Students complete a year entrepreneurship-training program designed to teach youth about starting their own business. The goal of the program is the development of businesses owned and run by youth, the development of participant's employment readiness skills and the retention of students in school.
Students will identify business opportunities and develop business plans and will be strongly encouraged to start businesses in small partnerships either with other students or as sole proprietors.

Through technology training, entrepreneur training, mentoring and support, Youth Achieving Destiny has developed a teach perceptive, business literate citizens who instead of only looking for jobs, are aware of the possibility of creating new opportunities for themselves.