Our 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 of FCCLA
- 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 assuming responsibility.
- To prepare for multiple roles of men and women in today's society.
- To promote Family and Consumer Sciences and related occupations.*
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 security and love 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.*
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The Focus of FCCLA
FCCLA is focused on family. It encourages students to talk to their families and get a tighter grasp on their role/place in their family. It also helps students to become more confident and outgoing and ready to be a strong leader in their community. So basically, FCCLA is the ultimate leadership experience!
Leadership Experience |
FCCLA is the ultimate leadership experience. It helps countless students to become confident leaders that are capable of changing the world for the better. Through real life experiences FCCLA gives students an accurate idea of what being a true leader is like and how they can be a young leader in their community. This helps prepare students for a strong, successful career later on in life.
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FCCLA colorsThe Red suggests strength, courage, and determination, personal qualities leading to happiness through a positive self-image. White symbolizes sincerity of purpose and integrity of action, qualities that will help individuals build a better tomorrow.*
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FCCLA mottoToward New Horizons* FCCLA members are always working toward new horizons in FACS education!
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fccla flowerThe FCCLA flower is the red rose. The red rose represents the organization because it gives joy through it's beauty and fragrance. It symbolizes a desire for beauty in everyday living.
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*information taken from https://fcclainc.org/about