SkillsUSA is the #1 workforce development organization for students. We empower students to become skilled professionals, career-ready leaders and responsible community members. SkillsUSA is America’s proud champion of the skilled trades. Our mission is to empower students to become skilled professionals, career-ready leaders and responsible community members.

The SkillsUSA Framework Supports a Balanced Program

The SkillsUSA Framework illustrates how students fulfill the mission of the organization “to empower members to become world-class workers, leaders and responsible American citizens.”

What it does

• Provides a common language for students to articulate what they gain from SkillsUSA participation to employers, school administrators, parents and other students
• Assesses student skill development along a learning continuum of awareness, demonstration and mastery
• Creates a vision for SkillsUSA programs at the local, state and national levels to ensure quality student-led experiences that build skills in all members

Why it works

• Empowers every student to achieve career success

• Delivers a skill set demanded by business and industry but lacking in many employees today
• Ensures that every student member receives a consistent and specific skill set

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