Mission
The mission of The Career Counseling Center is to enable individuals
to identify and explore life choices and to empower them to attain
their career goals through counseling, education, training, and
support. Our programs, designed with a particular focus on women,
serve women and men of diverse backgrounds, ages, and abilities
from all of Connecticut.
Background
The Career Counseling Center is a community service of the University
of Hartford. Since its founding in 1968, the Center has provided
high quality programs and services that meet the career development,
educational and training needs of individuals, organizations,
and employers throughout Connecticut.
The Career Counseling Center's evolution and growth during the
past 38 years demonstrate the Center's unique ability to respond
to the major social, political and economic changes experienced
by both women and men. The Center has championed women's rights
to non-traditional employment through training programs in many
male-dominated fields and is the first center providing career
services in Connecticut and the first Entrepreneurial Center for
Women in Connecticut. It also founded the first ABA-approved legal
assistant training program in Connecticut and provided many other
training programs to meet employers' needs for qualified employees.
Today, the Center provides a wide array of services and programs
and every year touches the lives of 3,000 people of all ages,
economic social and educational backgrounds. Program participants
come from all over Connecticut, Southern Massachusetts and other
nearby states.
Many of the Career Counseling Center's programs have a long and
successful history. Career counseling services established the
Center as the place in the Greater Hartford region for
help with career/life planning. Other programs of long duration
include the Entrepreneurial Center for people starting businesses,
and Project CRECER, a summer program for high school girls.
New programs are developed in response to the needs of the community.
The Child Care Assistant Training Program prepares entry level
child care workers. The After School Computer Academy, an outgrowth
of Project Crecer, expands young girls' computer skills and provides
them with internships at area organizations. The Continuing and
Professional Education Department provides continuing education
for professionals in many fields including construction, law,
youth practitioners and real estate.
History
The Career Counseling Center's thirty-eight year history parallels
major social, political and economic changes experienced by both
women and men between 1968 and the present. We have long been
an innovator in economic & workforce development, career counseling,
professional education and job training.
In 1968, the women who founded The Career Counseling Center understood
the rapidly shifting economic forces of the late sixties and listened
to the concerns of students and women around the nation. They
designed the Center's structure to be flexible so that we could
grow and change to respond to the changing needs of adults in
our changing economy and workforce.
Celebrating 38 years serving both
women and men with career counseling, continuing education &
job training!
The Center for Professional Development
University of Hartford
50 Elizabeth Street
Hartford, CT 06105
860-768-5619
ccchcw@hartford.edu
