Independent Living
Independent Living students become prepared to meet the challenges of living on their own. Students build life skills focusing on creating a healthy lifestyle and establish healthy relationships along with making responsible financial, consumer, nutrition, and housing decisions. Contextual instruction and student participation in co-curricular career and technical student organization (CTSO) activities will develop leadership, interpersonal, and career skills. High-quality work-based learning (HQWBL) will provide experiential learning opportunities related to students' career goals and/or interests, integrated with instruction, and performed in partnership with local businesses and organizations.
Notes
This framework has course sequences that have been revised; they will be published on July 1, 2027, and will be effective for the 2027-2028 school year. For additional information, see the course sequence spreadsheet on the Resources page. For technical assistance, please email CTE@doe.virginia.gov.
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Course Sequences
A combination of this course and those below, equivalent to two 36-week courses, is a concentration sequence. Students wishing to complete a specialization may take additional courses based on their career pathways. A program completer is a student who has met the requirements for a CTE concentration sequence and all other requirements for high school graduation or an approved alternative education program.
- Child Development and Parenting (18 Weeks)
- Child Development and Parenting (36 Weeks)
- Culinary Arts I (36 Weeks)
- Early Childhood, Education, and Services I (36 Weeks)
- Family and Human Services I (36 Weeks)
- Family Relations (18 Weeks)
- Family Relations (36 Weeks)
- Fashion Careers I (36 Weeks)
- Hospitality, Tourism, and Recreation I (36 Weeks)
- Individual Development (18 Weeks)
- Individual Development (36 Weeks)
- Interior Design I (36 Weeks)
- Introduction to Culinary Arts (18 Weeks)
- Introduction to Culinary Arts (36 Weeks)
- Introduction to Early Childhood Education (18 Weeks)
- Introduction to Early Childhood Education (36 Weeks)
- Introduction to Family and Human Services (18 Weeks)
- Introduction to Family and Human Services (36 Weeks)
- Introduction to Fashion Careers (18 Weeks)
- Introduction to Fashion Careers (36 Weeks)
- Introduction to Hospitality, Tourism, and Recreation (18 Weeks)
- Introduction to Hospitality, Tourism, and Recreation (36 Weeks)
- Introduction to Interior Design (18 Weeks)
- Introduction to Interior Design (36 Weeks)
- Life Planning (18 Weeks)
- Life Planning (36 Weeks)
- Nutrition and Wellness (18 Weeks)
- Nutrition and Wellness (36 Weeks)
Career Clusters
| Pathway | Occupation |
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| Learner Support and Community Engagement |
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