Career Resources

Career Resources is a workforce development organisation in Connecticut that helps people find and keep work, with a focus on people returning from incarceration. It runs a re-entry welcome center in Bridgeport and works under contract with the Connecticut Department of Corrections.

Products and services

• Employment placement and retention: job placement, retention services, training and mentorship.
• Occupational skills: training that helps job candidates earn credentials.
• Reentry services: wraparound support for people leaving incarceration, including job readiness training.
• Supportive services: resources for reintegration and economic self-sufficiency.
• Employer opportunities: links with employers for placements.

Customers and markets

It serves people returning from incarceration, system-impacted individuals and job candidates, and it reports partnerships across the state.

Key facts

• Office: Bridgeport Re-Entry Welcome Center.
• Contract: the Lucy Baney Family Reunification Center serves 20 women, five of them with their children.