Get informed about the National Programs offered through FCCLA.  All chapters
who have completed a National Program should submit a Recognition Application,
which can be found on the National website, using the links below.  

Click on the National Program icon for the program you completed and open the
application at the bottom of the page.  The application must be completed entirely
online.  The deadline for the application is March 1st, 2010.  First place winners
receive $1,000, the runner-up will receive $500, and both will be recognized at the
National Leadership Conference this summer!

Every project makes a difference, and all chapters should take advantage of getting
recognition for their accomplishments!
Career Connection guides students to develop, plan, carry out, and evaluate projects that improve the quality of life in six units where students focus activities on different aspects of career development. Students can choose a unit, then plan and carry out related projects that strengthen their awareness of skills needed for careers.
Community Service guides students to develop, plan, carry out, and evaluate projects that improve the quality of life in their communities. Community Service helps young people build skills for family, career, and community roles; provides youth-centered learning experiences related to Family and Consumer Sciences Education; and encourages young people to develop the positive character traits of trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring, and citizenship.
Dynamic Leadership helps young people build leadership skills. It provides information, activities, and project ideas to help young people learn about leadership, recognize the lifelong benefits of leadership skills, practice leadership skills through FCCLA involvement and become strong leaders for families, careers, and communities.
Families Acting for Community Traffic Safety (FACTS) helps youth to learn the realities of traffic safety and discover that safety is a family matter. FACTS projects can reach peers, children, and adults with traffic safety messages and activities.
Families First is a peer education program through which youth gain a better understanding of how families work and learn skills to become strong family members. Its goals are to help youth become strong family members and leaders for today and tomorrow and strengthen the family as the basic unit of society.
Financial Fitness is a peer education program that involves youth teaching one another how to make, save, and spend money wisely. Through FCCLA's Financial Fitness program, youth plan and carry out projects that help them and their peers learn to become wise financial managers and smart consumers.
Japanese Exchange is a scholarship opportunity for FCCLA members to travel to Japan for four-to-six weeks as an exchange student. Experiences include regional orientation for scholarship recipients and parents, a Japanese tea ceremony, traditional Japanese foods, and/or climb up Mount Fuji with a Japanese brother or sister.
Leaders at Work recognizes members who create projects to strengthen leadership skills on the job. These skills contribute to success across a broad range of career fields. Leaders at Work motivates students to prepare for career success.
Power of One helps students find and use their personal power. Members set their own goals, work to achieve them, and enjoy the results. The skills members learn in Power of One help them now and in the future in school, with friends and family, in their future at college, and on the job.
STAR Events are no longer considered a National Program. Click on the Events tab above for more information concerning STAR Events.
STOP the Violence empowers youth with attitudes, skills, and resources in order to recognize, report, and reduce youth violence. FCCLA members use peer education to reach their peers with violence prevention education, recognize warning signs of potential youth violence, encourage young people to report troubling behavior, collaborate with school and community resources to address youth violence and develop and implement local action projects to reduce the potential for violence in their school.
Student Body is a peer education program that helps young people learn to eat right, be fit, and make healthy choices. Its goals are to help young people make informed, responsible decisions about their health provide youth opportunities to teach others and develop healthy lifestyles, as well as communication and leadership skills.
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