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Family Connection/Naviance
When you cease to dream, you cease to live.
— Malcolm S. Forbes
Family Connection/Naviance
Family Connection/Naviance is on online career and college program that links students, parents and counselors. Beginning in
freshmen year, students learn to access Family Connections and begin the process of discerning who they are and who they want
to become.
Parents simultaneously receive access to the program, and give their input.
Students will:
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Discern their learning style
Complete a personality inventory
Link personality to potential careers and vocations
Complete an inventory for career exploration based on Holland’s interest codes
Research colleges
Family Connection links counselors and schools with students and parents to:
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Improve course planning for high school
Improves college planning
Improve career planning
Bishop O’Dowd counselors and teachers use Naviance to electronically file documents directly to common
application and other college filing systems.
Please click this link to access Naviance Family Connections and see the instructions below. If you have any questions, please
contact your student’s counselor.
Instructions for Using Family Connection
Academic Support Center
Need assistance with your studies? Dragon Success, final exam prep, CORE, and more are available to O’Dowd students.
Learn more…
Download list of Private Tutors
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Parents Press recently interviewed our director of counseling, Fran Warmerdam. Read the article “College Bound – A
Step-by-Step Guide to Higher Learning”
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Senior Teen Challenge
College Financial Aid
Financial Aid Presentation (English)
Financial Aid Presentation (Spanish)
If you need financial aid to attend college, these resources are a good starting point »
2015-2016 Evening with the
Experts Presentations
Ralph Cantor: Drugs and the Adolescent Brain
Jason Brand: A Road Map for Parenting Your Digital Teen
David Franklin: Raising Kids in a Changing World
Parent-Wise Online Drug and
Alcohol Education
Bishop O’Dowd is partnering with 3rd Millennium Classrooms to offer online drug and alcohol education to students and
parents.
Download the instructions to get started.
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