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Provision of care to individuals (residential or non-residential):

  • Childcare provider
  • Child life/hospitalized child care provider
  • Elder care provider
  • After school/summer care provider
  • Hospice care coordinator
  • Residential youth care provider

Administration/coordination:

  • Consumer education/protection program coordinator
  • Child/Youth/Elder care program director 
  • Children's museum director
  • Volunteer coordinator
  • Support group coordinator
  • Child care resource & referral program director

Community outreach services :

  • Adoption placement
  • Social service agency programming
  • Public health/public aid
  • At-risk youth programming
  • Domestic violence programming/shelters
  • Crisis nursery
  • Crisis hotline programs
  • Hospital social services
  • Elder services
  • Credit counseling services
  • Child care/elder care resource and referral service provider
  • Children's librarian 
  • Consumer advocate
  • Consumer relations specialist
  • Consumer complaint investigator/mediator
  • Lobbyist

 

 

Educational programming to individuals and families:

  • Preschool/nursery teacher
  • Family life educator
  • Adult education provider
  • Employee assistance program provider
  • Early intervention provider
  • Marriage enrichment/couple relationship enhancement program provider
  • Consumer communication/media specialist
  • Product information specialist
  • Consumer educator

Entrepreneurship:

  • Consulting
  • Product development
  • Grant writing
  • Owner of business which:
    • Transports children to and from home/school/day-care, etc.
    • Provides a consumer service (e.g., long distance oversight of elder care)
    • Markets children's clothing or educational toys
  • Author/illustrator of children's books, magazines and newspapers

 

 

Reggie Redbird

Department of Family & Consumer Sciences
Campus Box 5060
Normal, Il 61790-5060
Phone: (309) 438-2517
Fax: (309) 438-5659

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