Apprenticeships in the Capital Region
Why Choose an Apprenticeship?
Apprenticeships provide hands-on training and a clear path to a rewarding career. In the Capital Region, these programs are tailored to meet the needs of industries like healthcare, technology, and construction, helping participants build skills and connections.
Benefits of Apprenticeships
- Earn a wage while learning valuable skills.
- Gain industry-recognized credentials.
- Work alongside experienced professionals.
- Access pathways to long-term career growth.
Innovative Programs
Valley Vision works to connect apprenticeships in the Capital Region through partnerships with local employers and educators. Explore their initiatives to see how they’re shaping the future of work.
Hear from Apprenticeship Programs
Watch this video to learn how apprenticeships are transforming lives in the Capital Region.
Visual Overview
This guide highlights key facts about apprenticeships in California.
Additional Resources
Reconnecting NorCal Summit – June 27, 2025
On June 27th, Valley Vision and UC Davis co-hosted a Northern California convening of community advocates engaged in transportation and equity projects at the UC Davis Conference Center. At the Reconnecting NorCal Summit, participants addressed the past and recurring impacts of adverse and inequitable transportation and land use planning, and how those planning practices are continuing to impact disinvested communities and communities of color. At the convening, participants had the opportunity to assist UC Davis and their UC research partners in their work to evaluate specifically how projects and practices are addressing the harms caused by inequitable transportation and land use planning, and informed UC researchers of best practices and policy recommendations for redressing these harms with a restorative Justice lens.
The final presentation slide is included below:
Many thanks to the community advocates who joined us in these discussions! Additionally, thank you to Professor Jesus Barajas PhD of UC Davis for collaborating with us to ensure diverse communities and diverse voices were represented and elevated at the convening!
UC Project Purpose: The Restorative and Racial Justice in Reconnecting Communities project seeks to use a restorative justice lens to evaluate specifically how projects and practices are addressing the harms caused by inequitable land use and transportation planning. The Northern California convening is a part of this project, and brought together community advocates to help meet the project goal.
The UC project and research efforts will wrap-up at the end of this year in December 2025, and a report of research findings will be published and available for public access and review early next year in 2026. *Please check back early next year for a link to the report. Thank you!
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Residents Guide Air Pollution Monitoring in South Sacramento – Statewide Mobile Monitoring Initiative
About the Statewide Mobile Monitoring Initiative (SMMI)
The Statewide Mobile Monitoring Initiative, led by the California Air Resources Board (CARB) and Aclima, is an effort to monitor air quality in 64 Consistently Nominated AB 617 Communities using sensor-equipped vehicles, called Aclima Platforms.
Community concerns and feedback will help guide where air quality monitoring occurs and will help shape the Community Air Monitoring Plan (CAMP), putting communities in a better position to develop strategies for emissions reduction.
With the help of community members and community organizations, Aclima will draft Community Air Monitoring Plans (CAMP) for each of the communities: Florin, Meadowview, and Oak Park/Fruitridge.
On April 16, 2025, Valley Vision hosted the first of two air quality community feedback meetings, part of the Statewide Mobile Monitoring Initiative (SMMI) funded by California Climate Investments. Held at the Pannell Meadowview Community Center, the event brought together community members living and working in Florin, Meadowview, and Oak Park/Fruitridge, to share air quality concerns and help shape the Community Air Monitoring Plans. Thank you to all who participated!
The meeting presentation is available below in three languages, and key activities included:
- Project Overview and Welcome remarks from Councilmember Mai Vang
- Mapping activity to identify air quality concerns in Florin, Meadowview, and Oak Park/Fruitridge
- Majority vote decision by attendees to define the monitoring boundaries for all three communities
- Next steps on how to stay involved in the project
Valley Vision hosted a second air quality community feedback meeting for the Statewide Mobile Monitoring Initiative (SMMI) on May 1, 2025 at the Oak Park Community Center. This event brought together community members living and working in Florin, Meadowview, and Oak Park/Fruitridge, to review and make changes to the Draft Community Air Monitoring Plan (CAMP) and help decide on neighborhood boundaries and where to monitor pollution levels for Florin, Meadowview, and Oak Park/Fruitridge. Thank you to everyone who joined us!
The meeting presentation is available below in three languages, and key activities included:
- Project Overview and Welcome remarks from the Oak Park Neighborhood Association
- Recap Meeting #1 and Review the Draft Community Air Monitoring Plan
- Majority vote decision by attendees to decide on monitoring boundaries and targeted monitoring locations for all three communities
- Next steps on how to stay involved in the project
Meeting #3 will be hosted online by Aclima and CARB staff in May 2026. They will share the project results, answer questions, have community member share their experiences engaging with the project, and discuss possible next steps.
Community members can stay up to date with the project by visiting Aclima’s website at aclima.earth/ca-smmi
Project Timeline
For questions, contact Kathy Saechou at Valley Vision (kathy.saechou@valleyvision.org).
Residents Guide Air Pollution Monitoring in South Natomas – Statewide Mobile Monitoring Initiative
About the Statewide Mobile Monitoring Initiative (SMMI)
The Statewide Mobile Monitoring Initiative, led by the California Air Resources Board (CARB) and Aclima, is an effort to monitor air quality in 64 Consistently Nominated AB 617 Communities using sensor-equipped vehicles, called Aclima Platforms.
Community concerns and feedback will help guide where air quality monitoring occurs and will help shape the Community Air Monitoring Plan (CAMP), putting communities in a better position to develop strategies for emissions reduction.
With the help of community members and community organizations, Aclima will draft a Community Air Monitoring Plan (CAMP) for South Natomas.
