Family Consumer Sciences and Human Services

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Missouri Family Consumer Science and Health Services

 

Calendar of Events

2025-26 FCSHS Calendar of Events - Updated 7/28/2025

LifeSmarts

Important Dates

  • August 1, 2025: LifeSmarts Competition Website goes live
  • December 1, 2025: LifeSmarts Online Qualification Quizzes Due
  • January 27, 2026: LifeSmarts Junior Varsity & Varsity finals (make up date January 29)
  • April 15-18, 2026: National LifeSmarts Competition 
FCCLA

FCCLA

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Family, Career and Community Leaders of America Inc. (FCCLA) is a nonprofit national career and technical student organization in public and private school through grade 12+.

Please visit our website for up-to-date information and publications: https://missourifccla.org.

Missouri FCCLA Staff

Ashley Witte
Missouri FCCLA State Adviser
(573) 522-6543
mofccla@dese.mo.gov

Mailing Address:
Office of College and Career Readiness/FCCLA
Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
P.O. Box 480
Jefferson City, MO 65102-0480

Street Address:
5th Floor, Jefferson Building
205 Jefferson Street
Jefferson City, MO 65101

General Information

What is Family, Career and Community Leaders of America?

Family, Career and Community Leaders of America is a national organization of students who have taken or are taking a course in family and consumer sciences classes through grade 12. 

Family, Career and Community Leaders of America is incorporated as a private, nonprofit career and technical organization.  FCCLA is one of the 10 national career and technical student organizations which operate through career and technical education programs in schools.

How does Family, Career and Community Leaders of America relate to class?

The main goal is the same: to improve personal, family, community, and job/career life.  The family and consumer sciences teacher is the advisor of the chapter.  The teacher/advisor uses the structure of the chapter to give family and consumer sciences students leadership experiences in planning and directing their own activities that in turn give family and consumer sciences class more meaning.

Membership

Who may join?

Any student who has taken or is taking a course in family and consumer sciences education may join an established chapter in his or her school.  Chapters are found in public and private middle and high schools.  There are chapters in all 50 states; Washington, D.C.; Puerto Rico; and the Virgin Islands.

Membership is voluntary for all students who have taken or are taking a course in family and consumer sciences education.  Both young women and men are members of Family, Career and Community Leaders of America.

How is Family, Career and Community Leaders of America financed?

FCCLA is supported primarily by student membership dues paid annually.  The organization also seeks individual, corporate, and foundation gifts.  State association dues are set by each association and are voted on by the state membership.  Regional and chapter dues are set by each individual group and approved by the members.  In addition, chapters may receive money through donations, grants, and fundraising activities.

What does your membership support?

  • National member magazine, Teen Times;
  • Newsletter for adult leaders, The Adviser;
  • Mailings to chapters;
  • National program development;
  • Program workbooks and chapter resources;
  • Training for adult and student leaders;
  • National promotion of the organization;
  • Membership processing fees;
  • Membership promotion;
  • National Board of Directors and National Executive Council activities;
  • Expenses related to raising money and seeking corporate sponsors;
  • Operating expenses of the national headquarters and staff;
  • Experiences that help you develop your own leadership style and job skills by attending regional, state, and national conferences;
  • Activities and personal successes that you can include on job, school, and scholarship applications;
  • Activities and costs associated with running a state-level organization with 14 state executive council members;
  • Missouri FCCLA Legislative Shadowing Program;
  • Having the opportunity to run for regional, state, and national FCCLA offices;
  • Participate in STAR (Students Taking Action with Recognition) Competitive Events;
  • Missouri FCCLA scholarship fund.

 

Approved Program Guidance

Approved Program Guidance

Missouri's approved programs are located in comprehensive high schools, area career and technical centers, community colleges and universities.

Professional Development Opportunities

FCSHS Professional Development Opportunities

Provided by:
Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
Family Consumer Sciences and Human Services
Missouri Restaurant Association
Missouri State University
University of Central Missouri

See details about all of our upcoming professional development: 
2025-26 Professional Development Opportunities At-A-Glance

Register for professional development sponsored by the University of Central Missouri (UCM) here.

Register for professional development sponsored by Missouri State University (MSU) here.

All professional development opportunities are eligible for 50/50 grant funding. For more information, look under Funding & Forms here.

2025-26 MoEFCS Officers

President
Jocelyn Lowry
Ash Grove High School
100 N. Maple Ln.
Ash Grove, MO 65604
jlowry@agpirates.com 

President-Elect
Krystle Gremaud
University of Central Mo
PO Box 800, LOV 4200
Warrensburg, MO 64093
kgremaud@ucmo.edu 

Secretary
Hali Hill
North Point High School
2255 W. Meyer Rd.
Wentzville, MO 63385
halihill@wsdr4.org

Treasurer
Michelle Brinkley
Lebanon R-3
757 Brice Street
Lebanon, MO 65536
mbrinkley@lebanon.k12.mo.us

Past-President
Emily Daniel
Nevada Regional Technical Center
900 West Ashland St.
Nevada, MO 64772
edaniel@nevada.k12.mo.us

MoEFCS Organizational Information

MoEFCS Membership

MoEFCS Bylaws and Polices

MoEFCS Board Forms

Standards and Curriculum Frameworks

Standards and Curriculum Frameworks

National Standards for Family Consumer Sciences Education

LEAD FCS (Leading, Engaging, Advocating, Developing Family & Consumer Sciences Education) is a network of state administrators. LEAD FCS is an affiliate of the Family and Consumer Sciences Education (FCS) Division of the Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE). This organization first began development of national standards for family and consumer sciences in May 1995. The resulting work became a powerful tool for showcasing the movement from home economics, with an emphasis on technical homemaking skills, to Family and Consumer Sciences Education & Human Services, with its focus on broader family and society issues, and provided significant new direction for the field.

