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The FCCLA Career Connection program guides youth to link their options and skills for success in families, careers, and communities. Through individual, cooperative, and competitive activities, members— discover their strengths, target career goals, and initiate a plan for achieving the lifestyle they desire.
Career Connection Units:
Career Connection guides students to develop, plan, carry out, and evaluate projects. The projects improve the quality of life in six (6) units. Students focus activities on different aspects of career development. Students can choose a unit, then plan and carry out related projects that strengthen their awareness of skills needed for careers. - PLUG IN to Careers — Understand work and the Career Connection Program
- SIGN ON to the Career Connection — Link personal interests, skills, and goals to career clusters
- PROGRAM Career Steps — Prepare with education, leadership, and work experience
- LINK UP to Jobs — Learn to find and land a job
- ACCESS SKILLS for Career Success— Practice being productive on the job and promotable
- INTEGRATE Work and Life — Manage interconnected roles in families, careers, and communities.
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Awards:
FCCLA offers national recognition to chapters that complete the Career Connection projects. This honor includes cash awards and special recognition at the National Leadership Conference, online, and in Teen Times magazine. Chapters apply online for recognition for their hard work and innovative projects with the National Career Connection Program Award application. - High School Award — $1,000
- Middle School Award — $1,000
- Runner-Up Award — $500
Deadline: Applications must be submitted online to FCCLA national headquarters by March 1. The online award system will automatically close March 1, 11:59 p.m. EST. Click here to view your archived 2011-2012 Career Connection Program Award Application.
Career Connection Preview Application(.pdf)
Individual students can gain recognition for Career Connection projects in one of six units related to Family and Consumer Sciences through Leaders at Work. Visit the Leaders at Work page for more information.
Congratulations 2012 Career Connection Award Winners!!
High School Winner
Spring Lake Park High FCCLA, Minnesota Project Title: “Building Our Career Paths”
Middle School Winner
Northwestern Middle FCCLA, Ohio Project Title: “CSI: Career Search Investigation”
Runner-Up Winner
Caney High FCCLA, Oklahoma
Project Title: “Career Discovery Fair”
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