About Us

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 central 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.

FCCLA currently has over 255,000 members nationwide and over 7,000 members in Indiana.  FCCLA was formerly known as FHA/HERO (Future Homemakers of America/Home Economics Related Occupations).  The name changed in 1999.