Career Resources

To improve our communities in Connecticut through the dignity of work.

Through training and intensive individualized case management, we provide our clients (both Youth and Adults) opportunities for economic opportunity and family stability within our Connecticut Communities. We also provide services to local employers as well as training for clients with significant barriers to employment such as lack of successful work history, prior incarceration, and low education and engagement levels in order to ensure ROI for the employers, communities and the state.

For over 15 years, CRI has operated STRIVE CONNECTICUT which provides intensive attitudinal workplace preparation training within our State. For 30 years STRIVE National has shown exceptional job placement and retention rates for customers facing barriers to employment such as lack of successful work history, prior incarceration, and low education levels. STRIVE’s goals and objectives are clear: Enrollment, class attendance, graduation, and then job placement and retention. These goals are also carefully time-tested and known to increase long-term earnings prospects for graduates and the quality of life in surrounding communities.

Hartford STRIVE also targets an at-risk youth population through its Youth Leadership Academy program, which seeks to serve disconnected youth between the ages of 18 to 24 who are or were involved with the juvenile or adult justice system. Focusing on the development of
the job readiness and life skills necessary for young adults to become self-sufficient adults, the Youth Leadership Academy program includes case management services, family and educational support, career exploration, job readiness and life skills workshops, job placement, service learning activities, opportunities to earn industry-recognized credentials, legal support services, and six months of post-program follow-up services.

Career Resources fulfills our mission through training and employment that provides youth and adults with skill sets, personal development and learning opportunities needed to secure economic self-sufficiency. In 2020, CRI celebrates consistent results over 25 years serving communities within the State of Connecticut.

In 2020, CRI celebrates consistent results over 25 years serving communities within the State of Connecticut. One of our programs, STRIVE CONNECTICUT, has operated successfully for over fifteen years, and in conjunction with the mission of National STRIVE, its program model remains unmatched in terms of outcomes within the network of chapters. Other workforce development programs exist in Connecticut, but
none provide the unique employability skills training in conjunction with ongoing supportive services and follow-up case management provided by STRIVE CONNECTICUT.