The ultimate Leadership Experience! Family, Career & Community Leaders of America (FCCLA) provides a wealth of benefits for students, Family and Consumer Science Education programs, schools and communities through student planned and led projects.

Family, Career and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA) is a dynamic and effective national student organization that helps young women and men become leaders and address important personal, family, work, and social issues through the Family and Consumer Science Education department. It has involved more than ten million youth since its founding in 1945. They offer a broad spectrum of programs choices including individual and team events. Students can also choose to participate in regional, state and national competitions.

Any student who has taken a course in Family and Consumer Science Education or a related course.

It plays a role in developing youth leadership through classroom integration of FCCLA national programs, competitive events, and service learning programs.

Personal growth and leadership development are at the forefront. By completing projects for service learning and participating in competitive events, students gain important leadership skills they take with them for life.

FCCLA provides an opportunity to learn and lead. Competitions range from individual to team opportunities.

STAR Events (Students Taking Action with Recognition) are com-petitive events in which members are recognized for proficiency and achievement in chapter and individual projects, leadership skills, and career preparation. STAR Events offer individual skill development and appli-cation of learning through the following activities:

• Cooperative - teams work to accomplish specific goals

• Individualized - an individual member works alone to accomplish specific goals

• Competitive - individual or team performance measured by an established set of criteria.

Family and Consumer Science Knowledge Bowl

• Personal Finance

• Consumer Rights & Responsibilities (to include Family, Career & Community Studies)

• Technology (to include Fashion & Housing Design)

• Health & Safety (to include Food Sciences & Nutrition and Early Childhood & Human Development)

• Environment (to include Hospitality, Tourism & Recreation)

• FCCLA Knowledge

Other FCCLA Contests

• Consumer Math Challenge

• Culinary Math Challenge

• Early Childhood Challenge

• FCCLA Knowledge Challenge

• Hospitality, Tourism and Recreation Challenge

• Nutrition Challenge

• Science in FACS Challenge

• Culinary Chicken Fabrication

• Culinary Food Art

• Culinary Knife Skills

• Fashion Sketch

• FCCLA Creed Speaking & Interpretation

• Impromptu Speaking

• Speak out for FCCLA

• Technology in Teaching

• Toys That Teach

• Skills Demonstration Events

FCCLA Website

Service learning brings community service and classroom learning together, FCCLA facilities efforts through chapter, state, and national activities. National programs highlight opportunities for chapters to build unique service learning projects for their own communities around the FCCLA Mission that brings together projects that focus on one area of need. National programs include:

• Families First: Discover how you can strengthen family relationships through FCCLA's national peer education program.

• Career Connection: Learn how to explore career pathways and skills for success in families, careers, and communities.

• Student Body: The Healthy You, The Fit You, The Real You, and The Resilient You.

• FACTS (Families Acting for Community Traffic Safety):

  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. 

• Financial Fitness: Manage your money! Use this program to help you make, save, and spend your money wisely to be financially fit. 

• Leadership Service in Action: Take Action in your community and discover the difference you can make. 

• Power of 1:

  Give yourself the power to make a positive change in your families, careers, and communities, one goal at a time. 

• STOP (Students Taking on Prevention) Violence:

  Empower youth with attitudes, skills, and resources to recognize, report, and reduce youth violence. 

National Outreach Program is a national community service activity that gives our state delegations/ members opportunities to make a united impact concerning a need. Local chapters and members fundraise and collect items from schools and commu-nities through service. The goal of this project is to have each student get actively involved in making a difference by uniting together with the National Outreach Project. FCCLA wants members to see and know first hand that even a small effort made by many can have a huge and positive impact on others.