2. Family, Career and Community Leaders of America, Inc.
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. (Revised July 1999)

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

4. National Programs

5. Career Connection
The FCCLA Career Connection program guides youth to link their options and skills for success in families, careers, and communities. Through individual, cooperative, and competitive activities, members— discover their strengths, target career goals, and initiate a plan for achieving the lifestyle they desire.
Career Connection Units:
Career Connection guides students to develop, plan, carry out, and evaluate projects. The projects improve the quality of life in six (6) units. Students focus activities on different aspects of career development. Students can choose a unit, then plan and carry out related projects that strengthen their awareness of skills needed for careers. PLUG IN to Careers — Understand work and the Career Connection Program
SIGN ON to the Career Connection — Link personal interests, skills, and goals to career clusters
PROGRAM Career Steps — Prepare with education, leadership, and work experience
LINK UP to Jobs — Learn to find and land a job
ACCESS SKILLS for Career Success— Practice being productive on the job and promotable
INTEGRATE Work and Life — Manage interconnected roles in families, careers, and communities.

6. Leaders at Work
Leaders at Work recognizes FCCLA members who create projects to strengthen leadership skills on the job. These skills contribute to success across a broad range of career fields. In conjunction with the Career Connection national program, Leaders at Work motivates students to prepare for career success.
Youth learn leadership skills in specific career units and create Leaders at Work projects to accomplish personal goals in one (1) of six (6) career units related to Family and Consumer Sciences education: Early Childhood, Education, and Services
Food Production and Services
Hospitality, Tourism, and Recreation
Housing, Interiors, and Furnishings
Textiles and Apparel
Family and Consumer Sciences Education

7. Community Service
The FCCLA Community Service program guides students to develop, plan, carry out, and evaluate projects that improve the quality of life in their communities. Community Service helps young people build skills for family, career, and community roles; provides youth-centered learning experiences related to Family and Consumer Sciences education; and encourages young people to develop the positive character traits of trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring, and citizenship. Community Service projects can be a great “first step” for less-experienced advisers, chapters, or members. They involve fun, hands-on activities that motivate and involve students while offering a sense of accomplishment and camaraderie. Projects range from simple, one-time efforts to multi-faceted, ongoing programs. Here’s an example of the range of projects that might grow out of a single concern – to clean up the community.

8. Dynamic Leadership
The FCCLA Dynamic Leadership helps young people build leadership skills. It provides information, activities, and project ideas to help young people: learn about leadership recognize the lifelong benefits of leadership skills practice leadership skills through FCCLA involvement become strong leaders for families, careers, and communities.
Dynamic leaders are persons of good character. They tell the truth, keep promises, and have the moral courage to stand up for their beliefs, even when it is hard to do so. They respect others and themselves. They accept responsibility and do what they are supposed to do. Dynamic leaders are fair and play by the rules. They care about others and are considerate and forgiving. They cooperate and build a better community.
Take time to ponder what is truly important in life. Seek wisdom from others you respect. Then, commit to applying these priorities to your dynamic leadership in families, careers, and communities.
Dynamic Leadership Units:
Dynamic leaders master the six essentials of leadership:
Model good character
Solve problems
Foster positive relationships
Manage conflict
Build teams
Educate peers 
These leadership essentials are sparked by studies in Family and Consumer Sciences education. They are ignited by experience with hands-on FCCLA projects and leadership roles and are fueled by continued growth and learning to fan a lifelong flame of Dynamic Leadership.
Early experiences with the essentials of Dynamic Leadership build the fire for a lifetime of strong leadership in families, careers, and communities.

9. FACTS
Families Acting for Community Traffic Safety (FACTS) is a national peer education program through which students strive to save lives educating adults and youth about traffic safety and supporting enforcement of local rules and regulations regarding community traffic safety.
Through FACTS, FCCLA members create projects that strive to save lives through sober driving, seat belt use, safe driving habits, becoming the spokesperson for their safety, and bridging the gap between youth and adults to understand the importance of driver education and safety. Traffic safety is a family affair. Children first learn basic safety skills and attitudes in families. Crashes deeply affect families. FCCLA members can help families emphasize safety and avoid related concerns.  
FACTS is a program that can excite students about learning, sharpen their critical thinking skills, and provide many opportunities for hands-on, student-directed lessons. By coordinating the FACTS peer education efforts with efforts through academic learning, projects can be service learning opportunities for FCCLA leaders.
FACTS Units:
Think SMART — Promote attitudes and provide events that keep youth from driving when under the influence of alcohol and other drugs.
Buckle UP — Promote the benefits and safe use of seat belts, child safety seats, booster seats, and air bags.
Arrive Alive — Promote safe driving habits, especially for less-experienced drivers.
Speak Up — Promote the empowerment of teens to speak up for their safety.
Bridge the Gap — Promote conversation and training for parents of teens as they work together to enhance traffic safety.

10. Families First
The FCCLA Families First national peer education program through which youth gain a better understanding of how families work and learn skills to become strong family members. Its goals are to: help youth become strong family members and leaders for today and tomorrow and strengthen the family as the basic unit of society.
Families First Units:
To help members focus their projects, Families First offers five units. Members may complete projects in one or several units. There is no particular order to them; although, "Families Today" might be a good place to start. It covers topics that provide a general overview of families and related issues:
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.

