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Cross Roads FCCLA Members Become Peer Advisors

Eight members from the Cross Roads chapter are pictured here with Sharon Ridell Pierce, State of Texas FCCLA Advisor. From left to right are: Kayla Stewart, Diana Olvera, Shelby Segura, Ms. Pierce, Maci Mattingly, Abby Newman, Kelsey Irvin, and Abby McCallie. Not pictured is Courtney Hancock.
Eight members from the Cross Roads chapter are pictured here with Sharon Ridell Pierce, State of Texas FCCLA Advisor. From left to right are: Kayla Stewart, Diana Olvera, Shelby Segura, Ms. Pierce, Maci Mattingly, Abby Newman, Kelsey Irvin, and Abby McCallie. Not pictured is Courtney Hancock.

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. Continue reading “Cross Roads FCCLA Members Become Peer Advisors”