Danville, Virginia’s workforce training program has an accelerated timeline, which is ideal for adult students who want to learn a new career.

Accelerated Training in Defense Manufacturing program, or “ATDM,” a program that was first conceived in 2018 and started in June 2021, when the United States Department of Defense (DoD) partnered with the strategic consulting firm Spectrum Group on an advanced-workforce-development pilot program.

Within ATDM, a unique phenomenon has taken root and become one of the program’s defining traits: Most of the program’s graduating classes have included Afghan refugees, many of whom escaped their country as it fell to the Taliban in mid-August 2021.

https://www.fastcompany.com/91174064/danville-virginia-workforce-training-afghan-refugees

 

Actually rewarding someone that worked alongside the US Military instead of deserting them……