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Career: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅A progression of related jobs a person has over an extended
period of time.
Career path: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅A career path helps you find out how you might move from
one job to another within a career cluster.
Credential/Certification: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅An earned distinction used to indicate a
professional is suitable and qualified to do something or work in a field.
Consumer services: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Pathway that includes occupations related to helping
individuals with decisions and problems relating to finance, real estate, insurance and consumer goods.
Counseling and mental health: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Pathway that includes workers who assist
people with personal, family, educational, mental health, and career decisions and problems. Might
work in hospitals, clinics, schools or private settings.
Early childhood services: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Pathway that includes occupations related to the
nurturing or teaching of infants and young children in child care centers, nursery schools, preschools,
public schools, private households, and before- and after-school programs.
Family and community services: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Pathway that includes occupations
related to helping disabled, elderly, impoverished or other underrepresented populations to secure
housing, employment, financial assistance or other social services.
Human services: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅A broad career field that involves helping others to
improve their quality of life throughout the life span.
Human services practitioner: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Person who works with in the human
services career field.
,Anna Y. Reed: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Author of Junior Wage Earners book. Written in 1920.
Proponent of children's education and vocational guidance in learning to better employment potential.
Also outspoken in the area of Prison Reform and the need to link prison placement with rehabilitation.
Eli Weaver: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Organized teacher guidance committees in every high school
in New York. These committees were designed to help students discover their skills for the most
appropriate employment. Worked with Anna Y. Reed to judge a person's employability for specific jobs.
Ellen Richards: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅The founder of the Home Economics, currently known as
Family and Consumer Sciences. First women in history to earn a degree in Chemistry. First person to link
the worlds of science and chemistry to nutrition.
Doris Calloway: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅American nutritionist from the University of Berkeley, CA.
Ran the "Penthouse Project". Developed the standards of nutrition and worked with NASA to create
"space food".
James Lind: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Scottish physician that fought to improve the hygiene and
nutrition of early naval sailors. Wrote Treatise of the Scurvy about treating the nutritionally related
disease of Scurvy. Introduced the use of citrus fruits, specifically oranges, as a way to protect men at sea
from developing Scurvy.
James Cattell: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅American psychologist that developed what was known as
"mental tests". Those test are known as intelligence measurement tests that are used today. Believed
that inherited as well as environmental influences have an affect on a person's mental capabilities.
E.G. Williamson: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Thought of as one of the Fathers of Counseling.
Expanded counseling beyond its vocational orientation into other areas. Lead to career opportunities in
different types of counseling that we now have today.
Carl Pfeiffer: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅American doctor who linked the use of nutrition and
biochemistry in aiding mental disorders and disturbances such as those experienced by schizophrenic
patients. Believed that trace minerals and biochemistry play a part in mental stability. This became
known as Pfeiffer's Law.
,Jane Addams: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅1st American women awarded a Noble Prize for her work
involving women and children. Opened the Hull House. Is recognized as the founding mother of Social
Work as we know it. Her work in aiding women and children in the areas of health, community and
world peace continues today.
Administration For Children and Families: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅These programs include
assistance with welfare, child support enforcement, adoption assistance, foster care, child care, and
child abuse.
Center for Disease Control-(CDC): - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅It especially focuses its attention on
infectious disease, environmental health, occupational safety and health, health promotion, injury
prevention and educational activities to improve health.
Center for Medicaid and Medical Services: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Program administers the
Medicare program and works in partnership with state governments to administer Medicaid, the State
Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), and health insurance portability standards.
Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Program works to improve the
health and well-being of Americans by developing and promoting dietary guidance that links scientific
research to the nutrition needs of consumers.
Community Planning Development: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Help communities plan and finance
their growth and development, increase their capacity to govern, and provide shelter and services for
homeless people.
Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Enforces federal fair housing laws
and establishing policies that make sure all Americans have equal access to the housing of their choice.
Federal Housing Administration: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Improve housing standards and
conditions, provide an adequate home financing system through insurance of mortgage loans, and to
stabilize the mortgage market.
Food and Drug Administration-(FDA): - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Protects and promotes public health
through the regulation and supervision of food safety, tobacco products, cosmetics, animal foods & feed
and veterinary products.
, Food and Nutrition Service: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Program increases food security and reduces
hunger in partnership with cooperating organizations by providing children and low-income people
access to food, a healthy diet, and nutrition education in a manner that supports American agriculture
and inspires public confidence.
Food Safety and Inspection Service: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Program enhances public health and
well-being by protecting the public from foodborne illness and ensuring that the nation's meat, poultry
and egg products are safe, wholesome, and correctly packaged.
NC Cooperative Extension: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Partnership between government, land-grant
universities (NC State and NC A&T) and Department of Agriculture to provide educational programming
in areas like: protecting the environment, maintaining viable communities, developing responsible
youth, and developing strong, healthy and safe families.
NC Department of Health and Human Services, Social Services: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Protect
children, strengthen families, and help all North Carolinians to achieve maximum self-sufficiency. Issue
Food Stamps, heating assistance and administer Child Protection Services.
NC Department of Justice, Attorney General's Office: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Protect NC
consumers by fighting unfair business practices like scams and frauds.
NC Dept. of Public Instruction: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Implements the State's public school laws
and State Board of Education's policies governing public education.
NC Division of Child Development and Early Education: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅A division of the
NC Health and Human Services Division that governs, guides and regulates early education, child cares
and assists in meeting needs for children and families.
Public Indian Housing: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Ensures safe, decent, and affordable housing,
create opportunities for residents' self-sufficiency and economic independence, and assure the fiscal
integrity of all program participants.