COURSE CODE: 8205

Career, Community and Family Connections

SCED Code: 19299
Virginia Extended Description: 18
Suggested Grade Level: 10, 11, 12
Duration: 18 Weeks
Hours: 70
Credits: 0.5
Prerequisite: None
OSHA Compliance Required?: No
CTSO: FCCLA

Career, Community, and Family Connections provides tools to meet and balance the multiple demands of career, family, and personal life. The course teaches problem solving, conflict management, goal setting, stress management, resource management, and interpersonal skills needed to build strong relationships in the family, the workplace, and the community. 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.

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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.

Career Clusters

Pathway Occupation
Administration & Administrative Support
  • Education and Childcare Administrators, Preschool and Daycare
  • Education Administrators, All Other
  • Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary
  • Instructional Coordinators
Professional Support Services
  • School Psychologists
  • Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors and Advisors
  • Archivists
  • Curators
  • Museum Technicians and Conservators
  • Librarians and Media Collections Specialists
  • Library Technicians
  • Instructional Coordinators
  • Educational Instruction and Library Workers, All Other
  • Interpreters and Translators
  • School Bus Monitors
  • Library Assistants, Clerical
Teaching/Training
  • Preschool Teachers, Except Special Education
  • Kindergarten Teachers, Except Special Education
  • Middle School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education
  • Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education
  • Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education
  • Career/Technical Education Teachers, Middle School
  • Career/Technical Education Teachers, Secondary School
  • Special Education Teachers, Preschool
  • Special Education Teachers, Kindergarten
  • Special Education Teachers, Elementary School
  • Special Education Teachers, Middle School
  • Special Education Teachers, Secondary School
  • Special Education Teachers, All Other
  • Self-Enrichment Teachers
  • Substitute Teachers, Short-Term
  • Tutors
  • Teachers and Instructors, All Other
  • Librarians and Media Collections Specialists
  • Instructional Coordinators
  • Teaching Assistants, Preschool, Elementary, Middle, and Secondary School, Except Special Education
  • Teaching Assistants, All Other
  • Educational Instruction and Library Workers, All Other
  • Coaches and Scouts
  • Interpreters and Translators
  • Dietitians and Nutritionists
  • Exercise Trainers and Group Fitness Instructors
  • Recreation Workers

Pathway Occupation
Consumer Services
  • Marketing Managers
  • Sales Managers
  • Credit Counselors
  • Farm and Home Management Educators
  • Interpreters and Translators
  • First-Line Supervisors of Retail Sales Workers
Counseling & Mental Health Services
  • Clinical and Counseling Psychologists
  • School Psychologists
  • Psychologists, All Other
  • Substance Abuse and Behavioral Disorder Counselors
  • Marriage and Family Therapists
  • Mental Health Counselors
  • Rehabilitation Counselors
  • Counselors, All Other
  • Healthcare Social Workers
  • Mental Health and Substance Abuse Social Workers
  • Health Education Specialists
  • Directors, Religious Activities and Education
  • Religious Workers, All Other
  • Clergy
  • Psychiatrists
  • Recreation Workers
Early Childhood Development & Services
  • Preschool Teachers, Except Special Education
  • Farm and Home Management Educators
Family & Community Services
  • Social and Community Service Managers
  • Managers, All Other
  • Sociologists
  • Social Scientists and Related Workers, All Other
  • Social Science Research Assistants
  • Marriage and Family Therapists
  • Counselors, All Other
  • Child, Family, and School Social Workers
  • Healthcare Social Workers
  • Health Education Specialists
  • Probation Officers and Correctional Treatment Specialists
  • Social and Human Service Assistants
  • Community Health Workers
  • Community and Social Service Specialists, All Other
  • Clergy
  • Directors, Religious Activities and Education
  • Religious Workers, All Other
  • Farm and Home Management Educators
  • Protective Service Workers, All Other
  • Childcare Workers
  • Residential Advisors
  • Eligibility Interviewers, Government Programs

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