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Child, Family, and School Social Workers
Helps people and families through hard times and connects them to support.
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Social workers help families in crisis, protect children, support students, and connect people to housing, health care and counseling. They work in schools, hospitals, county agencies and nonprofits. Clinical social workers also provide therapy.
The guide checks the courses against your plan, with things to try each year. Free account needed.
High school courses that build toward it
- Psychology · Social Studies
Builds psychology, which this job uses.
- Child Development · Career and Technical
Builds teaching and training, which this job uses.
- English 10 · English
Builds reading and writing, which this job uses.
- Physical Education · Health and PE
Builds teaching and training, which this job uses.
- German · World Language
Builds a second language, which this job uses.
- Statistics · Math
Builds psychology, which this job uses.
Ranked by how much the job relies on what each course teaches, from O*NET's knowledge ratings. Your school's own courses and the counselor have the final word.
Child, Family, and School Social Workers on O*NET OnLine · O*NET 31.0 (U.S. Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0); BLS Employment Projections 2025.