• Adult and secondary basic skills
• English as a Second Language
• Citizenship
• Vocational Education
• Parenting

• Adults with developmental disabilities
• Older adults
• Home economics
• Health and safety

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SCUSD - 4 adult schools
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54 school sites and various CBOs
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In Sacramento Region

• Adult schools provide non-credit education
• Community College provides credit courses

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Adult education responds to changing community
needs

• Short-term training for livable wage jobs
• PELL grants to pay for training
• One Stop Center site for employment and training
  related assistance
• STEP case management

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Community Needs

• Parenting for out of control teenagers
• CBET for non-English speaking adults to tutor
  school-age children
• Self sufficiency and independence training for
  adults with developmental disabilities
• Parolee reorientation program
• GED testing sites

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Skills and Business Education Center

• Vocational training
• Support services
• Collaborative partnerships
• Career development and job preparation activities

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Program of Excellence 1998

• Wide range of vocational training opportunities
• Quality of programs
• Community and business partnerships

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Available training courses

• Automotive
• Court Reporting
• Desktop publishing
• Business

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Available training courses

• Medical
• Electronic technician
• Heating and air conditioning (HVAC)
• Food preparation

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Available training courses

• Truck driver

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Available training courses

• APPRENTICESHIP
• tile setters
• bricklayers
• roofers
• glaziers
• floor coverers
• firefighters
• barbers

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One Stop Partners

• Department of Human Assistance
• Employment Development Department
• Department of Rehabilitation

• California Department of Corrections
• Sacramento Employment and Training Agency
• Job Corp
• National Visiting Educators
• Veterans

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Educational Support

• Vocational English as a Second Language
• GED preparation
• Refresher math, reading, and writing courses

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Offender Reentry Program

• Tuesday afternoons
• All released into Sacramento County in previous
  week

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Offender Reentry Program

• Housing
• Jobs
• Drug and alcohol counseling
• Picture IDs

• Drivers Licenses
• Food Banks
• Job skills training

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Offender Reentry ProgramPartners

• Parole Officers
• California Highway Patrol
• Employment Development Department
• Department of Motor Vehicles

• California health and Human Services
• One Stop Center
• Skills and Business Education Center
• Sacramento Food Bank

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Offender Reentry ProgramRecidivism Rate

• 38 Sacramento County rate compared to 50
  Statewide rate
• 7 rate if parolee completes job training program

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Peter F. Drucker Non-Profit Innovation Award1998

• Truck Driver Training
• Exemplary collaboration with other public and
  private organizations

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Truck Driver Training

• Fork lift operations
• Warehousing
• Truck driving skills
• PIA contract to provide driving experience

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STEP Case Management

• Mentoring
• Counseling
• Tutoring
• Individual Employment Plans
• Employment preparation and assistance

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Supplemental funding

• Refugee assistance
• Worksite literacy
• State of the art equipment
• Support to instructional program
• Apprenticeship funds
• WIA

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Invitation to visit

• Students develop new skills and self esteem
• Parents
• Workers
• Community Members

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Invitation to visit

• Skills and Business Education Center
• 5451 Lemon Hill Avenue
• Sacramento, CA 95824
• Office of Adult, Career and Technical Preparation
• 916-433-2679