Join the Grassroots Movement!
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 1998, 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.
1998
In 1998, 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
Single Mom of 5 Graduates Pre Apprenticeship
Graduate Shamika Mishaw shared with us her experience of getting a manufacturing job with no experience through GTEC’s pre apprenticeship program. “The Golden Triangle Empowerment Center (GTEC) is the best! I always want to better myself. I told my kids, Mama’s going...
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...