Family Connection is a web-based program for Ocean City High School students and parents to assist with decisions about courses, colleges, careers and funding. It provides tools for career and personality assessments, college searches and scholarships. Counselors can update announcements and resources. Use of the program is free to students and families.

2.  Family Connection is a Web-based program designed for
students and parents.
 It assists students and parents in helping make decisions
about courses, colleges and careers as well as assist in
finding funding.
 Information is specific to Ocean City High School.
 Counselors can update students and parents about up-
coming meetings, news, events, and other Web
resources for college and career information.
 No direct cost to the student or families as the service is
paid by the school district.

3.  Complete the “Do What You Are” to determine
individual personality type
 Career Interest Profiler (what careers match my
interests)
 Career Exploration/Clusters
 College Searches
 College “Look Up”
 Acceptance History***
 Visit Schedule
 Scholarship Opportunities

4. • On the OCHS home page, enter the code that was provided
to you tonight (or prior).
• Complete the registration page using your email address
and a password.
• NOTE: Future log-ins will only require your email and
password.
• Announcements, emails and other important information
are posted on the Welcome page. Check it often!

5.  Allows you to view and identify courses that may be of
interest to you while you are a student at OCHS.
 Register for courses and coordinate career goals with multi-
year course planning.
 Create lists of interesting courses
 personal notes to course plans

8.  Explore career profiles by different methods of
sorting such as by career clusters, by interest, by
personality type
 Provides you with career information such as
education requirements, specific job
responsibilities, average salaries, and jobs within
each career field.
 Allows you to take a personality test and career
interest profiler to help you find a career that
matches your interests.

13.  Allows you to create goals and tasks
 Allows you to create a profile and update test
scores
 Allows you to create and save documents, lists
colleges and career paths you find interesting,
record information from your personality test,
work on your resume and complete surveys

17.  Explore colleges in different ways: location, majors, resources,
etc. View average test scores, average GPA’s, funding sources
of students, tuition costs, student life, diversity levels,
attrition rates, etc.
 Identify how you compare (GPA and Test Scores) with other
students who applied to this school. The scattergram shows
test scores and GPA’s of past students who applied.
 Explore enrichment programs (ie. Summer programs).
 Explore scholarships and complete scholarship applications.
 Exercise: go to scattergrams and select Kean University or
Rutgers University as an example. What is the average GPA of
students accepted to Kean and Rutgers?

31.  Thank you for your time and attention tonight!
Tobi Oves
College and Career Counselor
Ocean City School District
609-814-8716
toves@ocsdnj.org