Family and Consumer Sciences (FACS) addresses the multiple challenges and issues individuals face in everyday life.  While students need core academic competencies, other competencies such as interpersonal skills also closely correlate to job/career success.  The  balance between work and family is a unique focus of FACS curriculum.

   The FACS curriculum is designed to help students develop the critical and creative thinking skills necessary to address problems in diverse family, community, and work environments.  Society depends on two constants -- work and family -- for its health and survival.

   The family and consumer sciences curriculum covers six essential life skill areas: consumer education, food science and personal nutrition, housing and home furnishings, marriage and family life, parenting and child development, and personal clothing management.  Career orientation competencies are taught in each of these six life skills for specific occupations along with the knowledge and skills needed to successfully balance work and family responsibilities.

   All students graduating from high school would greatly benefit, as would society, from the skills and competencies taught in a Family and Consumer Sciences (FACS) Program.  The FACS' curriculum creates a foundation for occupationally specific programs in technology centers, junior colleges, four-year colleges, and universities.