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 (Monday or Thursday session) to enroll in the career services offered. Once you've done that, you can enroll in workshops including Career Journey*.

Additional workshops include Spotlight On Dancers Across The Country: Moving Forward In 2021, The Virtual Creative Classroom Symposium* and Creativity Doesn't Age*.

*Time listed in Pacific Time

Financial Wellness online 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, proudly sponsored by Actors Federal Credit Union, to learn the basics of financial wellness.

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

You can also join us for Welcome to Medicare, Understanding AFL-CIO/ Union Plus Medicare Advantage Plans and Every Artist Insured: Getting Affordable Coverage in NY/NJ During COVID-19.

The Friedman Health Center for the Performing Arts, our primary and specialty care health center, is open for appointments. The Health Center accepts most insurance plans, including commercial insurances, several Marketplace/Exchange plans, Medicare and Workers’ Compensation. Call 212.930.7300 for an appointment.

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 (AHIRC). View previous Health Insurance HQs here.

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.

Our Housing Connect 2.0 Tutorial will help applicants navigate New York City’s latest housing lottery 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.

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

Upcoming online groups include Self-Care to Give Care, Black Entertainment Professionals Gathering*, Asian American and Pacific Islander Entertainment Professionals Gathering* and the National Dancer Info Session.

*Time listed in Pacific Time