• FCCLA (Family, Career, and Community Leaders of America)

    Meeting Dates: Wednesdays after school (or during Refuel).

    Family, Career, and Community Leaders of America, Inc. is a nonprofit national Career and Technical Student Organization serving students in Family and Consumer Sciences education in public and private schools through grade 12. FCCLA is the only national career and technical student organization with the family as its central focus. Since 1945, FCCLA has involved more than nine million youth who 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 160,000 members in over 6,600 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.

     

    Member Requirements: Payment of $15.00 dues and enrollment (from a past school year or the current year) in any of the Human Services Academy courses. These include: Child Development, Family and Consumer Sciences, and courses from the Fashion pathway, and Food & Nutrition.

     

    FCCLA’s mission is 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 and Technical preparation

     

    Here at James Clemens High School we dedicate ou time and energy into suing the skills that we develop in our classes to improve our communities. In our recent past, we hosted a Thanksgiving meats/dessert fundraiser in which we used the proceeds to fund our projects and trips throughout the year. Our biggest project involves the students budgeting for and then buying groceries. Those groceries are then used for cooking meals for the Huntsville Salvation Army Community Kitchen. The JCHS chapter of FCCLA is passionate about our community service.