COLORADO
FAMILY AND CONSUMER SCIENCES
OCCUPATIONAL PROGRAMS
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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.