Do you feel overwhelmed with your chapter's activities?

Are your FCCLA adviser responsibilities growing at a rate that you cannot believe?

If yes, than you need the help of an FCCLA alumni!

FCCLA alumni around the nation are more than willing to help the organization that turned them into ultimate leaders.

Ways to utilize the alumni in your area:

Alumni as Chaperones
Alumni enjoy reuniting with their advisers and working with your student members. If you are in need of assistance during your chapter's activities or an FCCLA local, district/region, state, or national meeting give one of them a call and ask them to be a chaperone, or "chapterone."

Alumni as Co-Advisers
Do you need help with the logistics of managing a chapter? Alumni have the experience necessary to assist you with managing your chapter. Utilize them in managing chapter community service committees or give them adminstrative duties such as creating spreadsheets, making copies, etc.

Alumni as Evaluators
Alumni enjoy seeing what your chapter has been up to. Use them as evaluators for STAR Events projects or have them proofread your chapter's program award application.

Alumni as Networkers
Gather a team of alumni and have them brainstorm area businesses that might be interested in donating funds or goods towards your chapter's efforts. You never know who they might be in contact with!

Alumni as Mentors
Alumni have been there. They know what it is like to be a teenager and have lived to tell the tale! Start an alumni mentorship program matching members with alumni in careers that are of interest to the member. Alumni can give members the time to help create resumes or apply for scholarships.

These relationships are usually just as important to the alumni as they are to the member.

How do I find these helpful alumni?

Contact your state adviser for a list of alumni in your area. Or, join the Alumni & Associates online community to access a data base of alumni in every state at www.fcclaalumni.org.