Education

Second Chance Pell Pilot Program

 

Asnuntuck Community College

Programs:
Business Administration, Certificate Program
Human Services Management, Certificate Program
Advanced Manufacturing

Facilities:
Carl Robinson Correctional Institution
MacDougall – Walker Correctional Institution
Osborn Correctional Institution
Willard-Cybulski Correctional Institution

Contact:
Eileen Peltier, Dean of Workforce Development & Continuing Education
epeltier@acc.commnet.edu

 

Quinebaug Valley Community College

Programs:
Advanced Manufacturing, Certificate Program
Business Administration, Associate’s Degree

Facility:
Brooklyn Correctional Institution

Contact:
Alfred Williams, Dean of Academic & Student Affairs
awilliams@qvcc.commnet.edu

 

Three Rivers Community College

Programs:
Business Administration, Certificate Program (York)
Marketing, Certificate Program (Radgowski)
Environmental Health and Safety, Certificate Program (Radgowski)

Facilities:
York Correctional Institution
Corrigan-Radgowski Correctional Center

Contact:
Marjorie Valentin, Director of Workforce Development
mvalentin@trcc.commnet.edu

 

Wesleyan University and Middlesex Community College Partnership

Program:
General Studies, Associate’s Degree

Facilities:
Cheshire Correctional Institution
York Correctional Institution

Contacts:
Kristen Inglis, Academic Manager, Center for Prison Education Program, Wesleyan University
kinglis@wesleyan.edu
Steven Minkler, Director of Academic Affairs at Middlesex CC
sminkler@mxcc.commnet.edu

 

Quinnipiac University

Currently focus on education in prison, but is planning to start a class for those reentering in the future.

Contact:
Stephen.mcguinn@quinnipiac.edu
Quprisonproject.org

 

Trinity College

Programs:
Trinity Prison Seminar Series and prison education outreach efforts
Individualized degree programs

Contact:
Roberta Rogers
(860) 297- 2150
Roberta.rogers@trincoll.edu

 

 

Second Chance Pell Grant Privately Funded Colleges and Universities

 

Quinnipiac University

Program:
Inside-Out College Class – Garner Correctional Institution
Individual class provided each fall – York Correctional Institution

Contact:
Stephen McGuinn, Assistant Professor of Sociology
stephen.mcguinn@quinnipiac.edu
Linda Meyer, Professor of Law
linda.meyer@quinnipiac.edu

 

Trinity College:

Program:
Individual class provided each spring – York Correctional Institution

Contact:
Joseph Lea, Visiting Lecturer in Human Rights
joe.lea09@gmail.com

 

CONNTAC

Programs include the following: How to succeed in college, life after the GED, adults going to college, 11 Ways to Maximize your Scholarship search, career interest decision-making, rehabilitating yourself from a defaulted student loan, credit card smarts and Incarcerated/formerly incarcerated pre-employment workshop series. Admission application fee waivers, financial aid and academic overviews, FAFSA assistance, assistance in defaulted loan process, scholarship searches, career planning and college referrals and financial literacy planning. Also, award scholarships who are the first in their families to pursue a postsecondary education.

The application process includes: meeting with a EOC Counselor, income verification, completing an application for assistance form that is signed and returned.

10 locations at community colleges in CT. The main office is in Meriden, CT.

Contact:
Cecilia Nugent, Executive Program Director
Conntac, Inc., Meriden, CT at 203-634-7669
cnugent@conntacinc.org
www.conntacinc.org

 

The Pride Program-Reentry Survivors

Program:
Entrepreneurship course for formally incarcerated. 10-week course, once a week for 2.5 hours. Taught in Bridgeport, New Haven, Waterbury, Hartford, and Enfield.

Contact:
theprideprogram@gmail.com
203-767-4090
reentrysurvivors.com

 

Yale University

Program:
Eli Whitney Program
The Yale Prison Education Initiative at Dwight Hall

Contact:
ypei@dwighthall.org

 

Emerge

“Emerge Connecticut, Inc. Is a social enterprise that helps the formerly incarcerated make a successful return to their communities by providing employment services, literacy and numeracy tutoring, counseling, a support system, and other services. EMERGE crewmembers are offered paid, part-time training in construction, landscaping and property management while also engaging  an array of unpaid program components designed to promote behavioral change. This combination of on-the-job training program and services has proven successful with New Havens re-reentry population since July of 2011”.
www.emergect.net

 

Health Justice Lab

Transitions clinic that provides healthcare education and careers to formerly incarcerated individuals.
Transitions Clinic- New Haven at Yale, Jerry Smart (203) 850-2449
Transitions Clinic- New Haven at Cornell Scott, Monya Harris (203) 850-2449
Transitions Clinic- Bridgeport, Latoya Benton (203) 907-8141
www.Healthjusticelab.org

 

Move Up A Partnership for Adult Learning

“The challenge of poverty is multidimensional. It encompasses literacy, education, skills training, jobs, housing, transportation, and other factors. MoveUp exists to bring institutions, organizations, and individuals together, to offer adult literacy and skills training and create innovative solutions to poverty in the Greater Hartford area.”
info@moveupct.org
(860) 899-3469
www.moveupct.org

 

University of New Haven

www.newhaven.edu/admissions/undergraduate/
1-800-342-5864

 

Wesleyan Center for Prison Education

222 Church Street
Middletown, CT 06459
www.wesleyan.edu/cpe
cpe@wesleyan.edu
(860) 685-2906

 

Education Services

Transcripts and Diplomas, Contact Information for Unified School District #1
https://portal.ct.gov/DOC/Org/Education-Services

 

Branford Hall

Professional Education center in Branford, and Southington CT.
https://www.branfordhall.edu/

 

Career Resource & Adult Ed/GED

Careerresources.org

 

 

Vocational Careers

American Foundation for the Blind, Braille

Cosmetology/Barbering
Connecticut Dept. of Public Health – Cosmetology & Licensing

Contact:
410 Capitol Ave., MS #13PHO
P.O. Box 340308
Hartford, CT 06134-0308
Phone Number: 860-509-7603 x6
Fax Number: 860-509-8457
E-mail Address: dph.hairdresserteam@ct.gov