GROWTH AND CHANGE THROUGHOUT LIFECYCLE
Stages of Personal Development:
Physical Growth: actual growing of physical body.
Intellectual Growth: increase of focus, speech, hearing, and exhibition of learning behaviors.
Emotional Growth: exhibits how student reacts to emotional issues; understanding, and controlling their emotions.
Social Growth: how student interacts peers including learned cooperation developed leading and following capabilities and self-discipline
Intellectual Growth: increase of focus, speech, hearing, and exhibition of learning behaviors.
Emotional Growth: exhibits how student reacts to emotional issues; understanding, and controlling their emotions.
Social Growth: how student interacts peers including learned cooperation developed leading and following capabilities and self-discipline
Family Life Cycle Stages:
Beginning stage (couple only)
Parenting/Expanding stage (having children)
Developing stage (raising children)
Launching stage (children leave the home)
Mid-years stage (couple only again)
Aging/retirement stage (travel, vacation, enjoy life)
Parenting/Expanding stage (having children)
Developing stage (raising children)
Launching stage (children leave the home)
Mid-years stage (couple only again)
Aging/retirement stage (travel, vacation, enjoy life)
Recognizing Roles in Family Life Cycle
Various Life Roles:
It is important to always seek to maintain a good balance in Life Roles
Assistance and Other Resources
- School resources
- Social services provider
- Guidance counselor
- Mentor
- Child nutrition services
- Community resources
- Department of Social Services
- Adoption
Child Support Enforcement
Emergency Assistance (Short-Term Financial Assistance for Families in Crisis)
Food and Nutrition Services (Formerly Food Stamps)
Foster Care
Directory of North Carolina County Departments of Social Services
Independent Living Services for Foster Children (LINKS)
Information for Employers
Low Income Energy Assistance
Pregnancy Services
Refugee Services
Safe Surrender (Surrender Newborns Safely)
Work First Cash Assistance - Mental Health
- Job/Career Centers
- Employee Assistance Programs