FCCLA gives student members employability skills, industry awareness, engaging experiences, and transferable career skills such as collaboration, problem solving, and time management. While building the student member’s resume, the FCCLA activities help develop personal skills in creative thinking, communication, and leadership.
FCCLA Chapter Membership Application
Revise this Membership Application to align with the rules of your school and add a chart on the back for members to put their class schedule rooms. This form is not required for the state association or national organization, but may be helpful at the local chapter level. A member signature is required because the adviser needs to confirm member consent to post their information in the national affiliation portal.
Yearly Permission/Publicity Waiver Form
This Permission Form will be used for all state meetings. Have members sign it early in the year. For meetings, send a digital copy with registrations.
Membership Cards
Affiliated chapters can access membership cards through their online national affiliation portal.
National Membership Kit
The FCCLA Membership Kit is in an easy-to use filled with resources, project ideas, lesson plans, and tools necessary to start or maintain your FCCLA chapter.
Alumni and Associates
For chapter alumni, advisers, family and friends - help FCCLA on the state level by chaperoning state events and judging STAR Events competition.
Looking for Help?
Call our PA State Facilitator for help when starting a chapter. When the information becomes overwhelming, ask for help.
There are three Affiliation types:
100% Middle Level Affiliation - for Middle Level chapters who are affiliating more than 27 students.
Urban Affiliation - for qualifying urban schools who are affiliating more than 500 students. Pennsylvania has four qualifying urban areas: Allentown, Erie, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh.
Regular Affiliation - for all other chapters.
There are four Chapter types:
High School - for high schools
Combined Jr / Sr High School - for schools that cover grades 5 though 12
Career Tech Education Center - for career technical schools and approved high school programs
Middle School - for middle schools
Pennsylvania FCCLA Chapter Policy: Schools may have one or more FCCLA chapters depending on the number of instructors in FCS related courses. Example, if a school has an instructor for culinary, another instructor for child care, and another instructor for education and training, that school may have 3 chapters. The advantages of having more that one chapter is that more students can participate and compete for resume building and scholarships. The disadvantage of having more that one chapter could be the costs if each chapter doesn't have 12 members. Each affiliated school instructor may not have more than one chapter of students per session.
Example - Full Day program: One (1) Chapter of students per teacher.
Example - Half Time Programs: (AM) One (1) chapter of students per teacher / (PM) One (1) chapter of students per teacher.
Affiliation Deadlines:
December 15 is the Pennsylvania FCCLA affiliation deadline in order for members to participate in STAR Events at the Pennsylvania FCCLA State Leadership Conference.
The national association recommends affiliating at least 12 members by November 1 in order to have access to all national services including the national affiliation portal that provides the Competitive Events Guide. Chapters may need to affiliate earlier if their members are competing in other national events. Check the national site for affiliation deadlines.
State and National Dues:
National dues are $9.00 per member and adviser, and Pennsylvania state dues are $9.00 per member with no dues for the adviser. The dues payment is sent as one sum ($18/person) to the address on the affiliation invoice form. There is a national minimum of 12 members + adviser for $225.
Tip - Double check your information for adviser, chapter and members before you submit your affiliation. When you hit submit, you lock in and agree to pay the listed amount.
Middle Level Chapters have the option of affiliating all Family and Consumer Sciences students for a bulk enrollment flat fee of $500. ($250 national and $250 state) Any Middle Level Chapter with more than 27 students must contact Mrs. Nadine Standley prior to affiliation to set up the bulk enrollment flat fee.
Urban Chapters within the corporate limits of Allentown, Erie, Philadelphia, or Pittsburgh have the option of affiliating as a bulk enrollment flat fee of $6000. ($4500 national and $1500 state) Any Urban Chapter with more than 500 students must contact Mrs. Nadine Standley prior to affiliation to set up the bulk enrollment flat fee.