FCCLA

ABOUT FCCLA

The Family, Career and Community Leaders of America, Inc. (FCCLA) is a nonprofit national Career and Technical Student Organization (CTSO) for young men and women in family and consumer sciences education in public and private schools through grade 12.

Everyone is a part of a family, and FCCLA is the only nation CTSO with the family at 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. Today, over 175,000 members are active in a network of associations in 50 states in addition to the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. Chapter projects focus on a variety of youth concerns, including parenting, family relationships, substance abuse, peer pressure, sustainability, nutrition and fitness, teen violence, and career preparation.

FCCLA Mission

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
Career preparation

FCCLA Creed

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.

This year, FCCLA will be celebrating its 75th anniversary with the 2019-2020 theme "Your Story." True to FCCLA's central focus of the family, we rely on our FCCLA family of the past, present, and future to share "Your Story" in helping us write OUR Story as we continue to impact family, careers, and communities across America.

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