title: FACS
text: # FACS
  
  FACS or FaCS may refer to:
  
  ## Organizations
  
  ### Australia
  
  * Department of Family and Community Services (Australia), an Australian Government department (1998–2006)
  * Family and Community Services (South Australia), a former South Australian Government agency
  * New South Wales Department of Family and Community Services, a former New South Wales Government Department (2011–2019)
  
  ### Elsewhere
  
  * First Assembly Christian School, Memphis, Tennessee
  * Formal Aspects of Computing Science, a British Computer Society Specialist Group
  
  ## Post-nominal titles
  
  * Fellow of the Australian Computer Society
  * Fellow of the American College of Surgeons
  
  ## Science and technology
  
  * Fluorescence-activated cell sorting, applied in flow cytometry
  * Facial Action Coding System, a procedure to systematically describe human facial expressions (successfully adapted for several other species)
  * Families and Children Study, a longitudinal study in Great Britain
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * Family and consumer science, a field of study that deals with the economics and management of the home, family and community
  