 FCCLA
- Family, Career and Community Leaders of America
FCCLA is a nonprofit national vocational student organization for young men and women in family and consumer sciences education in public and private school through grade 12.
Everyone is part of a family, and Family Career and Community Leaders of America 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 227,000 members are active in a network of associations in 50 states as well as in the District of Columbia, the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.
Chapter projects focus on a variety of youth concerns, including teen pregnancy, parenting, family relationships, substance abuse, peer pressure, environment, nutrition and fitness, teen violence and career exploration.
Involvement in FCCLA offers members the opportunity to expand their leadership potential and develop skills for life -- planning, goal setting, problem solving, decision making and interpersonal communication -- necessary in the home and workplace.
This information was taken from www.fcclainc.org.
Some of the things the Southwest chapter does during the school year include:
- Collect hair for Locks of Love, which is a donation for cancer patients who have lost their hair
- Help local families in need
- Care for others around us
- Attend meetings
- Organize spirit week
- Collect food for the Food Pantries
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Student
Council
07-08 Student Council
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To be on the Southwest Student Council, you must be elected to be a representative of your class, or be elected to represent an organization that you are
in. The Southwest Student Council sponsors many things throughout the school
year. The Student Council is used to get the opinions heard of students all over the
school. They are an important part of the school.
Some of the things that the Southwest Student Council does includes:
- hosting the homecoming dance every year and a few other dances
- paying for two assemblies during the year
- providing the teachers with food during parent teacher conferences
- running the concession stands for most of the ball games during the year
- maintaining the pop machine in the lunch room
- keeping the machine filled
- paying for the pizza that is used as a reward for perfect attendance
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