Early Learning Programs

Raising Quality Together (RQT) Sacramento County's Quality Improvement System

Raising Quality Together (RQT), Sacramento County’s Quality Improvement System, works closely with early learning and care programs, providers, and early educators to support their commitment to quality, improvement, and growth.

California Preschool Instruction Network (CPIN)

The California Preschool Instructional Network (CPIN) is funded by the California Department of Social Services, Child Care and Development Division and has provided high-quality professional learning, technical assistance, and support to California’s preschool program administrators and teachers through its statewide network since 2004.  

Early Head Start (EHS) Home Based

Early Head Start Home-Based services are provided to expectant parents and families with children ages birth to 3 from diverse cultural backgrounds and who speak different languages. Early Head Start Educators provide weekly visits to provide resources and strategies for families. 

Building Mindful Early Care & Learning (PBM)

Early Learning PBM is designed to enhance the quality of early care and education provided in licensed, private child care centers and family child care homes serving children from birth to age 5.

Help Me Grow Sacramento County

Help Me Grow Sacramento County provides families with outreach and support to increase their awareness of developmental milestones and connect them to resources and services for their child’s optimal development. Serving families with children birth through five residing in Sacramento County.

Sacramento Consortium for Empowering Early Educators (SacE3) Program

SacE3 supports early educators in advancing their careers through professional learning, stipends for college course units, acquiring a BA in Child and Adolescent Development, and participating in an internship program to teach TK.

Sacramento County Local Child Care and Development Planning Council (LPC)

The primary mission of the LPCs is to plan for child care and development services based on the needs of families in the local community. LPCs are intended to serve as a forum to address the child care needs of all families in the community for all types of child care, both subsidized and non-subsidized. 

Sacramento County Workforce Pathways Grant (WPG) Stipend Program

WPG supports early educators, providers, and caregivers through professional growth stipends to complete professional learning hours and degree-pathway college units. WPG also supports new family child care providers by reimbursing the cost of the initial Licensing fee and initial Health & Safety Training. 

UPK Planning and Implementation 

We support districts and charters in the implementation of a high-quality learning experience the year prior to kindergarten. Educators and leaders in PK, TK, and expanded learning can find access to professional learning and technical assistance/support.

Sacramento UPK Collaborative 

The UPK Collaborative is a cross-sector group of early learning and care partners from a wide variety of settings invited to connect, share expertise, and provide the highest quality programs to our youngest learners.

UPK Mixed Delivery Planning

The Local Planning Council created a diverse workgroup, lead by SCOE Early Learning leaders and consisting of broad representation of the early learning and care community, to develop a plan supporting a mixed-delivery system in Sacramento.

Inclusive Early Education Expansion Program (IEEEP)

The IEEEP funding for local and statewide implementation are focused on increasing inclusive settings for preschool students with an emphasis on students with exceptional needs as well as improving the knowledge and practices of service provider, families and educators through professional learning experiences.