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
Motto
Towards 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 stateaffiliated 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 Programs
Make 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 make
Try 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 Programs
Win 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 STAR
STAR 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:
Students
Taking
Action with
Recognition
STAR Event Categories Include:
• Applied technology
• Career investigation
• Chapter service
project display/
manual
• Chapter showcase
display/ manual
• Culinary Arts
• Early Childhood
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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 FCCLA
Kentucky FCCLA
National Headquarters
1910 Association Drive
Reston, Virginia 20191
Phone: 703-476-4900
Fax: 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 Meeting
San Diego, California
2005 State Leadership Camp
2006 State Meeting
2006 State Meeting