FCCLA
About FCCLA
Family, Career and Community Leaders of America is a nonprofit national Career and Technical Student Organization for young men and women in Family and Consumer Sciences education in public and private school through grade 12. Everyone is part of a family, and FCCLA is the only national Career and Technical Student Organization with the family as its focus. Since 1945, FCCLA members have been making a difference in their families, careers, and communities by addressing important personal, work and societal issues through Family and Consumer Sciences education.
Today, over 220,000 members in nearly 7,000 chapters are active in a network of associations in 50 states as well as in the District of Columbia, the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. Chapter projects focus on a variety of youth concerns including teen violence and career exploration. Involvement in FCCLA offers members the opportunity to expand in their leadership potential and develop skills for life--planning, goal setting, problem solving, decisison making and interpersonal communications--necessary in the home and workplace.