Overview

FAMILY & CONSUMER SCIENCES provides youth and adults with a set of experiences to prepare them for adulthood; to become competent in the management of their individual, family, and work lives; and to apply these skills to jobs and careers.

The program is based on what students need to know, be able to do, and be like in order to be competent in the demanding, challenging, and changing work of the family. The curriculum for the program includes the development of the process skills of managing work and family life, solving personal and family problems, relating to others, and assuming a leadership role as a responsible citizen. The course content focuses on six areas that reflect the practical, perennial problems faced as part of the work of the family.

Student Organization

Family, Career, and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA). is a national vocational student organization. The Virginia Association of Future Homemakers of America, Inc., is the state affiliate of this national organization. Schools and Work and Family Studies classes shall form local chapters that affiliate with the state and national organizations. Local FCCLA chapters associated with a school’s Work and Family Studies program support opportunities for students to initiate and carry out individual chapter activities and projects.

Membership in FCCLA is open to all students who are enrolled in or have taken a course in Work and Family Studies. FCCLA chapters emphasize preparation for community and family life, while recognizing that family members fill dual roles as wage earners. HERO chapters emphasize preparation for jobs and careers in the occupational component of Work and Family Studies, recognizing that wage earners fill multiple roles as family members.

FCCLA may be incorporated into the program through an in-class or out-of-class chapter with one or more advisers per school. This type of chapter would include students who are enrolled in or have taken courses in occupational or Work and Family Studies curriculum.

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