NDCC is celebrating 41 years of service to central Ohioans. During that 41 year period, more than 70,000 lives have been touched. Nearly 3,000 of these individuals are graduates of the New Directions Program. When the Center was established in 1980, the New Directions Program was its first program, and remains the most intensive core program today.

The women graduates of the New Directions Program have achieved outstanding results. An average of these results is as follows:

• 100% of all program graduates completed a career plan.
• An average of more than 80% have dropped all or part of public assistance after program completion.
• An average of more than 80% of program graduates realized an increase in annual income after program completion.
• An average of 70% attained economic self-sufficiency after program completion.
• Graduates of the New Directions Program have consistently shown earnings that are substantially more than the minimum wage and exceed the average earnings of graduates from other agency’s employment programs. For example, the average earnings for program graduates from the most recent year-end survey was $12.37/hr. compared to $9.78 average for all employment programs funded by United Way of Central Ohio .