Can I Afford Career Services?

There are two factors to consider as you look at the cost of career services — value and cost. Value is measured in how these services help you to shape and then meet your life/work goals. Over and over, our clients tell us how much they have benefited from their Centerpoint experience. If you are concerned about spending the money on career services, consider the costs involved in not seeking assistance.

Most people view career services as an investment that’s paid back quickly in a variety of ways. Career services can improve satisfaction with your life and work as well as help you develop new skills. Most importantly, Centerpoint can show you a process for understanding and navigating change and transition that you can use over and over as you journey through life.

Special Financial Arrangements

As a nonprofit organization, it is Centerpoint’s goal to try and make career services available to everyone regardless of their financial situation. Frequently, the time when need you help with your career is just when you can least afford to pay. Our staff will work with you to create financial arrangements that will allow you to participate in the services you need. Some examples of possible financial arrangements include:

• Payment plans
• Volunteer opportunities to earn credit toward services
• Scholarship fund for individual counseling

Please contact our front office to discuss financial arrangements.

Scholarship Fund for Individual Career Counseling

In choosing individual career counseling, you have opted for a service which is highly personalized and focused. By the nature of this, costs need to be set at a different level than for group workshops. Our overall goal is that finances not be an obstacle if someone feels our services would benefit them. Towards that end we have outlined a scholarship scale based on total annual combined assets. The scale also shifts based on the number of dependents you have.

Our hope is that, once you are able, you will give back to Centerpoint’s scholarship fund so that we can continue to help clients, no matter their financial situation.