Family Connection is an online tool available through Naviance that provides students access to resources, communication tools, and collaborative college and career activities. It allows students to research colleges, compare college majors, create resumes, request transcripts and recommendations, explore careers and clusters, search for colleges that match their interests, and communicate with counselors. The StrengthsExplorer assessment helps students identify their strengths to guide career and college exploration.

1. Naviance
An introduction to Family
Connection

2. What is Family Connection?
Through Naviance you will have access to Family Connection which
gives you access to online resources, communication tools, and college
and career collaborative activities.

3. Family Connection
• Notice of college visits
• Research colleges: compare colleges
• Information about college majors
• Create Resume
• Scattergrams
• Request Transcripts
• Request Counselor Recommendations

4. Family Connection

5. About Me
• StrengthsExplorer (grade 9/10)
• Resume: CAS, work, volunteer, awards,
skills, leadership, athletics, service (some
colleges ask for one)
• Teacher recommendations (uploaded there)

6. Strengths Explorer

10. Career
● Cluster Finder
● Explore Career & Clusters

11. Cluster Finder:

12. Explore Careers & Clusters
● Search by name
● Descriptions of occupations:
skills/knowledge, tasks, wages
● Related occupations
● Related majors & Plans of Study
● Colleges with related majors
● Videos

14. College
My Colleges:
● Colleges I am thinking about (big communication piece): Counselor and
student generated, compare me option, difficulty
● Colleges I have applied to:
College Research:
● Supermatch: North American Focused, best fit based on 23 indicators
● College Lookups: Stats, Overlaps, etc.

15. Colleges I am thinking about...
Check with
school!

16. Super Match

17. College Search:

19. Overlaps: (our students/data)

20. Scattergrams

21. Now it’s your turn!...
1: Explore college search and add colleges
2: Update your resume
3: Explore the links on the left hand side of the
home page
4: Do the StrengthsExplorer*; find a career/ college
major you may be interested in and explore it...