GRADS (Graduation, Reality, and Dual-Role Skills): Family Focus
Pregnant and parenting adolescents enrolled in the Graduation, Reality, and Dual-Role Skills Program (GRADS), with a family focus, will complete graduation requirements, build employment skills, and receive parenting and life-management skills to improve quality of life for themselves and their child. Content includes self-esteem, communication skills, and interpersonal relationships. In addition, the course includes instruction on pre- and postnatal care, wellness, and child development. Students will focus on evaluating the cost of parenthood and childcare, as well as balancing work and family and managing economic resources. Emphasis is placed on exploring careers and acquiring employability skills.
Note: GRADS (Graduation, Reality, and Dual-Role Skills): Family Focus may be offered as a complement to an existing concentration sequence in any Career Cluster. In some instances, where noted, it may be combined with specific courses to create concentration sequences.
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 II (36 Weeks)
- Early Childhood, Education, and Services II (36 Weeks)
- Family and Human Services I (36 Weeks)
- Family and Human Services II (36 Weeks)
- Family Relations (18 Weeks)
- Family Relations (36 Weeks)
- Fashion Careers I (36 Weeks)
- Fashion Careers II (36 Weeks)
- GRADS (Graduation, Reality, and Dual-Role Skills): Family Focus (18 Weeks)
- Hospitality, Tourism, and Recreation I (36 Weeks)
- Hospitality, Tourism, and Recreation II (36 Weeks)
- Independent Living (18 Weeks)
- Independent Living (36 Weeks)
- Individual Development (18 Weeks)
- Individual Development (36 Weeks)
- Interior Design I (36 Weeks)
- Interior Design II (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 |
|---|---|
| Early Childhood Development and Services |
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