Family, Career, and Community Leaders of America, or FCCLA, is a career and technical student organization with family as its central focus. It empowers students from seventh to twelfth grade to make a positive change all around the nation. FCCLA prepares its members for the future by equipping them with the vital skills they need to improve and succeed in their families, careers, and communities. Learn more about the organization as a whole or skip straight to STAR Events and National Programs.
To promote personal growth and leadership development through Family and Consumer Sciences education. Focusing on the multiple roles of family member, wage earner and community leader, members develop skills for life through: character development, creative and critical thinking, interpersonal communication, practical knowledge, and career preparation.
We are the Family, Career, and Community Leaders of America. We face the future with warm courage and high hope.
For we have the clear consciousness of seeking old and precious values. For we are the builders of homes, homes for America's future, homes where living will be the expression of everything that is good and fair, homes where truth and love and security and faith will be realities, not dreams.
We are the Family, Career,and Community Leaders of America. We face the future with warm courage and high hope.
FCCLA takes student leadership to the next level as it is students who take part in shaping the organization and its future. At each level there is a group of student leaders selected from a pool of candidates through applications, tests, interviews, and/or speeches. This ranges all the way from local or chapter officers to the National Executive Council, which consists of ten highschoolers from all around the country elected to help run the national organization. There are eight officers at the state level and a varying number at the district level (depending on the district). Nebraska is one of the few states that also has state peer officers, which are leaders that help run things at the state level but are a step below actual state officers, focusing more on national programs and peer education.
There are a wide range of activities associated with FCCLA. The organization focuses on volunteer work, leadership conferences, competitions, and more. To find out more about what one can do in FCCLA, visit our Activities page or our STAR Events and National Programs page.