Affiliated Faculty
Affiliated Faculty are available to co-advise HDFS graduate students and serve on HDFS graduate exam and thesis committees, but their teaching and governance responsibilities lie within their home
Credentials
Gateways credential courses cover a variety of child development and early childhood education topics.
Bylaws
Department of Human Development and Family Studies
College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Job Opportunities
We value our childcare workers and want to invest in your future with the following job benefits:
Adoption, Child Welfare, and Social Service Assistants
Social and human service workers have many job titles, including case work aide, clinical social work aide, family service assistant, social work assistant, addictions counselor assistant, and human service worker.
Career Counseling
Career counselors (also called vocational counselors) are trained to assist people with the process of making career decisions.
Child Life Specialist
Trained professionals with expertise in helping children and their families overcome life’s most challenging events
Clinical Psychology
Clinical psychologists assess, diagnose, and treat mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders.