Home and Career Skills is a New York State mandated course taught in grades 6, 7, 8 in the discipline of Family and Consumer Sciences. It is a course designed to prepare students to meet their present and future responsibilities as family and community members, consumers, home managers, and wage earners. The goal is to educate students to think constructively, make sound decisions, solve problems, and manage resources.

The Home and Career Skills course affords all students multiple opportunities to read, write, and compute in the context of real world situations that are relevant to early adolescents. Home and Career Skills is a skills based curriculum.

Home and Career Skills is organized into four process skills: Communication, Leadership, Management, and Thinking, and ten content topics: Community Connections, Career Development, Clothing Management, Consumer Resource Management, Family / Parenting, Financial Management, Human Development, Interpersonal Relationships, Nutrition and Wellness, Personal Environment Management.

Home and Career Skills is one of a variety of Specials classes offered to middle school students at PVC. The Specials meet for one trimester, approximately 13 weeks.