Skill Centers of America is a community organization. A community that bands together to help one another, can and will succeed at anything. The San Diego community has helped to build this organization, and every division of Skill Centers of America, while offering educational opportunities, also provides products and services back to the community.

     The citizens who have come to SCOA in search of a better quality of life, and through those in the community who have donated items to the thrift stores, made monetary donations, and corporate sponsorships, this organization has grown, and continues to build and expand as we prepare to meet the challenges of the next century.

     SCOA serves as a link between the people who need help and those in a position to help them. Every shopper in one of the thrift stores and every person who donates clothing or furniture, is helping another citizen through education and training. Every donation and corporate sponsorship becomes part of a network used throughout the organization, in the college, the stores, and the Children's Center.