Family, Career and Community Leaders of America, Inc., is a dynamic and effective national student organization that:

• is nonprofit for public and private school students through grade 12.
• helps young men and women become leaders
• addresses important personal, family, work, and societal issues through family and consumer sciences education.
• represents more than 200,000 students in 8,000 chapters in 53 state associations, including the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands.
• is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education (Office of Vocational and Adult Education) and the American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences (AAFCS).
• was founded in 1945 as Future Homemakers of America and renamed Family, Career and Community Leaders of America, Inc., in 1999 to reflect its evolution into work and society.