Since 1945, Family, Career and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA) is a national organization for students who have taken or are currently taking an Family and Consumer Sciences (FCS) course in public or private education. FCCLA provides student intra-curricular resources and opportunities to learn about and pursue careers that support a family. FCCLA members have always worked to make a difference in their families, careers, and communities by identifying and acting on personal, work, and societal issues through FCS education. 

Officially, FCCLA has over 200,000 affiliated members across 4,900 chapters throughout 46 states, the District of Columbia, the American Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico. FCCLA allows students and their advisors to focus on a variety of youth concerns.

FCCLA gives members the opportunity to develop strong interpersonal communication skills for life- planning, goal setting, problem solving, decision making- which are much needed in the home and workplace. 

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.