Family. Career and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA) is a dynamic and effecitve national students organization that helps young men and women become leaders and address important personal, fmaily, work, and societal issues through Family and COnsumer Sciences education, or related courses as determined by the state Departemtn of Education. FCCLA has more tha 190,000 members and nearly 6,500 chapters from 50 states associations, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. The Organization had involved more than ten million youth since its founding in 1945.
Any student who has taken a course in Fmaily and Consumer Sciences or a related course as determined by the state Department of Education through grade 12 is eligible for active membership in a organized chapter within their school.
