Skill Centers of America is the realization of a vision that began in 1986 when Keith Davis founded the organization. The embodiment of that vision encompasses SCOA as we see it today, and as it will be in the future: a network of schools and training centers that are designed to simply, "help people help themselves."

   So far, the vision includes two retail thrift stores operating on-the-job training programs, a vocational college with a main campus, a commercial printing operation that is also a training program of the college, and most recently, SCOA Children’s Center, a preschool for children ages two to kindergarten. SCOA is a special place, and the opening of the Children’s Center has magnified the mission of this organization.