Area of Study 7.0: Family and Human Services: Grades 6-12

Synthesize knowledge, skills, and practices required for careers in family & human services 

Analyze career paths within family and human services 

Analyze factors in providing family and human services. 

Demonstrate professional behaviors, skills, and knowledge in providing family and human services.

Analyze the impact of conditions that could influence the wellbeing of individuals and families.

Evaluate services for individuals and families with a variety of conditions that could impact their well-being.

Explain the roles and functions of individuals engaged in family and human services careers

Investigate opportunities for employment and entrepreneurial endeavors.

Summarize education and training requirements and opportunities for career paths in family and human services 

Analyze the effects of family and human service careers on local, state, national, and global economies.

Create an employment portfolio to communicate family and human services knowledge and skills.

Analyze the role of professional organizations in family and human services professions

Describe local, state, and national agencies and informal support resources providing human services

Analyze professional, ethical, legal, and safety issues for human services employees.

Summarize licensing laws and regulations that affect service providers and their participants.

Analyze harmful, fraudulent, unethical, and deceptive human services practices. 

Summarize the rights and responsibilities of human service participants and their families. 

Analyze effective self-advocacy strategies for human services professionals.

Investigate community-networking opportunities in family and human services. 

Evaluate rules, regulations, legal and work site policies that affect employer, employee, personal, and family rights and responsibilities.

Demonstrate professional and ethical behavior with peers in a variety of settings.

Analyze procedures for maintaining accurate and confidential documentation and submission practices. 

Demonstrate formal and informal assessment practices that evaluate participants' strengths, needs, preferences, and interests across the life span.

Demonstrate use of current and evolving technology in human services.

Investigate health, wellness, and safety issues of individual and families with a variety of conditions that could influence their well-being.

Analyze management and living environment issues of individuals and family conditions that influence their well-being.

Analyze personal, social, emotional, economic, vocational, educational, and recreational issues of individuals and family conditions that influence their well-being.

Differentiate between situations that require personal prevention or intervention and those situations that require professional assistance.

Analyze situations which require crisis intervention.

Summarize the appropriate support needed to address selected human services issues. 

Describe needs and accommodations for people with a variety of conditions that could affect their wellbeing. 

Analyze ways in which individuals with conditions that affect their well-being influence the family and family members financially, socially, physically, and emotionally over the lifespan. 

Illustrate coping or adjustment strategies and stress management practices for the participant, a caregiver, and family members.

Summarize the importance of friends, family, and community relationships for individuals with a variety of conditions that affect their well-being.

Demonstrate ways to provide support that validates the participants' capabilities and right to privacy, dignity, and autonomy.

Identify strategies that help participants make informed choices, access resources and support, follow through on responsibilities, and take appropriate risks.  

Demonstrate effective verbal and nonverbal communication skills that support individuals and families with a variety of conditions that could affect their well-being.