All Sacramento ICO trips are arranged in partnership with local social service agencies and schools:

Breakthrough Sacramento is a year-round, tuition-free, college preparatory program for academically-motivated, ethnically diverse students from under-resourced Sacramento schools.  Sacramento ICO has been working with Breakthrough for more than ten years.

CASA Sacramento supports volunteer Court Appointed Special Advocates for children – trained community volunteers appointed by a judge to speak up for children in juvenile court.  CASA is our newest partner (since 2021), and our outings include both youths and their CASAs so they all get an opportunity to meet one another and socialize, while having fun in a natural outdoor setting. 

Grant Union High School GEO Environmental Science and Design Academy.  GEO's mission is to teach youth how to create healthy and sustainable communities.  Sacramento ICO has worked closely with GEO for more than ten years, and our annual fall outings to Point Reyes National Seashore are well-known to the students and are eagerly anticipated, with up to 50 participants in a school bus.

Mercy Housing California operates affordable, service-enriched housing for families, seniors, and people who have been homeless to help keep the most vulnerable in our communities stably housed.  Sacramento ICO has partnered with Mercy since 2015 to take youths on new experiences in the outdoors.

Project Lifelong is a local organization that uses skateboarding to reach youth and create opportunities to show them positive connections and lifestyles.  This is probably our most adventurous group, and we have worked with Lifelong since 2017 to do many exciting trips.

The Puente Project at Sacramento City College is a program whose mission is to increase the number of educationally underserved students who enroll in four-year colleges and universities, earn college degrees, and return to the community as mentors and leaders to future generations.  We have partnered with Puente since 2017, and this is our only partner that consists of almost all young adults.

St. John's Program for Real Change operates the largest residential program for formerly homeless women and children in the Sacramento region, and supports women in crisis and their children through a residential program developed to help them build a successful new life for themselves and their families.  Sacramento ICO has worked with St. John’s for more than ten years to take kids on outdoor adventures, including an annual trip to a pumpkin patch.