This update of the 1998 Plan for the 21st Century was designed to augment the California Community College Family and Consumer Sciences in the 21st Century packet, produced in 1996. It summarizes a variety of activities, products and events that have taken place over the past two years, and suggests resources and contacts for learning more about model programs and innovations. Priorities include improved curriculum and delivery systems, Partnerships for Excellence with students, staff development, integration and coordination programs, marketing, promotion and networking, articulation -2+2+2-, improved advocacy skills, aggressive analysis, and alignment of programs with school-to-career, CalWORKs, and economic development. A section on subject-specific priorities and strategies outlines the following disciplines: fashion, interior design/merchandising, lifespan-child development, nutrition and foods and hospitality. Other sections include Assessment of SCANS: Teaching Life Management in California Community Colleges; The Role of Life Management in Welfare Reform, and Innovative, Exemplary and Model Practices, which covers the above-listed disciplines. (Contains 19 references.) (AS)