Search: Student Support
Results
When to Keep Your Child Home from School
Guidance for Common Signs and Symptoms of Illness
Children should attend school every day and may attend school with mild or improving symptoms. This guidance, based on CDPH recommendations, will help you decide whether your child is too sick to attend school.
If your child has symptoms that prevent them from participating meaningfully in school please keep your child at home. Otherwise follow the symptom guidance below to decide whether they can attend school. A doctor’s note is generally not required to return to school.
General Education Home Hospital Instruction
The Sacramento City Unified School District Home Hospital Instruction Program provides on-going academic instruction to students with a TEMPORARY disability which makes school attendance impossible or inadvisable.
Sacramento Area Community Immunization Clinics
Sacramento’s Child Health & Disability Prevention Program (CHDP) provides Free or Low-Cost health exams & immunizations for uninsured and Medi-Cal children ages birth to 18 years: (916) 875-7151
Medical Exemptions
Under State law SB 277, effective January 1, 2016 parents may no longer cite personal beliefs to exempt their children from vaccines required for school. Most families will not be affected by the new law because their children have received all required vaccinations.
Personal beliefs exemptions on file for a child already attending child care will NO LONGER BE VALID when enrolling into kindergarten, including transitional kindergarten (Early Kinder).
Mental Health, Crisis Response and Suicide Prevention
A variety of mental health services are available to students experiencing social or emotional difficulties. With specially trained staff and a wide array of community mental health providers, Student Support and Health Services staff provide services directly to students and families.
Contact Homeless Education Services
We are here to serve you!
Ashley Powers
Clark, MS, MSW, PPSC
Homeless Education Services Program Coordinator (Homeless
Liaison)
(916)643-2450
Manuela
Murrillo
Clerk II, (916)643-2450
Thomas
McCready
School Social Worker (Team 1)
(916)752-4635
California Digital Vaccine Record
Parents and G​uardians! Did you know you can use the California Digital Vaccine Record portal to access your child’s immunization records? Request a digital copy of your child’s records for childcare or school at
Student Support and Health Services
Student Support and Health Services (SSHS) offers a wide range of social, emotional, and health resources to help students thrive. We promote attendance and a positive school climate by focusing on the whole child, providing critical support services and removing barriers to learning.
Our vision is to serve all students with compassion and care, ensuring families have equitable access to systems of support that promote hope, resilience, empowerment, physical & mental wellness, and educational success.