Family, Career, and Community Leaders of America

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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

FCCLA Logo

1 History
- 1.1 Mission Statement
2 Programs
- 2.1 STAR Events
3 Governance
4 Meetings
5 External links

[edit] History

FCCLA began on June 11, 1945 as Future Homemakers of America (FHA). The name of the organization was changed to Family, Career, and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA) in July 1999 at the National Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts.

FCCLA currently has over 220,000 members in nearly 7,000 chapters across all 50 states as well as in the District of Columbia, the Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico.

The headquarters are in Reston, VA.

This section is a stub. You can help by expanding it.

[edit] Mission Statement

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 vocational preparation.

[edit] Programs

FCCLA has a variety of programs serving families, careers, and communities.

Family
1. Families First
2. Japanese Exchange
3. FACTS
4. Financial Fitness
5. Power of One
6. STAR Events
7. Student Body
8. Dynamic Leadership
Career
1. Career Connection
2. Leaders at Work
3. STAR Events
4. Japanese Exchange
5. Power of One
6. Dynamic Leadership
Community
1. Community Service
2. FACTS
3. Japanese Exchange
4. Power of One
5. STAR Events
6. Dynamic Leadership
7. Students Taking on Prevention (STOP) the Violence

STAR Events Logo

[edit] STAR Events

STAR Events (Students Taking Action with Recognition) is a very popular, if not the most popular, national program incorporated into FCCLA.

National-level STAR Events
- Applied Technology
- Career Investigation
- Chapter Service Project (Display and Manual)
- Chapter Showcase (Display and Manual)
- Culinary Arts
- Early Childhood
- Entrepreneurship
- Focus on Children
- Hospitality
- Illustrated Talk
- Interpersonal Communications
- Job Interview
- National Programs in Action
- Parliamentary Procedure

Categories of Competition
- Junior (seventh grade through ninth grade members)
- Senior (tenth grade through twelfth grade members)
- Occupational (members who have completed an occupational family and consumer sciences course)

[edit] Governance

Ten national officers (students) are elected by the voting delegates at the annual National Leadership Meeting and together make up the National Executive Council. The National Board of Directors is composed of adult educators, adult community members, and four youth representatives. State associations and local chapters elect their own youth officers. State programs come under the direction of family and consumer sciences education staff. Chapter advisers are family and consumer sciences teachers.

The 2006-2007 National Executive Council includes these 10 officer positions, their holders, and their holder's home state:

President: Michael Wade Smith, Kansas
1^st Vice President: Christine Larson, Connecticut
Vice President of Community Service: Jordan Chlapecka, Arkansas
Vice President of Finance: Kasey Marie Hemphill, Washington
Vice President of Individual Programs: Greg Hundall, Utah
Vice President of Membership: Brittani Parker, Oklahoma
Vice President of Parliamentary Law: Jonathan Richter, Texas
Vice President of Peer Education: David DuVal, Virginia
Vice President of Public Relations: Phoenix Tage Patterson, Washington
Vice President of STAR Events: Katherine Hoffman, Missouri

The level of officers go as follows: National Officer = The top raking positions. Officers make and create programs for members to use. Officers in each region will also plan a cluster meeting. The greatest responsibility of a National officer is to plan the National Leadership Meeting.

State Officers = The key the membership of each state. Officers plan a State meeting, and attend National Leadership Meeting where they bring back information to the state.

Regional/District Officers = Membership in a certain area, plan a meeting to discuss Star Events and any other related information

Chapter officers = Officers work in their communities, to put in place programs that National, State and Regional officer put in place. This is the lowest ranking position.

[edit] Meetings

[edit] Chapter Meetings

Chapter Meetings include all the members of a certain chapter in the USA. There, they discuss current issues within the chapter. These usually take place within a school building.

[edit] Regional Meetings

Regional Meetings may also be called District Meetings. These are meetings where students within a geographical area may compete in STAR events and conduct business related to chapters in that area. District or regional STAR competition will result in groups or individual with a score above a set minimum (usually 50 or 70 out of 100 points) to the state STAR competition.

[edit] State Meetings

State Meetings are held in a large city within a state and they are where students present their projects and STAR Events for the chance to go onto the National Leadership Meeting. The only way to win the trip to the National Meeting is to be the best in your category (Such as Focus on Children, or Illustrated Talks) at state. These are usually held at the same city each year in your state.

[edit] National Leadership Meeting

Each year a National is held in a different city. National meeting is where thousands of FCCLA Members gather to compete with STAR events to get a Gold, Silver, Bronze metal. Members also go to bring back new and important information towards their state. National Officer are also picked during this and introduced during the final night of the meeting.

The National Leadership Meeting is held in a different US city each year. Some past and future National Leadership Meetings are:

2004: Chicago, Illinois
2005: San Diego, California
2006: Nashville, Tennessee
2007: Anaheim, California
2008: Orlando, Florida
2009: Nashville, Tennessee
2010: Chicago, Illinois
2011: Anaheim, California
2012: Orlando, Florida
2013: Nashville, Tennessee
2014: San Antonio, Texas

[edit] National Cluster Meetings

National Cluster Meetings are similar to the National Leadership Meetings, without the STAR competitions. The meetings begin on a Friday night and last through Saturday night. Several motivational-type speakers are featured. There are four of these held every year in November, taking place in different regions of the USA. Anyone can attend these meetings.