About Us /Community Outreach

We can bring our university resources to you.

• Continuing Education
• Haas Center for Business Research & Economic Development
• The Florida Inclusion Network (FIN)
• Small Business Development Center (SBDC)
• Center for Lifelong Learning(CLL)

Continuing Education

We want to stimulate creativity and change lives by helping individuals develop and refine their knowledge, skills and abilities. Our college-credit courses align with a variety of academic degrees. Non-credit programs are available in several formats including conferences, workshops and distance education. Click here for additional information.

If you need workforce education for a business or non-profit, then tell us what you want to learn, when you want to learn it and where you want to learn.

• IT Academy
• Reading Institute (K-12)
• Maritime Education

Haas Center for Business Research & Economic Development

The Haas Center for Business Research and Economic Development collects, analyzes, and distributes information about Northwest Florida. In addition to publishing its quarterly newsletter, Northwest Florida Economy, the Haas Center specializes in data analysis for the purposes of economic forecasting, marketing research, business expansion, tourism, and real estate development as well as industry and academic studies.

Contact Melissa Neal at 850.517.7260 or mneal@uwf.edu at 922 Mar Walt Drive Suite 203, Fort Walton Beach Florida, 32547. For more information on the Haas Center, please click here.

The Florida Inclusion Network (FIN)

For more information, please call Karen D’Avignon on the OWC/UWF FWB Campus at 850.863.0723 kdavignon@uwf.edu or visit www.FloridaInclusionNetwork.com.” This should read: “For more information, please contact Karen D’Avignon on the OWC/UWF FWB Campus at 850.863.0723 or kdavignon@uwf.edu or visit www.FloridaInclusionNetwork.com.

Small Business Development Center (SBDC)

The SBDC provides assistance with starting a business, increasing sales, reducing costs, improving cash flow and a variety of other services. In fact, the Fort Walton Beach office counsels nearly 400 clients annually and provides workshops for more than 1,000 area businesses and community members. 

The Fort Walton Beach office is located at 922 Mar Walt Drive, Ste. 203. Please call 850.833.9400 or go to www.sbdc.uwf.edu for more information.

Center for Lifelong Learning(CLL)

Our office is located in BLDG 4 Room 461 on the Ft. Walton Beach campus of the University of West Florida.
You may contact the CLL Office by phone, fax, or e-mail, as follows:
Phone: 850.863.6548
FAX: 850.863.0715
e-mail: cll@uwf.edu
Our mailing address is:
Center for Lifelong Learning
University of West Florida Campus 1170 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
Fort Walton Beach, FL 32547

http://www.cll-fwb.org/CLL_Office.html