From start to finish – career exploration, college search, personal essay editing, application support – we help you build the confidence and skills you’ll need for your next step to college, grad school, or career.
Seminars
Our seminars and workshops are designed to help students, families, and organizations. We cover key topics: careers and STEM, application strategies, managing your timeline, stress reduction, writing skills, financial aid, scholarships, internship search, and more.
Consulting
Our clients are as diverse as the high-quality consulting services we offer. YCC’s developmental approach encourages self-direction, initiative, organization and planning, creativity, independence, and critical thinking skills.
Our Vision
Every person on earth is inspired toward lifelong learning and community enrichment.
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Our Mission
To empower and engage clients to reach their highest potential.
About Us
YCC offers excellence in educational consulting, personal coaching, seminars and thought leadership. We help students, mostly teens and young adults, discover their unique strengths and talents, explore career options and college majors, and develop the skills to lead them to personal fulfillment and career prosperity. We do this through a focus on “the self” as a key part in the larger world community. We encourage strong academics with a preference toward “engaged education” – active involvement in the learning process through hands-on coursework, internships, and employment.
Covid-19 Response:In an abundance of caution for our community, YCC currently offers services on a virtual basis.
Do you know who has the best job? Me. Seriously. I work with all types of interesting students and young adults when they are defining who – and what – they want to be in the world.
No two clients are alike; each one is amazing.
Through a developmental approach and engaged learning, our expert YCC team helps build the “know how” so that our clients can succeed.
I am so grateful for this wonderful opportunity of serving young people at this pivotal time in their lives.
Thanks! Best, Karen Kugel, Ed.M., CPS, CSCS
Struggling with Writing?
Check out our short and insightful “How to” tips on Living and Learning. Karen Kugel, YCC director, offers advice on “How to Write an Effective Personal Essay, Part 1”
How to Write a Standout Personal Essay, Part 1
Karen's experience in so many areas helped her appreciate how my son had special talents that could be used in the marketplace. This really streamlined the whole college major and career choice process.
—Carol & John, Medfield, MA
Everyone on the YCC team truly understands teens and enjoys working with them.
—Sherelle M., Cambridge, MA
This is such a stressful process. Karen created options and organization to make it so much easier.
—Louise T., Bedford, MA
YCC took a holistic approach with my three kids. It really worked!
—The Belden Family, Framingham, MA
Karen understands young adults. She challenges them, but in a fun way.
—Jean S., Mattapoisett, MA
Contact
Let’s talk. We want to hear all about your dreams for a great college or career experience. Our expert educational consulting, college admissions counseling, and career coaching can help make dreams a reality. We offer customized services to meet your individual, group, or organizational needs.
Karen Kugel, Director, YCC
