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Starting Early: Talking to Teens about Healthy Relationships

Starting Early: Talking to Teens about Healthy Relationships. Why Family and Consumer Sciences is the Perfect Fit. The Mission of Family and Consumer Sciences.

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Starting Early: Talking to Teens about Healthy Relationships

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  1. Starting Early:Talking to Teens about Healthy Relationships Why Family and Consumer Sciences is the Perfect Fit

  2. The Mission of Family and Consumer Sciences To prepare students for family, work and community by providing opportunities to develop the knowledge, skills, attitudes and behaviors needed to balance personal, home, family and work lives. From the National Standards for FCS Education

  3. FCS Education Programs • Are already in most public school and some private and charter schools • Include courses on Interpersonal Relationships and Family • Are based on National Standards

  4. Family and Consumer Sciences A New Hampshire Model • Middle School-Grades 6-8 • Topics • Interpersonal Relationship • Human Growth and Development • Personal Financial Literacy • Career Exploration • Food & Nutrition High School-Grades 9-12 • FCS- Adult Roles and Responsibilities (ARR) Survey Course available to all students. • Topics • Interpersonal Relationships including communication & conflict resolution • Adult roles including parenting • Personal Financial Literacy

  5. Family and Consumer SciencesHigh Schools Grades 9-12(Continued) • Further Study in Secondary • Family and Consumer Sciences • Family Issues • Marriage and Parenting • Child Development • Consumer & Resource Management • Issues of Aging • Foods and Nutrition • Career and Technical Education • ARR provides the foundation for: • Workplace skills for all careers • Balancing personal, family and work lives • ARR provides introduction to related FCS Careers • such as: • Family Studies • Early Childhood Educator Birth – Grade 3 • Marriage, Child & Family Counselors • Consumer Credit Counselors Strong Families = Strong Workers

  6. FCS Administrator at your State Department of Education Or Joan Fossum Education Consultant NH Department of Education 21 South Fruit Street #20 Concord, NH 03301 603-271-8489 jfossum@ed.state.nh.us How to Contact FCS Educators

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