Community Health Education, Community Health Education - school health education, Psychology, Rehabilitation Administration, Rehabilitation Services, Special Education, Ski Industries (adaptive coaching/teaching and also professional instruction & coaching), Social Enterprise/Entrepreneurship

Health & Human Services
The University of Maine at Farmington offers a number of high quality majors in areas that at their core are dedicated to helping others: Community Health Education, Community Health Education with a concentration in school health education, Psychology, Rehabilitation Administration, Rehabilitation Services, and Special Education.We also offer a Ski Industries Certificate with focus areas in disabilities skiing and in professional ski instruction & coaching.

Each of these areas is a helping profession that focuses on people, young and old — their strengths, abilities, and choices. It is a field dedicated to assisting people with all abilities or at-risk conditions to function effectively in their living, learning, and working environments.

Community Health Education combines classroom-based research, on-campus work opportunities, and other projects led by faculty with a range of specialties including nutrition, stress management, human sexuality, environmental health, disease prevention and health promotion. The Community Health Education – school health education concentration prepares you to teach health in K-12 classrooms in Maine and in approximately 30 other states.

Our popular Psychology program provides a strong foundation in Psychology where creative thinking and intellectual independence are encouraged. Exciting course work and supportive faculty help prepare you for careers in all areas of psychology as well as social work, human services, research, business, law. Our Psychology graduates have gone on to some of the nation’s top graduate schools.

In Rehabilitation Services, you’ll learn to work with individuals and groups across a wide range of ages, limiting conditions and disabilities. You can specialize in areas such as mental illness, behavioral problems, drug and alcohol abuse, mental retardation, aging, therapeutic recreation, expressive arts, and career services.

Graduates have worked in a variety of social service settings: counseling, social work, human services, mental health, community support services, employment services, family services, and attended some of the finest graduate school programs in the nation.

Rehabilitation Administration students examine all aspects of Rehabilitation Services, but with an emphasis on the administrative aspects of the health and human services fields: how to develop state and federal policies, how to successfully implement and deliver services to local communities and area health service providers, and more.

Teaching children and youth who have disabilities requires specialized skills and a strong desire to help others. Our Special Education program prepares teachers of children and youth who have mild to moderate disabilities in the areas of emotional disturbance, learning disabilities, and mental retardation. Our Early Childhood Special Education prepares teachers to work with young children with special needs.

Social Enterprise deals with important global issues such as health, education, civic engagement, human rights, economic development, and the environment. Those who choose the Social Enterprise major adapt principles from several distinct areas: Entrepreneurship, Nonprofit Administration, Management, Social Activism and Social Accountability and channel them as a way to make positive social change in the world.