FCCLA helps students...

• Develop career skills and learn to balance career and family responsibilities
• Strengthen home and family life
• Prepare for community living as responsible citizens
• Experience the connection between career and technical and academic skills
• Improve self-esteem
• Practice and apply creative and critical thinking
• Understand themselves and their relationships with others
• Develop a personal leadership style
• Identify concerns, make decision and carry out activities
• Experience the satisfaction of helping others
• Observe Family and Consumer Sciences-related careers
• Gain recognition for accomplishments
• Build supportive relationships with teachers in a less formal atmosphere
• Achieve established performance standards and competencies

FCCLA helps schools...

• Motivate and improve students' attitudes twoard school and learning
• Facilitate the transition from school to career
• Demonstrate how academic lessons are applied through FACSE programs
• Integrate life skills into FACES classes, making school and life relevant to one another
• Gain community support for programs
• Prepare employable citizens
• Support school activities
• Demonstrate classroom learning in the community 
• Build support systems for students

There are a number of programs for students to get involved with as a member of FCCLA including: