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
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