The program provided a life-skills course and internet-based instruction designed to improve math and reading skills to the ninth-grade level. After completing the initial education, participants could enroll in occupational training in certificate courses, including courses in the administrative support, health care, and manufacturing fields. Participants began with a life-skills course that lasted 17 hours, progressed to occupational training courses that lasted between 2.5 and 16 weeks, and finished with 24 hours of career-readiness training. WTA Connect was aimed at adults who were low income and who had math and reading skills at the sixth- to eighth-grade level. This study took place in Des Moines, IA. This study was part of the Pathways for Advancing Careers and Education evaluation.
WTA Connect offered occupational training, academic advising, and employment services to adults who had low skills in order to prepare them for enrollment in the WTA.