National Programs

Illinois Association of 
Family, Career and Community 
Leaders of America

National programs help members complete projects and gain recognition on the local, state, and national level. Programs emphasize community service, peer education, teamwork, and planning.
Career Connection 
These six units focus students' projects on different aspects of career development.
  • 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 experiences
  • LINK UP to Jobs - Learn how to find and land a job
  • ACCESS SKILLS for Career Success - Practice being productive and promotable
  • INTEGRATE Work and Life - Manage interconnected roles in families, careers, and communities

 

Community Service Award
Recognizes chapters for outstanding community service projects. Members identify a specific community need and carry out a unique service project to meet it.  Community Service is learning. Students making time to look beyond themselves, see where help is needed, and find new avenues of education. Community Service is a vital and thriving part of FCCLA.  For some members community service projects are a prelude to lifelong service to the community.  Chapters can receive recognition and awards while helping their community.  

 

Dynamic Leadership
Dynamic leaders master six essentials of leadership.
  • Model good character
  • Solve problems
  • Foster positive relationships
  • Manage conflict
  • Build teams
  • Educate peers

 

FACTS (Families Acting for Community Traffic Safety) 
Youth-created FACTS projects relate to the following three topic areas.
  • Think SMART – promote attitudes and provide events that keep young people 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 the importance of safe driving habits, especially for less-experienced drivers


Families First
Families First teaches the concepts and skills necessary for a strong family life.  Through this program, members plan and carry out projects that help them become strong family members and address their family related concerns.  Members work on their own, in small groups or as a chapter.  There are five units:

  • 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)

 

Financial Fitness 
Youth-created Financial Fitness projects relate 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


Leaders At Work
Leaders at Work is a national program that recognizes young people who strengthen leadership skills on the job. Leaders at Work focuses on leadership skills in four categories - communication, interpersonal, management and entrepreneurship. Students may choose from a wide variety of projects and reporting techniques. Students plan and complete their own projects. There are six career areas that link learning to life:
  • 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


Japanese Exchange Program
Members who are sophomores and juniors in high school can earn full scholarships to spend six weeks with a Japanese family.  Participants can visit fascinating and beautiful sights, and learn more about Future Homemakers of Japan.  Applications are due to Youth for Understanding by January.  Semi-finalists are notified in April, and finalists are announced in May.


Power of One
Power of One is a self-directed national program that allows members to set their own goals, and achieve them through five different units.

  • A Better You
  • Family Ties
  • Working on Working
  • Take the Lead
  • Speak Out for FCCLA


STAR Events
Students Taking Action with Recognition (STAR) events are national competitive events that build proficiency and achievement in leadership and job-related skills. Most events have three levels of competition: junior and senior comprehensive, and senior occupational. State winners are
given the opportunity to compete at the National Leadership Meeting. Members may compete in the following events:
  • Applied Technology
  • Career Investigation
  • Chapter Service Project (Manual and Display)
  • Chapter Showcase (Manual and Display)
  • Culinary Arts
  • Early Childhood
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Focus on Children
  • Hospitality
  • Illustrated Talk
  • Interpersonal Communications
  • Job Interview
  • National Programs in Action
  • Parliamentary Procedure


Stop the Violence
 STOP the Violence - Students Taking on Prevention is a comprehensive, national FCCLA peer-to-peer outreach initiative that empowers young people to recognize, report and reduce the potential for youth violence in their schools and communities.   Through the program, FCCLA members use peer education (teens teaching teens) to -
  • empower students 
  • engage young people in efforts
  • Use peer education to increase
    youth awareness
  • Reduce the potential for youth violence in schools


Student Body
 Student Body is a peer education program that gets youth involved by developing and carrying out projects related to:

  • Eat Right
    Explore good nutrition, eating disorders, healthful snacks, supplements, 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.

 

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This page last revised:  07/27/05