About FCCLA

Family Career and Community Leaders of America, FCCLA, is a nonprofit national career and technical student organization for young men and women in Family and Consumer Sciences education in public and private school through grade 12. FCCLA is the only national career and technical student organization with the family as its central focus. Since 1945, FCCLA members have been making a difference in their families, careers and communities by addressing important personal, work and societal issues through Family and Consumer Sciences education. Today over 225,000 members in nearly 7,000 chapters are active in a network of associations in 50 states as well as in the District of Columbia, the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.
 
FCCLA offers a variety of programs to help youth experience the Ultimate Leadership Experience.  FCCLA Saves is an outreach of the FCCLA Financial Fitness program in partnership with America Saves.  Financial Fitness is a national FCCLA peer education program that involves youth teaching other young people how to make, save, and spend money wisely. Through FCCLA's Financial Fitness program, young people plan and carry out projects that help them and their peers learn to become wise financial managers and smart consumers.