Providing career counseling is at the heart of the organization's mission. We help dancers with the process of self-evaluation, guide their discovery of practical options, and motivate them to achieve their long-term goals. Created to provide dancers with an open-ended dialogue, career counseling helps define dancers' interests and skills.

Career Transition For Dancers offers individual counseling and group counseling that introduces dancers to useful skills and topics. We also have local and national outreach projects to engage dancers outside of our local offices.

Our Outreach Projects have a lasting impact on dancers. We take our career counseling services on the road to reach dancers who are unable to travel to our New York City, Los Angeles, or Chicago offices.

Career Transition For Dancers is the only organization in the nation that provides financial assistance specifically to help dancers' careers. The various programs within The Caroline H. Newhouse Scholarship Fund and The Sono Osato Scholarship Program for Graduate Studies provide assistance for dancers who are looking to earn undergraduate or graduate degrees, vocational certification, or the acquisition of new skills. The organization also provides seed money to entrepreneurial dancers to found new businesses, encouraging the community's vitality.

Sir Francis Bacon said "Knowledge is Power." He couldn't be more right in this day and age. Information is the key to the success of individuals striving to realize their life's goals. Just as dancers depend on their knowledge of technique to develop their talent as artists, they also need the right information to help navigate their life-long career moves. We provide resource centers in our New York and Los Angeles offices, equipped with a computer lab and a library stocked with career development literature, university guides and other relevant materials.

Visit our online resources section to browse a comprehensive list of resources outside of our organization.

You'll find workshops, seminars, special events and more in our comprehensive schedule.

Our National Networking Directory provides dancers with peer support and professional mentoring from former dancers who volunteer their knowledge, time, and experience to help the organization's current dancer-clients. These volunteers have gone into varied fields such as choreography, arts administration, design, education, medical and health professions, law, and marketing, to name only a few.

To receive a copy of the National Networking Directory, please email us at info@careertransition.org.