1. Hello and Welcome to Family Connection! I am the NaviGator, here to guide and to assist you.

2.  We are pleased to introduce Family Connection from Naviance, a web- based service designed especially to help students research and then apply to colleges and universities.  Family Connection is a comprehensive website that you and your student can use to help in making decisions about colleges and careers.  Family Connection is linked with Naviance Succeed, which we use in our office to track and analyze data about college and career plans, so it provides up-to-date information that is specific to UNIS. The following slides provide an overview of Family Connection: Family Connection

3. Using Family Connection An On-line Resource for College/University Planning & Advising

4. WHAT CAN STUDENTS & PARENTS DO USING FAMILY CONNECTION?

5. After Students Sign in Important Messages Updates from the College Office Click on the Tabs

6. Colleges Page Use these links to do a college search

7. College Visits Students can see which Colleges will visit UNIS and can sign up to attend these meetings!

8. College Profile Visit College Website

9. Colleges I’m Thinking About Click here to add colleges to the prospective college list

10. Colleges I’m Applying to Add colleges and request transcripts

11. About Me – Resume and Surveys Click here to fill out important surveys, tell us your Game Plan and create your resume

12. Search for and Explore Careers

13. Careers There are hundreds of careers in Naviance

14. Shared resource linking home to school On-line tool for collaboration between counselors and students. Accurate, complete records about student choices from our school Realistic assessments of your student’s chances of admission at colleges where prior UNIS students have applied Career exploration How does Naviance help?

15. Remember -- there is so much more that the UNIS college counseling team can help you with!