East Hartford, CT 06118
Tel 860.528.4111
Toll Free 800.889.3282
Associate in Human Services
Make a Difference in Your Life and the Lives of Others!
The field of human services offers a wide variety of career opportunities for people who have a strong desire to help others. Our Human Services Program is designed to provide you with an education that will enable you to do just that.
As a professional working in this field, you will utilize a broad range of skills that will enable you to help others to meet basic human needs, enhance their quality of life and address issues pertaining to human growth and development. Human service professionals promote positive change in individuals, families and communities and, by providing services and enhancing opportunities, assist them in overcoming challenges and barriers that they face in their daily lives. Click here to view career opportunities available in the human services field.
At Goodwin College we believe our program is the best for several reasons:
A Relevant and Comprehensive Program
- Based on national standards for human service education
- It provides students with the skills to succeed in a wide variety of high demand human service careers
- Our curricula reflect local employer expectations for new employees
Exceptional Faculty Members
- All have extensive experience in human service careers
- All have strong connections to the local human service community
- All have received superior evaluations from their students
- All are highly committed to the education of their students
Extensive connections to the human service community
- We are engaged with more than 500 local human service organizations
- Employers call us often for our interns and graduates
- Exciting internship opportunities are available – you will participate in an internship at a local human service organization. Our internships frequently lead to jobs!
A Great Learning Environment
- Flexible day, evening, weekend, and online classes
- Small class sizes and personal attention
- Job placement assistance
- Personal Financial Aid advisors
- A degree from a well-respected program
- A brand new campus on the banks of the Connecticut River
To request more information, discuss the wide variety of in-demand human service careers or to arrange a visit to our new campus:
Call Jack Matthews, Program Director at 1-800-889-3282
or email: jmatthews@goodwin.edu
Last Modified: 1/23/2012