Human Services
Pathway 1: Consumer Services
People with careers in consumer services assist individuals with decisions and problems relating to finance, real estate, insurance, and consumer goods.
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Pathway 2: Counseling & Mental Health Services
People working in counseling and mental health services assist people with personal, family, educational, and mental health problems, and with career decisions. Mental health services may be provided in hospitals, clinics, schools, or private settings.
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Pathway 3: Early Childhood Development & Services
People with careers in early childhood development and services nurture and teach children. They provide services in childcare centers, nursery schools, preschools, public schools, private households, family childcare homes, and before- and after-school programs.
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Pathway 4: Family & Community Services
Employees with careers in family and community services help the homeless, housebound, and infirm cope with circumstances of daily living; counsel troubled and emotionally disturbed individuals; train or retrain the unemployed or underemployed; care for the elderly and the physically and mentally disabled; help the needy obtain financial assistance; and, solicit contributions for various social services organizations.
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Pathway 5: Personal Care Services
People with careers in personal care services assist individuals with their personal appearance, including shampooing, cutting, coloring, and styling hair; giving manicures, pedicures, and scalp and facial treatments; providing makeup analysis; cleaning and styling wigs and hairpieces; and, providing personal fitness training. Also, within personal care services, funeral directors and attendants make funeral arrangements for grieving families.
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