11. Financial Fitness
The FCCLA Financial Fitness national peer education program 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.
 The goal of Financial Fitness is to inform and inspire teens to sharpen their skills in money management, consumerism, and financial planning. Although the income of your typical teen is limited, they tend to spend a tremendous amount of money. This program will help students learn to manage their money wisely. Teens who learn to handle their finances will become adults who know how to manage their money in order to build better lives for themselves and their families and to strengthen the economy.
Financial Fitness Goals:
Inform and inspire teens to sharpen their skills in money management, consumerism, and financial planning.
Create a national network of young people who use teen-to-teen communications to share information.
Provide teenagers with an opportunity to develop communication and leadership skills by being peer educators.
Financial Fitness Units:
Each youth-created Financial Fitness project relates to one of the following five units:
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.

12. STOP the Violence
The FCCLA Students’ Taking On Prevention (STOP) the Violence program empowers youth with attitudes, skills, and resources in order to recognize, report, and reduce youth violence.  
Violence in today's schools is too often a headline in the national news. Whether it is fighting, making threats, or bullying, violence has forced school officials to take drastic steps to address this concern. Millions of dollars have been spent on metal detectors, hidden cameras in the classrooms and hallways, and security guards. Dollars spent on security measures such as these are not spent on additional teachers, salaries, advanced technology, and facilities. But what can the students themselves do to STOP the Violence?
FCCLA members use peer education to:
reach their peers with violence prevention education
recognize warning signs of potential youth violence
encourage young people to report troubling behavior
collaborate with school and community resources to address youth violence
develop and implement local action projects to reduce the potential for violence in their school.

13. Student Body
The FCCLA Student Body national peer education program helps young people learn to eat right, be fit, and make healthy choices. Its goals are to: help young people make informed, responsible decisions about their health, provide youth opportunities to teach others, and develop healthy lifestyles, as well as communication and leadership skills.
The teen years are an ideal time to establish healthy attitudes and habits to last a lifetime. Unfortunately, many of our youth are not physically fit, have poor eating habits, and are often bothered by a lack of self-esteem.  Student Body gives teens the facts and incentives they need to build a healthy body, both today and in the future.
Student Body Units:
To help members focus their projects, Student Body addresses three units.
Members may complete projects in one or several units:
Eat Right — Explore good nutrition, eating disorders, healthy snacks, supplements, vegetarianism, and more
Be Fit — Take action related to lifelong exercise habits, obesity, sports training, and other topics
Make Healthy Choices— Choose a positive lifestyle by avoiding drugs, alcohol, and tobacco; managing stress; building self esteem; and practicing good character.

14. Power of One
Power of One helps students find and use their personal power. Members set their own goals, work to achieve them, and enjoy the results. The skills members learn in Power of One help them now and in the future in school, with friends and family, in their future at college, and on the job.
Have you ever thought about a special goal? Maybe you would like to develop better study habits, cope with a physical challenge, get along with a sibling, improve job skills, become a leader – or any other personal goal. Power of One is for You! You select the goals most important to you, then create a plan of action to meet them.
Power of One Units:
Power of One gives youth the POWER to fulfill their dreams by creating self-directed projects that focus on:
A Better You — Improve personal traits
Family Ties — Get along better with family members
Working on Working — Explore work options, prepare for a career, or sharpen skills useful in business
Take the Lead — Develop leadership qualities
Speak Out for FCCLA — Tell others about positive experiences in FCCLA.

15. STAR Events
STAR Events (Students Taking Action with Recognition) are competitive events in which members are recognized for proficiency and achievement in chapter and individual projects, leadership skills, and career preparation. STAR Events offer individual skill development and application of learning through the following activities:
cooperative – teams work to accomplish specific goals
individualized – an individual member works alone to accomplish specific goals
competitive – individual or team performance measured by an established set of criteria.

16. List of STAR http://www.fcclainc.org/content/star-event-descriptions/
Advocacy*
Early Childhood*
Job Interview
Applied Technology
Entrepreneurship
Leadership
Career Investigation
Environmental Ambassador
Life Event Planning
Chapter Service Project
National Programs in Action
Fashion Construction
Display
Fashion Design
Nutrition and Wellness
Focus on Children
Parliamentary Procedure
Food Innovations
Manual
Hospitality, Tourism, and
Chapter Showcase Display
Promote and Publicize FCCLA!
Recreation
Recycle and Redesign
Chapter Showcase Manual
Illustrated Talk
Teach and Train*
Interior Design
Culinary Arts*
Interpersonal Communications

17. FCCLA Planning Process
Identify Concerns
brainstorm concerns
evaluate listed concerns
narrow to one workable idea or concern
Set a Goal    
get a clear mental picture of what you want to accomplish
write it down
evaluate it
Form a Plan
plan how to achieve goal
decide who, what, where, when, why and how
Act
carry out project
Follow Up
evaluate project
thank people involved
recognize participants

18. Websites
National FCCLA ND FCCLA www2.edutech.nodak.edu/fccla/ Facebook