Stronger Native American workforce systems, built to last.
NWTAC partners with Tribal Nations, Native organizations, and workforce programs to strengthen the systems that connect Native people to good jobs and lasting careers — through direct technical assistance, training, and shared learning.
Systems built by Native communities, for Native communities.
NWTAC strengthens Native American workforce systems through technical assistance, training, partnerships, and innovation. We work alongside Tribal workforce programs, TANF and WIOA grantees, and Native-serving organizations to build capacity that lasts well beyond any single grant cycle.
Every Tribal Nation carries its own history, economy, and priorities. Our role is to meet programs where they are — bringing tools, connections, and practical know-how that programs can shape to fit their own communities, not the other way around.
- 01 Technical Assistance
- 02 Training & Curriculum
- 03 Partnerships
- 04 Innovation
Eight areas of support, one connected system.
Workforce Planning
Set clear goals and build a roadmap that fits your program's capacity and community priorities.
Apprenticeship Development
Design and register apprenticeship programs that connect training directly to Tribal employers.
Grant Support
Navigate applications, reporting, and compliance for federal and Tribal workforce funding.
Curriculum Development
Build training materials grounded in your community's languages, values, and labor market.
Tribal Workforce Strategies
Develop long-term strategies that connect workforce development to strong, resilient Native Economic Ecosystems.
Evaluation
Measure what's working with data practices that respect Tribal sovereignty and inform decisions.
Professional Development
Grow staff skills through coaching, workshops, and credentialing pathways built for practitioners.
Peer Learning
Connect with other Tribal programs to share what works through cohorts, convenings, and networks.
Technical assistance that starts with listening.
Listen & Assess
We start by understanding your program's goals, constraints, and community context — not with a template.
Plan Together
We co-design a scope of work with your team, so the plan reflects priorities you actually set.
Deliver & Build Capacity
Our specialists deliver hands-on support — coaching your staff along the way, not working around them.
Sustain & Share
We help document what worked so your program — and others in the network — can build on it.
Partners across Indian Country.
Native Workforce Programs
Tribal, urban, rural, and community-based workforce programs building pathways to employment, careers, apprenticeships, and economic opportunity for Native people.
Native Employment & Family Programs
Tribal TANF, WIOA, employment, education, re-entry, youth, and family programs connecting Native people to work, training, and economic self-sufficiency.
Native-Serving Organizations
Native-led and Native-serving nonprofits, community organizations, intertribal organizations, educational partners, and workforce-development organizations.