What is FCCLA?
Tennessee FCCLA is a student-led Career and Technical Student Organization (CTSO) that prepares middle school and high school students for success in the human services, education, design, and hospitality fields. Through hands-on learning, leadership development, and career exploration, Tennessee FCCLA empowers students to build the technical skills, confidence, and experience needed for their future careers.
Tennessee FCCLA is a state association of Family, Career, and Community Leaders of America, which is recognized by the National Coordinating Council of Career and Technical Student Organizations and the Tennessee Department of Education. As part of Tennessee's Career and Technical Education (CTE) system, Tennessee FCCLA supports classroom instruction by connecting students to real-world workforce opportunities and professional pathways.
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A Classroom-Connected Experience
FCCLA is embedded in Tennessee’s human services, education, design, and hospitality programs as an intra-curricular organization that directly supports classroom instruction. By integrating FCCLA into CTE courses, educators give students a platform to apply what they learn in school to meaningful, future-focused opportunities that extend beyond the classroom.
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Building the Future Workforce
Tennessee FCCLA offers a wide range of programs designed to equip students for careers. These include competitive events aligned with real-world workforce and leadership skills, leadership conferences at the regional, state, and national levels, service-learning projects, and professional networking opportunities. Each of these programs helps students explore potential career paths, develop essential soft skills, and gain experience that supports their future goals.
Our Mission
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 preparation.
Our Purpose
To provide opportunities for personal development and preparation for adult life.
To strengthen the function of the family as a basic unit of society.
To encourage democracy through cooperative action in the home and community.
To encourage individual and group involvement in helping achieve global cooperation and harmony.
To promote greater understanding between youth and adults.
To provide opportunities for making decisions and for assuming responsibilities.
To prepare for the multiple roles of men and women in today's society.
To promote Family and Consumer Sciences and related occupations.
Our Motto
Toward New Horizons
Our Tagline
The Ultimate Leadership Experience
Our Creed
We are the Family, Career and Community Leaders of America. We face the future with warm courage and high hope. For we have the clear consciousness of seeking old and precious values. For we are the builders of homes, homes for America's future, homes where living will be the expression of everything that is good and fair, homes where truth and love and security and faith will be realities, not dreams. We are the Family, Career and Community Leaders of America. We face the future with warm courage and high hope.
What We Offer
Tennessee FCCLA provides dynamic programs that engage and support students as they prepare for careers in human services, education, design, and hospitality. These include:
Competitive Events that allow students to demonstrate knowledge and skills in real-world scenarios.
Leadership Conferences that foster communication, professionalism, and personal growth.
Industry Partnerships that connect students with professionals, mentors, and career pathways.
Classroom Integration that enhances CTE instruction with intra-curricular activities.