The Center for Creative Aging at Harold Washington College

Goals Statement

The immediate goals of the Center are:

To become an active, productive partner with the Chicago Department of Aging, the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, and with other organizations and institutions also committed to providing Chicagoans fifty and older with instruction, activities, and connections that:
- encourage self-knowledge and personal growth
- assist identification and development of untapped gifts
- broaden interests and increase knowledge
- provide training and access to opportunities for meaningful paid and volunteer work and for service to the community
In collaboration with the Harold Washington College (HWC) Department of Applied Sciences' program in Gerontology, to offer transfer credit, continuing education credit, and non-credit programs to Center members, students of HWC and other Chicago colleges, and to the interested public. All programs will be focused on a multi-cultural, humanistic approach to the study of aging and are based on the principle that the second half of life has important meaning for the individual and the community.
To host an annual spring lecture series or conference on topics of particular interest to the populations to be served by the HWC Center for Creative Aging and the Gerontology Program using Harold Washington College faculty and local and nationally known speakers.