Career Connection helps members learn more about themselves, the workplace, and future careers to put themselves on the pathway to success. The projects that members conduct around Career Connection units will give them the confidence to face the thousands of overwhelming options that come with future career decisions.
The Community Service program guides members to identify local concerns and carry out projects to improve the quality of life in their communities. Through their projects, members experience character development and improve their critical and creative thinking, interpersonal communication, practical knowledge, and career preparation. FCCLA members learn more about themselves, others, and the world so that they can make a difference now and in the future.
Families Acting for Community Traffic Safety (FACTS) gives members the information and incentives they need to build an understanding of what it means to drive safely, both today and in the future. Through their projects, members work to educate adults and peers about traffic safety and support enforcement of local rules and regulations. FCCLA members are given the tools to help families promote basic safety attitudes that can last a lifetime.
2023-2024 Ohio FCCLA Top 10 FACTS Recipients:
- Black River High School
- Great Oaks – Scarlet Oaks ECE Juniors
- Great Oaks – Scarlet Oaks ECE Seniors
- Fairview High School
- Licking Valley High School
- Lucas Jr./Sr. High School – Pioneer Career & Technology Center
- Lynchburg-Clay High School
- Ripley Union Lewis Huntington High School
- Southeastern Jr./Sr. High School
- Tri-County North High School
Newly Updated Fall of 2023 – Families First is a national FCCLA peer education program that helps young people explore, understand, and appreciate diverse aspects of families and family life.
2024 Ohio FCCLA Top 3 Families First Recipients:
- Ashland County West Holmes Career Center ECE
- Clinton Massie Middle School
- United High School
Financial Fitness engages members in teaching one another how to earn, spend, save, and protect money wisely. Through FCCLA’s Financial Fitness program, members plan and carry out projects that help them, and their peers learn to become wise financial managers and smart consumers. FCCLA members can build their peers’ financial literacy and teach them skills for managing their finances.
The FCCLA Stand Up national peer education program guides members to develop, plan, carry out, and evaluate advocacy activities to improve the quality of life in their communities. Members develop their voice to make a positive impact. Through their projects, members experience character development and improve their critical and creative thinking, interpersonal communication, leadership, practical knowledge, and career preparation.
The Student Body program helps members learn to make informed, responsible choices for their physical and mental health while also providing opportunities to teach others. The teen years are an ideal time to establish healthy attitudes and habits to last a lifetime, which is why Student Body gives members the facts and incentives they need to build a healthy body.
2024 Ohio FCCLA SLC National Program Award Winners:
1st Place: Shelby High School – Pioneer Career & Technology Center
Shelby High School – Pioneer Career & Technology Center hosted a teddy bear toss. This event invited fans at the basketball game to bring a stuffed animal to toss out on the basketball court in an effort to hit a target and win a gift card. Shelby FCCLA received 8 gift cards in total as donations. On the day of the event, members tagged each stuffed animal with the donor’s name. At halftime of the girl’s basketball game an announcement was made to inform fans on directions, targets were placed across the court and members circled the court to help with pick up. Members worked together to count stuffed animals which exceeded the goal of 40 with collecting 89. After the event, all tags were removed, stuffed animals were checked for quality and 24 teddy bears were delivered to Crestwood Care Center for dementia patients and the remaining teddy bears were dropped off at the Helpline Collections Center.
2nd Place: Fairview High School
An estimated amount of 60% of nursing home patients have no visitors during the holiday season. About 54% of the Fairview elementary students live in poverty and families cannot afford to purchase holiday presents. Hearing these stats, the Fairview FCCLA Chapter decided to address this issue by doing some extra special holiday related activities for the Central Local School families and adopted a nursing home. Fairview FCCLA worked with the Fellowship of Christian Athletes to organize Operation Christmas Child at the school. Items were collected and packed into 128 shoe boxes to be shipped to families in need. Fairview FCCLA partnered with the National Honor Society to organize the local “Central Shares” school donation. In December, Fairview FCCLA chapter members wrote Santa letters with the kindergarten classes. The kindergartners wrote to Santa and chapter members wrote back to them as Santa. They also sent 23 Troop Care Packages to Troops that are stationed away from home at this time of year. Care Packages included a stocking, candy, and a Christmas card. To wrap everything up, the student body helped “shower” the local nursing home with over 180 Christmas cards.
3rd Place: Houston High School
At the beginning of the school year, Houston surveyed their staff and community looking at who in their community could possibly use some help. Survey results showed that they should help Dustin, a junior student at Houston High School who was diagnosed with brain cancer in December 2022 after suffering a seizure during basketball practice. Houston hosted a Miracle Minute at a basketball game and also had 8 raffle basket drawings. Between the first and second quarters of the varsity game, Houston FCCLA members and Houston High School cheerleaders helped pass around buckets to people to put their donations in as quickly as possible in one minute. At the conclusion of the night, Houston raised over $5,000 for Dustin and his family.