In May 2014, LEAD FCS initiated a project to update the national standards, utilizing a highly participatory process that has involved well over 2,000 stakeholders providing recommendations for the third edition. The Family and Consumer Sciences National Standards 3.0 continues the proud tradition of providing the framework for national, state, and local program that prepare students for family life, work life, and careers in Family and Consumer Sciences by empowering individuals and families across the life span to manage the challenges of living and working in a diverse global society.

Common Career Technical Core

Missouri FCSHS is responsible for programming in these three clusters: Education and Training #5; Hospitality and Tourism #9; Human Services #10.

The Common Career Technical Core (CCTC) is a state-led initiative to establish a set of rigorous, high-quality standards for Career Technical Education (CTE) that states can adopt voluntarily.  The standards have been informed by state and industry standards and developed by a diverse group of teachers, business and industry experts, administrators and researcher.

The CCTC includes a set of standards for each of the 16 Career Clusters™ and their corresponding Career Pathways that define what students should know and be able to do after completing instruction in a program of study.  The CCTC also includes an overarching set of Career Ready Practices that apply to all programs of study.  The Career Ready Practices include 12 statements that address the knowledge, skills and dispositions that are important to becoming career ready.

FCSHS Curriculum Frameworks

Requires separate program approval -2 or more course required in the program of study.
These Programs of Study are offered at Comprehensive High Schools or Career Centers.

Offered Only at Career Centers

Health and Family Education

Funding & Forms

50/50 Career Education Grants

50/50 Career Education Grant funds allow CTE programs to purchase EQUIPMENT or CURRICULUM ENHANCEMENT resources. Monies are available on a 50 percent matching basis (50 percent local district reimbursement and 50 percent state reimbursement). The district may NOT use Enhancement Grant funds or Perkins funds to match the funding of the 50/50 reimbursement.

FCSHS also has Program Improvement Grants (PD) available. Conferences or workshops in curricular areas that directly affect the content areas taught will be considered for funding. As always, National ACTE, Missouri ACTE or FCCLA district, state, or national conferences are not eligible for funding. 

50/50 applications are accepted throughout the school year as long as funding is available. 

To apply

For reimbursement

Sample Forms:

Enhancement Grant

The purpose of the Vocational-Technical Education Enhancement Grant is to expand and enhance the quality of Missouri's occupational preparatory (long-term) career education programs. This is accomplished through improved alignment with business and industry occupational training needs and increased emphasis on training in occupations determined to be in critical shortage.

For more information regarding the enhancement grant, contact lori.brown@dese.mo.gov.

Mentoring

Welcome to Family Consumer Sciences & Human Services Education!

The Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education is the sponsor of a two-year mentoring program for beginning teachers, experienced teachers new to the career education field, or teachers returning to a career education program area after an absence of five years or more. If you qualify for one of these categories, we would like to invite you to be a protégé in our mentoring program. The goal of the program is to support both the protégé and the mentor in creating a professional learning community. The mentoring program is an excellent way for master teachers to share their experiences and knowledge to enhance the teaching year of a new or returning teacher.  Proteges must complete two years of mentoring training to fulfill the Beginning Teacher Assistance Program requirement.

All forms are fillable, please download and save the form before completing them:

Protégé Mentoring Program Application 

Mentor Mentoring Program Application 

Important Meeting Dates - Jefferson City 

  • September 16 - Mentor Training (6pm)- Mentors ONLY
  • September 17 - 1st Mentor/Protege Meeting
  • December 12 - 2nd Mentor/Protege Meeting

Both proteges and mentors need to be at scheduled meetings above.

Hotel block and meeting agendas will be emailed out by your content advisers.

Mentor Manual

Find the Mentor Manual here.

Listserv

MO-FACS Listserv

The purpose of MO-FACS Discussion List is to provide an electronic communication forum for educators, parents, and citizens, at large, throughout Missouri who are interested in the field of family consumer sciences and human services education.  MO-FACS is intended to facilitate the communication and exchange of ideas to improve and expand upon family consumer sciences education and related services for students in Missouri.  MO-FACS is the main line of communication from the state level to local educators for family consumer sciences and human services programming in Missouri.

Topics of discussion might include:

  • Sharing ideas and resources
  • Promotion of opportunities for youth, including FCCLA
  • Networking
  • Legislation and policies
  • Professional development opportunities
  • Program guidelines and deadlines

Listserv Rules

Listserv Use

To post a message, view archives, subscribe or unsubscribe to the listserv visit https://lists.more.net/mailman/listinfo/mo-facs.

FCS Teacher Education Programs

Teacher Education Programs

Educator Certification 

Missouri has three higher education institutions that provide pre-service education programs in family consumer sciences and human services. For information on enrollment and requirements for teacher of family and consumer sciences please contact the college.

Staff Contacts

FCSHS Staff Organizational Chart

Theresa Struemph
Director
Family Consumer Sciences and Human Services
Phone: 573-522-6542
Theresa.Struemph@dese.mo.gov

Ashley Witte
Supervisor
Family Consumer Sciences and Human Services Cluster 
FCCLA State Adviser
Phone: 573-522-6543
Ashley.Witte@dese.mo.gov
mofccla@dese.mo.gov 

Kelsi Neill
Part-Time Contractor
Hospitality and Tourism Cluster
LifeSmarts State Coordinator
Mentoring Program
Phone: 573-751-6878
Kelsi.Neill@dese.mo.gov

Jordan Stover
Administrative Assistant
Phone: 573-751-7964
Jordan.Stover@dese.mo.gov

Physical Address
205 Jefferson St.
Jefferson City, MO 65101

Mailing Address
P.O. Box 480
Jefferson City, MO 65101-0480

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