Indian Education

The Ventura County Indian Education Consortium is a Title VI federally funded program, with addition financial support from our partner districts, providing direct services to American Indian and Alaskan Native students in grades TK-12 in the following Ventura County School Districts and Charter Schools:

Conejo Valley Unified School District, Hueneme Elementary School District, Fillmore Unified School District, Moorpark Unified School District, Oak Park Unified School District, Ojai Unified School District, Oxnard School District, Oxnard Union High School District, Pleasant Valley School District, Rio School District, Simi Valley Unified School District, Ventura Unified School District (LEA), ACE Charter, CAPE Charter, MATES Charter, Vista Real Charter, and Ventura Charter.

Enrollment Forms

Enrollment Packet-Eng/Span

Your child may be eligible to enroll in the Title VI Indian Education Program of the VCIEC if you, your child or his/her grandparent are an enrolled member of an American Indian tribe, band or group or Alaskan Native tribe or corporation or if you, your child or a grandparent have a Certificate of Degree of Indian Blood (CDIB)..

To enroll, please click on the link above to print and complete the application or fill it digitally.

Return completed documents to your school's office or attach signed and saved enrollment forms and email to robin.jacobs@venturausd.org.

Help with Tribal Enrollment

Tribal Enrollment Process

Help with Tracing Ancestry

Trace Indian Ancestry

CDIB Form & Instructions

Calendar of School Site Lesson Visits

Indian Education teaching staff hold regular visits at most consortium partner district schools. School visits include grade appropriate lessons based on an annual theme and cover topics in the areas of Indian studies, counseling, career and college awareness, scholarship information and other resources for Native American students.

View when the teacher will be holding lessons on your campus this school year:

School SIte Visit Schedule

February 25 Workshop

Feb. 25 Drum Workshop - VUSD, OUSD, FUSD

February 26 Workshop

March 11 Workshop

Mar. 11 Drum Workshop - SVUSD, CVUSD, MUSD, OPUSD

Enrolled HS students can earn one college credit from CLU, working with a faculty member, to complete a project on a topic related to Native American Studies or their Native heritage at no cost.
Attend our College Night Meeting on Sept. 25th, 2024 at Pacifica High School in Oxnard for more information
Registration Window: Sept. 2 - September 30, 2024
The course begins October 7, and closes November 26, 2024.

Program Brochure

Application Portal

2024 College Night

College Night Presentations
VCIEC Presentation
UCSB Presentation
VCCD Presentation
CLU Presentation

2024-2025 Parent Committee Members

		Natalie Albertson	Chairperson parent member

		Sylvia Soholt	Vice-Chairperson parent member

		Pam Cwiklo	Secretary community member

		Amy Muhopadhyay	parent member
		Cherie Calles	parent member
		Connor Barwick	student member
		Elena Rios	community member
		Julie Tumamait	tribal advisor member
		Kian Soholt	student member
		Rachel Ernst	parent member
		Scott Bankert	teacher member
		Sommer Barwick	parent member
		Sonny Flores	family member
		Velia Soto	teacher member

Coordinator: Robin Jacobs robin.jacobs@venturausd.org
Teacher:
Teacher: Jennifer Weir jenniferWeir@venturausd.org
Teacher:
Teacher: Ana Becerra anamarie.becerra @venturausd.org
Counselor: Lyle Nelson lyle.nelson@venturausd.org
Office Assistant: Luciana Da Silva Luciana.DaSilva@venturausd.org

telephone: (805) 641-5000 ext: 1193

address: 255 W. Stanley Avenue suite 100, Ventura CA 93001

Zoom Recording
Indian Ed Slides
U.C.L.A. Slides
S.C.A.I.R. SLIDES
L.M.U. Slides
C.L.U. Slides