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What is FCCLA?
F amily
C areer and
C ommunity
L eaders of
A merica
What is FCCLA?
Career and technical student organziation (CTSO)
FCCLA is very unique – we are the only CTSO that has family as the central focus.
Who can join?
Students who have had a family and consumer sciences class
Students who currently have a FCS class.
This means you!
FCS classes at MCHS include: Life Skills Foods & Nutrition Child Development
Services I Parenting / Child
Development Relationships
Look at the numbers
Today, over 220,000 members in nearly 7,000 chapters are active in a network of associations in 50 states, plus the District of Columbia, Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.
What we stand for
Tagline The Ultimate Leadership Experience
MottoTowards new horizons
Symbols
Flower Red rose
- symbolizes a desire for beauty in everyday living
Colors Red and white
A club is born
In 1917, President Woodrow Wilson signed the first national vocational education act into law This law started vocational programs such
as home economics and agriculture education
In 1945 a group of people met in Chicago and selected a name and a constitution for a national student home economics organization.
A club is born
The first programs were called Home Economics
Home Economics programs are now called Family and Consumer Sciences.
We don’t just cook and sew
In 1999 the Future Homemakers of America (FHA) officially changed its name to Family, Career and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA).
They changed the name to better reflect the mission and purpose of the organization.
Affiliation
To be affiliated means that a local chapter of FCCLA has sent in its national and state dues along with the names of all the people in that local chapter.
Kentucky was the very first state-affiliated association.
EXTRA! EXTRA!
Read all about FCCLA in the national magazine Teen Times, first published in 1945.
Be Part of It!: Membership Campaign
RECRUIT, RETAIN, RECOGNITION
National ProgramsMake your Career Connection with this FCCLA program and learn how to explore career pathways and skills for success in families, careers, and communities.
Take action in your community and discover the difference you
can makeTry new leadership experiences and investigate exciting topics through interactive participation in various activities.
National Programs
Discover how you can strengthen family relationships
Put the brakes on impaired driving and traffic crashes.Through peer education help
your friends arrive alive and lower the number one cause of death for youth in
America.
Manage your $! Use this program to help you make, save, and spend your money to be financially fit.
National ProgramsWin a scholarship to travel to Japan, experience another culture, and develop independence while living with a Japanese host family.
Put yourself in charge of your future! Enhance your job skills and gain
valuable on-site work experience with FCCLA’s Leaders at Work program.
Give yourself the power to make a positive change in your families, careers, and communities, one goal at a time.
National Programs
Build proficiency and achievement in leadership and job related skills.
Empower youth with attitudes, skills, and
resources in order to recognize, report, and reduce
youth violence.
Eat right, be fit, and make healthy choices
Be a STARBe a STARSTAR EVENTS: National FCCLA
Program Available to Members which enables you to work in group, work alone, and compete against a set criteria
• STAR stands for:
SStudents
TTaking
AAction withRRecognition
STAR Event Categories Include:STAR Event Categories Include:
• Applied technology• Career investigation• Chapter service
project display/ manual
• Chapter showcase display/ manual
• Culinary Arts• Early Childhood
• Entrepreneurship• Focus on children• Hospitality• Illustrated talk• Interpersonal
Communications• Job Interview• Parliamentary
Procedure
Who is your advisor?
FCCLA advisors are teachers of family and consumer sciences.
That’s me!
National Headquarters
1910 Association DriveReston, Virginia 20191
Phone: 703-476-4900Fax: 703-860-2713
If you have any questions…
Feel free to ask me – I’m a former state officer and Barren County HS chapter president!
Barren County FCCLA
2005 State Meeting
2005 National MeetingSan Diego, California
2005 State Leadership Camp
2006 State Meeting
2006 State Meeting
