Who We Are

Family, Career and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA) is a nonprofit national Career and Technical Student Organization (CTSO) for students in Family and Consumer Sciences (FCS) education in public and private schools. FCCLA offers intra-curricular resources and opportunities for students to pursue careers that support families. 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.

With over 255,000 student members in across 5,300 chapters in the United States, Puerto Rico, and America Samoa, the FCCLA family continues to expand and thrive, fostering a vibrant community of passionate individuals committed to making a difference. The work of FCCLA helps students and teachers focus on various youth concerns, including parenting, family relationships, substance abuse, peer pressure, sustainability, nutrition and fitness, teen violence, and career preparation across six Career Clusters. Involvement in FCCLA offers members the opportunity to expand their leadership potential and develop skills for life—planning, goal setting, problem-solving, decision making, and interpersonal communication—necessary in the home and workplace.

You can learn even more about the organization by visiting the National FCCLA website at http://www.fcclainc.org/about.

What We Offer

FCCLA is a dynamic organization with something that truly fits everyone. Whether it’s involvement in Competitive Events, National Programs, community service, and leadership development, members and chapters can select the components of their own Program of Work that meet their needs.

  • Involvement in Competitive Events programs offers members the opportunity to expand their leadership potential and develop skills necessary for families, communities, and workplaces. Members can demonstrate knowledge and skills learned in FCS courses by competing in these events. This includes Skill Demonstration Events, STAR Events, FCCLA/Knowledge Matters Virtual Business Challenge, and the FCCLA/LifeSmarts Knowledge Bowl.
  • National Programs provide opportunities for integration into the FCS classroom through topics from career preparation and skills for success to becoming financially fit to empowering youth to assess, educate, and advocate for change.
  • Leadership development occurs throughout everything that FCCLA does. Students can engage locally or at the District, State, and National levels to build their leadership skills. Whether it’s competing in a STAR Event, serving as a State Officer, or organizing a local community service project, students are building their skills to lead within their families, communities, and future workplaces.

Check out this Nebraska FCCLA Flow Chart that highlights what’s available through 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, and career preparation.

Purposes

  1. To provide opportunities for personal development and preparation for adult life
  2. To strengthen the function of the family as a basic unit of society
  3. To encourage democracy through cooperative action in the home and community
  4. To encourage individual and group involvement in helping achieve global cooperation and harmony
  5. To promote greater understanding between youth and adults
  6. To provide opportunities for making decisions and for assuming responsibilities.
  7. To prepare for the multiple roles of men and women in today’s society
  8. To promote Family and Consumer Sciences and related occupations

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.

Membership

In Nebraska, over 2,500 youth are actively engaged in FCCLA chapters representing nearly 100 schools. FCCLA has a national membership of over 255,000 secondary and postsecondary members in over 5,300 chapters. There are 47 state associations including Puerto Rico and America Samoa. Since its founding in 1945, FCCLA has involved more than nine million youth. Former members are eligible to become members of Alumni & Associates.

1946 Nebraska Charter Application