FCCLA - Family, Career, Community Leaders of America, founded in 1945, is a dynamic and effective national student organization that helps young men and women become leaders and address important personal, family, work, and societal issues through family and consumer science education. In the 2021-2022 school year, Georgia FCCLA had 26,049 members in 274 chapters.

Chapter projects focus on a variety of youth concerns including teen pregnancy, parenting, family relationships, substance abuse, peer pressure, environment, nutrition and fitness, inter-generational communication and career education.

Involvement in FCCLA offers members the opportunity to expand their leadership potential and develop skills for life - planning, goal setting, and problem solving.

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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.

Tradition

Toward New Horizons
Our Colors are red and white. Red symbolizes 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 help individuals build a better tomorrow.

Our Logo: As the millennium turns, so does the version of the FCCLA logo. This futuristic logo may not hold the traditions of the past logo, but it shows that FCCLA is a dynamic, active organization bound for the future. The dominate collegiate lettering articulates a focus on education and student leadership. The logo is red, the color of the rose as a sign of strength. The swooping arrow arch is a common motif in today's designs and definitely embodies an active organization that moves toward new arenas. With it's space-like feel, this logo is sure to last through the next fifty years, but will always be linked to the time when FHA at the turn of the century changed to FCCLA.

The Red Rose represents the organization because it gives joy through its beauty and fragrance. It symbolizes a desire for beauty in everyday living.

Our Purpose

• 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, family and consumer sciences careers and related occupations.

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 love and security 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.

Direction

FCCLA is the only in school student organization with the family as its central focus.

FCCLA is a career and technical education student organization that functions as an integral part of the family and consumer science education curriculum and operates within the school system.

FCCLA provides opportunities for active student participation at local, state, and national levels.

Membership

FCCLA has a national membership of over 175,000 young men and women in more than 5,300 chapters. FCCLA chapters span all 50 states including Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. Since its founding in 1945, FCCLA has involved more than nine million youth. Former members and advisers are eligible to become members of Alumni & Associates.

Governance

Ten national officers (students) are elected by voting delegates at the annual National Leadership Conference and together make up the National Executive Council.

The National Board of Directors is composed of adult representatives from education and business and four youth representatives.

State associations and local chapters elect their own youth officers. State programs come under the supervision of family and consumer education staff. Chapter advisors are family and consumer science teachers.