Adult education services
Build the skills, knowledge, credentials, and confidence to move forward. Our adult programs support professional growth, financial capability, entrepreneurship, career navigation, digital readiness, and pathways into transportation.
Introduction
Drive Forward Academy helps adults build practical skills and gain resources they can put to use in their careers, businesses, and everyday lives.
Whether you're preparing for a new career, strengthening your professional skills, pursuing a credential, or building a business, our programs are designed to help you move forward with greater preparation and direction.
We believe education should do more than teach a skill. It should prepare people to recognize opportunities, make informed decisions, build meaningful connections, and take their next step with purpose.
Our approach
Assess → Prepare → Train → Connect → Advance
Identify your goals and the skills, knowledge, or training that can help you reach them.
Develop the tools, knowledge, and professional skills needed to move forward.
Gain relevant skills through focused, practical learning and application.
Build relationships within your cohort, engage with professionals, and learn to recognize and navigate opportunities around you.
Leave with stronger skills, tangible resources, expanded connections, and clarity about your next steps.
Adult programs
Select an individual course or combine offerings to create a broader learning experience based on your goals.
Build a Career That Moves You Forward
Prepare for opportunities in transportation and logistics while understanding the training, credentials, and pathways available within the industry. For participants pursuing commercial driving, our training supports the journey from CDL permit preparation through Class A or Class B commercial driver training.
The CDL Pathway
Permit Preparation → CDL Training → Licensing → Next Step
Build the Tools to Compete and Advance
Strengthen professional communication, interviewing, workplace readiness, conflict resolution, networking, and relationship-building. Participants develop tangible career assets including resumes, professional portfolios, interview preparation materials, and networking strategies that position them to pursue and navigate opportunities.
Build a Stronger Financial Foundation
Develop practical knowledge in budgeting, banking, credit, saving, responsible borrowing, taxes, insurance, and long-term financial planning. Our curriculum also addresses the financial realities of living and working in New York City, connecting financial concepts to housing, transportation, cost of living, and everyday decision-making.
Build With Purpose
Turn an idea into a viable business through practical instruction in business planning, customer development, marketing, operations, financial planning, networking, and growth. Participants are challenged to think like innovators, build valuable relationships, and develop solutions to real problems — leaving with a solid business plan and roadmap for moving forward.
Create a Plan for What's Next
Identify your strengths, explore career pathways, understand qualifications and compensation, recognize transferable skills, and learn how to evaluate opportunities. Participants work toward a personal career roadmap with clear goals and actionable next steps.
Build the Digital Skills Today's Workplace Demands
Develop practical skills using the digital tools that power today's workplace, including documents, spreadsheets, presentations, professional communication, virtual collaboration, file management, data fundamentals, and cybersecurity awareness.
Participants gain hands-on experience using technology to work more efficiently, communicate professionally, solve problems, and adapt to changing workplace demands.
Flexible programming
Every organization, cohort, and learning goal is different. Our programs can be delivered at varying levels of depth and engagement.
Focused, interactive sessions centered on a specific skill or topic.
Immersive sessions that combine instruction, discussion, and practical application.
Multi-session experiences designed for deeper learning, skill development, and tangible outcomes.
Combine courses and topics to create programming around the needs of your organization or cohort.
For organizations
We partner with workforce organizations, community-based organizations, employers, and other institutions to deliver practical education for the people they serve.
Choose a course, select the delivery format, combine multiple offerings, or work with us to develop programming around your goals.
Ready when you are.
