TOPCTA – Impact
Uplifting Our Underserved Communities One Family At A Time
“Tools for Learning, Skills for Living”
Our Impact
With over 23 years of leadership, practical ‘boots-on-the-ground’ experience, and grassroots achievements in workforce development in the most challenged Texas communities, we’ve trained over 5,000 people and provided successful job placement assistance to over 70% with an 80% retention rate for our graduate hires.
23+
Years of Leadership
5,000+
Trained Candidates
70%
Job Placement
80%
Retention Rate
3+
Career Tracks
7+
Locations Worldwide
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Our Mission
To solve the most pressing education, and career/jobs development issues in our most challenged and underserved communities. Through our Public-Private Partnerships with our team of best practice organizations, we seek to provide Career, Technical, and Adult Education learning and personal enrichment, life skills, and relevant job skills and placement opportunities that lead to cognitive change, personal resilience, job success, and improved quality of life for our most vulnerable families in Texas.
Our Purpose
To provide waypoints at every step of the journey for people with barriers to employment, and those seeking upward mobility to ultimately obtain meaningful, high-income jobs that lead to fulfilling careers. These key turns, guideposts, and symbiotic support systems would equip learners with the confidence, signals, and tools to inspire others continuously through their education, dreaming, and development. With a laser-like focus we have begun the work to cultivate and fuse the local, national, and international resources and intelligence required to develop and implement a new best practice for sustainable community upliftment.
We would like you to join in our collaborative journey.
Contact Us
Digital Workforce Academy
2209 Rosewood Ave #204
Austin, TX 78702
P: 409-982-0522
info @ digitalworkforceacademy.org
Fax: 409-982-0523
Where we started
Since 1999, our core mission has been to provide vocational and life skills training and job placement for unemployed and underemployed individuals living in the underserved communities. We have worked with technology, industrial EPC contractors and maintenance contractors, securing jobs including: pipefitter helper, electrical helper, ironworker helper, carpenter helper, boilermaker helper, insulators, scaffold builders, and others.
1999
In 1999, we started our first program in East Austin in the technology industries with Oracle, Microsoft, Lucent and Cisco.
2007
In 2007, Melvin White gathers a team with a mission to uplift local underserved communities by providing Pre-Apprenticeship training to fill Industry local commitments. We work with our partners to customize training in their industry to meet their particular labor force needs.
2024
We receive grants to bring our systems and methodology to underserved communities world-wide and help them also establish strategic partnerships locally.
Our Success Stories
How the Pre Apprenticeship Program Works for Job Seekers
Welcome Job Seeker! This is a brief introduction on how our pre apprenticeship program for local hires for manufacturing jobs with no experience works from your side. We train individuals with no experience to get industrial apprenticeships from underserved...
How the Pre Apprenticeship Program Works for Employer Partners
Welcome prospective Employer Partner. This is a brief introduction on how our pre apprenticeship program for local hires for manufacturing jobs with no experience works from your side. The Registered Apprentice Program or RAP is a program set up by the US Department...
DWA Partners with Texas Workforce Commission
DWA partners with Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) to provide free pre apprenticeships to train NCCER industrial Skill sets to Port Arthur residents for industry job with no experience that will be funded by TWC funds and Port Arthur Industrial partners. We look...
DWA selected for CarbonSAFE Offshore grant
DWA was selected as a recipient of CarbonSAFE Offshore grant to help fund our free pre apprenticeship program for industry job with no experience. See Fossil Energy and Carbon Management press release here> We look forward to bringing our proven pre apprenticeship...
HyVelocity Hub and DWA selected as Regional Clean Hydrogen Hub
We are excited to share that DWA and the HyVelocity Hub has been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy as one of the Regional Clean Hydrogen Hubs with a potential award of up to $1.2 billion in federal funding. White House Press Release here> Through close...