1. IOWA FCCLA Peer Education
Teens Teaching Teens

2. Teams The 4 peer education teams are: Families First Financial Fitness
Student Body
Public Relations
Each team is represented by a current State Officer.
Peer Education teams teach peers how to make better choices.
Each team has a central focus.

3. Families First
Families First is an FCCLA national peer education program through which youth gain a better understanding of how families work and learn skills to become strong family members.
There are 5 units for the team.
These units are guidelines for the team to create projects to teach people about families.

4. Families First Units The 5 units for Families First are:
Families Today - Understand and celebrate families
You-Me-Us - Strengthen family relationships
Meet the Challenge - Overcome obstacles together
Balancing Family and Career - Manage multiple responsibilities
Parent Practice - Learn to nurture children

5. Financial Fitness
Financial Fitness is an FCCLA national peer education program that involves youth teaching one another how to make, save, and spend money wisely.
Through FCCLA’s Financial Fitness program, youth plan and carry out projects that help them and their peers learn to become wise financial managers and smart consumers.
There are 5 units for Financial Fitness to help the team create projects to help people manage their finances.

6. Financial Fitness Units
The 5 units for Financial Fitness are:
Banking Basics - Conquer bank accounts, credit, and investments
Cash Control - Track and plan personal spending
Making Money - Sharpen on-the-job financial fitness
Consumer Clout - Become a savvy spender
Financing Your Future - Apply financial skills to real life

7. “NEW” Student Body
Student Body is an FCCLA national peer education program that helps young people discover and practice how to be healthy, fit, real, and resilient.
Student Body has 4 units that help the team inform peers of healthy choices.

8. “New” Student Body Goals
Help young people make informed, responsible decisions about their health
Provide youth opportunities to teach others
Encourage youth to develop and continue healthy lifestyles, as wel as communication and leadership

9. Student Body Units The 4 units for Student Body are:
The Healthy You – Explore nutrition, healthy snacks, sleep, healthy habits, consequences of negative behaviors, and more
The Fit You – Take action related to lifelong fitness, injury prevention, relaxation, and more.

10. Student Body Units
The Real You – Choose a helathy lifestyle by tamin fears, being aware of disorders, understanding family history, and more.
The Resilient You – Focus on mood choice, emotional intelligence, positive relationships, body image, stress management, and more

11. Public Relations
Public Relations team members will be trained on how to “maximize” the flow of information between FCCLA and the public! Public relations team members will help “brand” FCCLA across Iowa by using topics of public interest and news items that continue to spread the goals of FCCLA. Common activities include speaking at conferences, working with the press/media and helping publicize the Iowa FCCLA website through the use of YouTube and Facebook to energize members statewide

12. Responsibilities of a Peer Education Team member
Complete three projects by due dates
December 1
January 15
February 26
Complete online project submission

13. Recognition
During State Leadership Conference an Award of Excellence certificate and pin will be presented to team members that completed all projects by the designated due dates
Award of Completion will be presented to team will be presented to team members that completed all projects, but did not meet the designated due dates.

14. Any Questions? Contact Janet Mann Iowa Peer Education Team Coordinator