COLORADO
FAMILY AND CONSUMER SCIENCES
SECONDARY PROGRAMS
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Leadership skills integrated through the youth organization – FCCLA
Family and Consumer Sciences CORE - CIP 19.0000
Our students today are the future leaders and members of tomorrow’s families, workplaces, and communities. Essential preparation for success includes acquisition of leadership, problem-solving, decision-making, critical thinking, communication, computer, and mathematics skills. Family and Consumer Sciences (FACS) CORE courses are solidly linked to the Colorado Model Content Standards (mathematics, reading and writing, and science) and the Colorado General Workplace Competencies. All FACS courses are reimbursable for Colorado Vocational Act (CVA) and Perkins funding. A student must complete two out of the five (Teen Choices, Life Management, Relationships, Child and Adolescent Development, or Nutrition and Wellness) CORE courses for completion status.
Teen Choices
• One-semester course designed for 9th and 10th graders as a feeder to other CORE courses
• Focuses on personal power and success, wellness, personal relationships, understanding personal sexuality, and teens and the law
Life Management
• One-semester course designed for 11th and 12th graders
• Purpose is to develop educated consumers with an understanding and academic knowledge of consumer resources and financial organizations.
• Focuses on personal and family resources, job and career, personal and family finances, and wellness.
Relationships
• One-semester course designed for 11th and 12th graders
• Purpose is to acquire academic knowledge and understanding for healthy, respectful, and caring relationships across the life span.
• Emphasis is placed on family and friend dynamics, effective communication, and healthy interpersonal relationships.
Child and Adolescent Development
• One-semester course designed for 10th, 11th, and 12th graders
• Purpose is to acquire knowledge and understanding of child and adolescent development necessary for strengthening the well-being of children and families.
• Focuses on perspectives of human development, research and theories, understanding and nurturing development, and challenges.
Nutrition and Wellness
• One-semester course designed for 10th, 11th, and 12th graders
• Purpose is to develop lifelong, healthy individuals with an understanding and academic knowledge of wellness as a lifestyle, exercise and fitness, nutrition, and consumer products and services.
• Emphasis is placed on implementing healthy nutritional choices, developing a fitness plan, integrating science principles as related to nutrition, and practicing wise consumer decisions.
Teen Parent Program (CIP 19.0799)
• Two-semester program for pregnant and/or parenting teens
• Focuses on skill development for the parent.
• Emphasizes relationship building between parent and child, problem-solving skills, and communication.