The Career Center offers a comprehensive suite of online programs and services that help entertainment industry and performing arts professionals to identify and find sideline work and discover new careers outside the industry.

Get started by attending The Career Center Orientation (afternoon or evening) to enroll in the career services offered.

Attend How to Job Search During A Pandemic, Part 1* and Part 2. *Please note: Part 1 time listed in Pacific Time.

Additional workshops include Companion Care Info Session, LinkedIn: The Digital Network, and Creativity Doesn’t Age: Speaker Series for the 50+ Crowd.

Financial Wellness workshops and seminars increase your financial knowledge and help you learn the tools and skills to support lifelong financial health and stability.

Take Budgeting Nuts & Bolts to learn the basics of financial wellness.

Then attend our free sessions of Money Matters: Managing Debt & Credit and Money Matters: Investing Basics for Creative Professionals.

The Actors Fund offers personalized health insurance counseling and enrollment support, referrals to health care resources, and seminars on how to care for yourself.

The Friedman Health Center for the Performing Arts, our primary care office in New York City, is open for appointments. Conveniently located in Times Square, The Friedman Health Center offers primary and specialty care and accepts most insurance plans, including commercial insurances, several Marketplace/Exchange plans, Medicare and Workers’ Compensation. Free and unbiased health insurance enrollment and counseling are available as well. Call 212.930.7300 for an appointment.

Each month’s Health Insurance HQ provides an update on the health care landscape from the expert team at The Actors Fund’s Artists Health Insurance Resource Center. This month, learn how you can help release much needed money from the New York State Entertainment Industry COBRA Subsidy so it gets to those in need who have lost their union-sponsored health insurance.

If you have additional questions regarding how to get or stay insured, RSVP for Every Artist Insured: Getting and Keeping Affordable Health Insurance During COVID-19 and Welcome to Medicare.

The Actors Fund operates several affordable housing residences across the country, and also offers resources to help you learn more about affordable housing opportunities and other housing-related issues you may encounter

New York City has launched a NEW website for applying for affordable housing lotteries and re-rentals. If you had an account on the original NYC Housing Connect, your applicant profile will not be carried over to the new website and you will need to create a brand new profile to apply. Our Housing Connect 2.0 Tutorial will help applicants navigate the new system, understand changes to the process and show you how to set up a new profile. If you haven't already, we recommend that you participate in our Applying for Affordable Housing webinar as a prerequisite. We hope to make the transition from the original to the new NYC Housing Connect as easy as possible.

Additional online seminars include Apartment Hunting 101: Strategies for Finding Housing in NYC and Affordable Housing for Seniors.

Upcoming online support groups include Orientation for the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Course (Tuesday or Thursday), Self-Care to Give Care and the National Dancer Info Session.

You can also join a waitlist for the next cohort of the Support Group for Dancers.