Human Services Career Pathways

What provides human services workers with opportunities to learn new information through professional development and facilitates networking with colleagues?

• professional associations

• licensing, certifications, and credentials

• salary and benefits

• labor market data

Preschool teachers represent jobs in which human services career pathway?

• counseling and mental health

• early childhood services

• family and community services

In the context of human services, _______ associations provide opportunities for professional development and networking.

• professional

• licensing

• salary

• labor

Nutritionists and dietitians are jobs found in which human services career pathways?

• early childhood services

• counseling and mental health services

• visual arts

• family and community services

Which human services career pathway includes occupations related to the nurturing or teaching of infants and young children in a variety of public and private settings?

• family and community services

• early childhood services

• counseling and mental health services

Which human services leader linked chemistry to nutrition and founded home economics, which is currently known as family and consumer sciences?

• A. Carl Pfeiffer

• B. Anna Y. Reed

• C. Ellen Richards

• D. Jane Addams

Which human services career pathway includes occupations related to helping disabled, elderly, impoverished, or other underrepresented populations to secure housing, employment, financial assistance, or other social services?

• family and community services

• early childhood services

• consumer services

Which human services career pathway includes occupations that help individuals with decisions and problems relating to finance, real estate, insurance, and consumer goods?

• A. family and community services

• B. counseling and mental health services

• C. consumer services

• D. early childhood services

Which career pathway best suits someone who understands psychology and enjoys working to help people with decisions and problems?

• consumer services

• family and community services

• early childhood services

• counseling and mental health services

Which human services leader opened the "Hull House," was the first American woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, and is recognized as the founding mother of social work?

• A. Jane Addams

• B. Doris Calloway

• C. Anna Y. Reed

• D. Ellen Richards