BPSS Family and Consumer Science Standards

Area of Study 07:

Family and Community Services

Comprehensive Standard - Synthesize knowledge, skills, and practices required for careers in family and community services.

Standard FAC-07.1 Analyze career paths within family and community services.

• • FAC-07.1.01 Explain the roles and functions of individuals engaged in family and community services careers.
  • FAC-07.1.02 Analyze opportunities for employment and entrepreneurial endeavors.
  • FAC-07.1.03 Summarize education and training requirements and opportunities for career paths in family and community services.
  • FAC-07.1.04 Analyze the effects of family and community service occupations on local, state, national, and global economies.
  • FAC-07.1.05 Demonstrate job acquisition skills to gain work-based learning opportunities and employment in family and community services careers.
  • FAC-07.1.06 Analyze the role of professional organizations in family and community services professions.

Standard FAC-07.2 Analyze factors relating to providing family and community services.

• • FAC-07.2.01 Describe local, state, and national agencies and informal support resources providing human services.
  • FAC-07.2.02 Analyze professional, ethical, legal, and safety issues that confront human service employees.
  • FAC-07.2.03 Summarize licensing laws and regulations that affect service providers and their participants.
  • FAC-07.2.04 Analyze harmful, fraudulent, and deceptive human services practices.
  • FAC-07.2.05 Summarize the rights and responsibilities of human service participants and their families.
  • FAC-07.2.06 Analyze effective individual and family advocacy and self-advocacy strategies to overcome diverse challenges facing human services participants.
  • FAC-07.2.07 Analyze community-networking opportunities in family and community services.

Standard FAC-07.3 Demonstrate professional behaviors, skills, and knowledge in providing family and community services.

• • FAC-07.3.01 Apply rules, regulations, and work site policies that affect employer, employee, participant, and family rights and responsibilities.
  • FAC-07.3.02 Demonstrate professional and ethical collaborative relationships with colleagues, support teams, participants, and families.
  • FAC-07.3.03 Maintain accurate and confidential documentation to be submitted in a timely manner to appropriate sources.
  • FAC-07.3.04 Analyze participants’ strengths, needs, preferences, and interests across the life span through formal and informal assessment practices.
  • FAC-07.3.05 Demonstrate use of technology in human services.

Standard FAC-07.4 Evaluate conditions affecting individuals and families with a variety of disadvantaging conditions.

• • FAC-07.4.01 Assess health, wellness, and safety issues of individual and families with a variety of disadvantaging conditions.
  • FAC-07.4.02 Analyze management and living environment issues of individuals and families with a variety of disadvantaging conditions.
  • FAC-07.4.03 Analyze personal, social, emotional, economic, vocational, educational, and recreational issues for individuals and family with a variety of disadvantaging conditions.
  • FAC-07.4.04 Discriminate between situations that require personal prevention or intervention and those situations that require professional assistance.
  • FAC-07.4.05 Analyze situations which require crisis intervention.
  • FAC-07.4.06 Summarize the appropriate support needed to address selected human services issues.

Standard FAC-07.5 Evaluate services for individuals and families with a variety of disadvantaging conditions.

• • FAC-07.5.01 Describe needs and accommodations for people with a variety of disadvantaging conditions.
  • FAC-07.5.02 Analyze ways in which individuals with disadvantaging conditions affect the family and family members financially, socially, physically, and emotionally.
  • FAC-07.5.03 Illustrate coping or adjustment strategies and stress management practices for the participant, a caregiver, and family members.
  • FAC-07.5.04 Summarize the importance of friends, family, and community relationships for an individual with a variety of disadvantaging conditions.
  • FAC-07.5.05 Demonstrate ways to provide support that validates the participants’ capabilities and right to privacy, dignity, and autonomy.
  • FAC-07.5.06 Demonstrate strategies that help participants make informed choices, access resources and support, follow through on responsibilities, and take appropriate risks.
  • FAC-07.5.07 Demonstrate verbal and nonverbal communication skills that support individuals and families with a variety of disadvantaging conditions.