Deep South Academy Amite

12/18/2025

09/15/2025

Important Update 🌟

Hey family & friends — I’ll be stepping back from Deep South Automotive Academy for the next few months. This time is needed to recharge, refocus, and prepare for the bigger vision God has placed on my heart. 🙏🏾✨

⚠️ Please Note: We are NOT closing business operations — the car wash, detailing, tinting, and other services will still be available. We are only pausing the school/training side of the Academy for now.

To our students, keep pushing forward and remember the skills and lessons you’ve learned — they will carry you far. 💡💪🏾

To our community leaders and supporters, thank you for standing with us, believing in our mission, and helping us make a difference. Your encouragement means everything. ❤️

This is not the end — just a pause. We’ll be back stronger, better, and ready to keep changing lives. 🚗🔥

Stay tuned for what’s next…

— Rickey Wilson, Director

05/24/2025

STORED EMOTIONS IN TODAY’S YOUTH: A SILENT STRUGGLE

Our kids are hurting but many don’t show it.

Behind the jokes, the headphones, the phones… are unspoken emotions: pain, fear, rejection, pressure, and anger.

They’re dealing with trauma, family drama, bullying, identity confusion, and pressure to be perfect but often suffer in silence.

Unreleased pain becomes buried pain. And buried pain becomes behavior.

At Deep South Automotive Academy, we do more than teach skills we listen, we mentor, and we care.

Because some kids don’t need punishment…
They need a place to heal.

Let’s be the reason they open up not shut down.



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At Deep South Academy, our mission is to make a positive impact on our community through teaching life skills. This program is a non-profit organization dedicated to training young men with a skill set in the automotive trade while providing guidance in life and instilling the value of a strong work...

04/22/2025

College vs. Trade: What’s the better path for our young men?
Let’s talk numbers—and real life.

4-Year College:
• $30K–$100K in cost
• 4 years before earning
• Most leave with debt
• Average salary: $55K–$70K
• 41% of grads work in jobs that don’t need a degree

Trade School / Skilled Work:
• $5K–$20K in cost
• 6 months to 2 years
• Start earning faster
• Average salary: $45K–$80K+
• High demand, hands-on, can’t be outsourced

The truth?
Our young men don’t need more debt.
They need direction.
They need purpose.
They need a trade.

That’s why I started Deep South Automotive Academy—to give them a skill, a future, and something real they can stand on.

Let’s stop pushing one path like it’s the only one.
Trades change lives too.

04/22/2025

04/19/2025

Next weekend is stacked with incredible artists! 🤩

Here’s who’s taking the stage at this year’s Italian Festival! 🇮🇹

This lineup is one you won’t want to miss! 🥁🎤

04/19/2025

When I started the Academy in 2010 I would never think that it would have grown the way it did now we in 2025 LETS GOOD DEEP SOUTH

02/20/2025

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On any given night, nearly 50,000 youth are incarcerated in facilities away from home in the United States. The juvenile justice system is meant to provide r...

02/15/2025

🏈 Hometown Hero Spotlight: DeVonta Smith! 🏈

Amite’s own DeVonta Smith is heading to the Super Bowl with the Philadelphia Eagles! 🎉 From Friday night lights at Amite High School to winning the Heisman Trophy and now shining on the biggest stage in football, Devonta continues to make our community proud.

Let’s show our support for our hometown hero as he chases Super Bowl glory! Drop a 💚 and a 🦅 in the comments if you’re cheering for Smitty!