Cross Roads ISD press release
In October, eight students from Cross Roads High School joined three hundred (300) FCCLA members and advisors from across Texas at the Omni Dallas Hotel at Park West training in one of the following areas:
- Stop the Violence- Students Taking on Prevention- a peer to peer outreach initiative empowering young people to recognize, report, and reduce the potential for youth violence;
- Financial Fitness- teaching others to save for their future and about the frauds that affect families in our country
- Childhood Obesity- helping fight the epidemic of the overweight population in our state:
- Civic Engagement- students will learn to make a difference in the civic life of their communities and develop the combination of knowledge, skills, values, and motivation to make a difference they will learn the importance of being engaged in the decision making process in their communities.
- Teen Safe Driving- Families Acting for Community Traffic Safety- education to help educate teens and their parents about the importance of teen safe driving and the consequences of distracted driving.
Students returned from the training as Peer Educators and were charged with collaborating with local school and community resource people, conducting local action projects and tracking results. Each student will train other students and/or adults in their school districts on one of these topics. Last year, the 325 students attending reached over 38,000 peers in local training seminars.
FCCLA: The Ultimate Leadership Experience is a dynamic and effective national student organization that helps young men and women become leaders and address important personal, family, work, and societal issues through Family and Consumer Sciences Education. FCCLA has 18,000 members in Texas; there are over 180,000 members nationwide.
FCCLA is unique among youth organizations because its programs are planned and run by members. It is the only career and technical in-school organizations with the family as its central focus. Participation in national programs and chapter activities helps members become strong leaders in their families, careers, and communities.
This conference was funded in part by the Allstate Foundation and H-E-B.
The local chapter advisor is Stephanie Pitts, Cross Roads Family and Consumer Science Teacher.