The San Francisco Beacon Initiative has always brought a heaping amount of love and care to supporting Beacon leaders. As a backbone organization, we help Beacon community schools thrive through coaching, connecting and coordinating; coaching community school leaders, connecting those leaders to each other to build power, and coordinating learning and resources.

Beacon staff are critical to creating impactful programs for youth, family and communities. Yet our field struggles with staffing and retention. To address the challenges and opportunities in our workforce, we recently launched a committee of Beacon leaders, city agencies, education, and professional development providers that will spend the next 6 months designing an Expanded Learning/Youth Development Registered Apprenticeship Program for our network.