SETA Directors

Kathy Kossick — Executive Director
Sacramento Employment and Training Agency (SETA)

(916) 263-3800  Kathy@delpaso.seta.net

Kathy Kossick has seen the Sacramento Employment and Training Agency (SETA) grow from a $16 million budget in 1984, when she became the Chief Fiscal Officer, to a current budget of $71 million. She became the Executive Director in 1997. Kathy has advocated for leveraging community resources both internally and externally. SETA has been an active partner in the Capital Area Investment Zone, which developed a seven county, 23-site One Stop Career Center system. She also serves on the Sacramento Workforce Investment Board and is an active board member on the Sacramento County First 5 Commission. Under her tenure, SETA has received a workforce partnership award from the National Association of Workforce Boards and the National Hammer award from the National Partnership for Reinventing Government.

Robin Purdy — Deputy Director
Workforce Development SETA/Sacramento Works, Inc.

(916) 263-3800  Robin@delpaso.seta.net

Robin Purdy is the Deputy Director of Workforce Development for the Sacramento Employment and Training Agency and Sacramento Works, Inc., the local workforce investment board. She oversees the planning and implementation of workforce development programs targeting job seekers and employers and creates community partnerships to strengthen the Sacramento Works One Stop Career Center system. She leads a team of dedicated workforce development professionals who provide training, education, social services and job placements services to over 43,000 youth, adults and dislocated workers per year. Robin has also served as a member of the Sacramento Transition Collaboration for Youth in Foster Care, the California Integrated Services Planning Team, the Children’s Report Card Steering Committee, and the California Joint Special Populations Advisory Committee, and was Director of the Sacramento Women’s Center’s and the Regional Leader for Wider Opportunities for Women, a national women’s public policy and advocacy organization.

Robin cares deeply about building a collaborative workforce development system that ensures self-sufficiency and upward mobility for job seekers and results in a highly skilled workforce to meet the hiring needs of local employers.

Maureen Dermott — Deputy Director
Children and Family Services, SETA Head Start

(916) 263-3804  Maureen@headstart.seta.net

Maureen Dermott joined SETA as the Sacramento County Head Start Deputy Director in October of 2006. She has direct fiscal and operational oversight of a $55 million budget serving some 6000+ children of low-income families with comprehensive, high quality early care and education services in some 118 locations, countywide.

Maureen comes to Head Start with a strong administrative and operational background in early care and education. Prior to this position, Maureen served as the CEO of a large not-for-profit, school readiness program in Orange County, Florida. With a $65 million budget, some 17,000+ children, ages birth-four years of age, were provided quality early care and education and universal pre-k services.

As a Region Manager for a major national child care provider, her career has also included operational oversight of 75 childcare facilities employing 1,300 teachers, located in Northern California, Nevada and Utah serving some 10,000 children ages infant-school age. And, she fondly recalls her first venture into the field of early care and education, as the founding Director of the first on-site, corporate sponsored, child care center at Walt Disney World in Florida.

Maureen has been a strong advocate for the early care and education community, throughout the years, serving on early care and education Boards, presenting at conferences, participating on panels and committees all structured to improve the quality of care and services to families. And, she is particularly committed to the professional development of early care educators.