On April 14, 2025, Valley Vision and Gardenland-Northgate Neighborhood Association (GNNA) hosted the first of two air quality community feedback meetings, part of the Statewide Mobile Monitoring Initiative (SMMI) funded by California Climate Investments. Thank you to GNNA for helping us coordinate a meaningful and engaging event! Thank you to everyone who joined us at the Stanford Settlement Neighborhood Center to share air pollution concerns and help shape the Community Air Monitoring Plan for South Natomas!
The meeting presentation is available below and key activities included:
- Project overview and welcome remarks by GNNA
- Mapping activity to identify air pollution concerns in South Natomas
- Majority vote decision by the community to define the monitoring boundary
- Next steps on how to stay involved in the project
Valley Vision and Gardenland-Northgate Neighborhood Association (GNNA) hosted a second air quality community feedback meeting for the Statewide Mobile Monitoring Initiative (SMMI) on April 29, 2025 at the Stanford Settlement Center. This event brought together community members living and working in South Natomas to review and make changes to the Draft Community Air Monitoring Plan (CAMP) and help decide on neighborhood boundaries and where to monitor pollution levels in South Natomas. Thank you to everyone who joined us!
The meeting presentation is available below in three languages, and key activities included:
- Project Overview and Welcome remarks from GNNA
- Recap Meeting #1 and Review the Draft Community Air Monitoring Plan
- Majority vote decision by attendees to decide on monitoring boundaries and targeted monitoring locations for South Natomas
- Next steps on how to stay involved in the project
Meeting #3 will be hosted online by Aclima and CARB staff in May 2026. They will share the project results, answer questions, have community members share their experiences engaging with the project, and discuss possible next steps.
Community members can stay up to date with the project by visiting Aclima’s website at aclima.earth/ca-smmi
Project Timeline
For questions, contact Kathy Saechou at Valley Vision (kathy.saechou@valleyvision.org).
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Building Resilience in the Capital Region (March 2025)
Valley Vision’s two collaboratives, Cleaner Air Partnership and Capital Region Climate Readiness Collaborative, hosted a regional workshop at the California Endowment Center where speakers from Yuba Water Agency, Sutter Roseville Medical Center, and Coldwell Banker shared the economic, public health, and environmental impacts of wildfires. With over 80 participants from the public and private sector, this event was a perfect opportunity to discuss how the region can establish cross-sector wildfire resilience through innovative partnerships and collaboration.
Resources including the presentation slides are listed below:
- Yuba Water Agency: Watershed Resilience and Forest Health
- U.S. Chamber of Commerce The Preparedness Payoff: Sacramento
- Report: Wildfire smoke impacts respiratory health more than fine particles from other sources: observational evidence from Southern California
Many thanks to the presenters:
- JoAnna Lessard, PhD Yuba Water Agency
- Dr. Vanessa Walker, Sutter Roseville Medical Center
- Erin Stumpf, Coldwell Banker
This event was hosted in collaboration with the Cleaner Air Partnership and the Capital Region Climate Readiness Collaborative.
USDA Southwest Regional Food Business Center Quarterly Webinar (January 2025)
Institutional Procurement: A Path Toward Food System Resilience
The USDA Southwest Regional Food Business Center’s recent quarterly webinar, “Institutional Procurement: A Path Toward Food System Resilience”, featured speakers from UC Santa Cruz Center for Agroecology, Health Care Without Harm, and Center for Good Food Purchasing. Speakers discussed their organizations role in the purchasing of local, sustainable foods in hospitals, universities, and other large institutional settings. Presentations focused on organizations’ role in implementing procurement criteria and scoring, such as Center for Good Food Purchasing Scoring System, addressing challenges through multi-stakeholder equitable collaboration with community partners, such as HCWH’s Anchors in Resilient Communities Initiative, and the importance of effective data tracking systems to provide institutions data as a value proposition.
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Air Quality and Public Health Events – Spanish & Vietnamese (September 2024)
Valley Vision, United Latinos and ClimatePlan co-hosted two educational community events on Wednesdays September 18th and 25th in South Sacramento, where more than 95 community members learned about vehicle emissions impacts to public health, and ways they can improve air quality.
Additionally, thank you to Teatro Nagual and Breathe California – Sacramento Region who contributed to two successful and impactful in-language events. Also, huge thanks to Laguardia Translations for providing interpretation services to Spanish and Vietnamese community members present at the events!
Presentation slides for both the Spanish and Vietnamese events are listed below:
- Learn more about the Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District’s Clean Cars 4 All Program, where income-qualified Sacramento residents can trade in their old vehicles and receive rebates for purchasing zero or near-zero emissions vehicles or electric bikes.
- Need help with your energy bill? Community Resource Project can help you through their Home Energy Assistance Program (HEAP).
These educational community events are a part of the Sacramento County Vehicle Emissions Project (VEP) funded by Sacramento County Department of Public Health and the State of California Department of Justice.
CAP Technical Advisory: Checking in on the 2025 Blueprint with SACOG (December 2024)
At the December 6th Cleaner Air Partnership Technical Advisory Committee (CAP TAC) meeting, SACOG staff shared updates on the 2025 Blueprint, methodologies they utilized for land use and transportation assumptions, and what’s next on the timeline for 2025.
Thank you to the generous contributors to the Cleaner Air Partnership: Sac Metro Air District, Teichert, SMUD, CEMEX, Yolo-Solano Air Quality Management District, Sutter Health, Sacramento Association of REALTORS®, Placer County Air Pollution Control District, PG&E, and the El Dorado County Air Quality Management District.
Additionally, thank you to SACOG Staff for the in-depth presentation:
- Hannah Tschudin, Outreach Coordinator – Government & Public Affairs
- Dov Kadin, Senior Planner – Planning and Programming
- Samuel Shelton, Senior Planner – Transportation
Presentation Slides:
Other related resources:
- Presentation: SACOG’s Travel Demand Model Presentation