- Sedro-Woolley High School
- FCCLA-General Information
Family, Career & Community Leaders of America
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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: