Peer Education

Officer Responsibility – Madison Stille – VP Competitive Events

Career Connection Units

• My Skills – Members learn about themselves and practice being productive, promotable employees as they link their personal interests, skills, and goals to careers.
• My Life – Members learn to manage interconnected roles in careers, families, and communities by exploring choices and skills that help balance these roles.
• My Career – Members gain a better understanding of work and learn how to find and land a job.
• My Path – Members identify steps they can take to reach career and lifestyle go

Project Ideas

1. As a group. set up a Career Fair for your whole school. You can try to bring in specialists in all areas, to get a wide variety of possible careers for students.
2. Have a specialist in one Career area come in and speak on their area of work.
3. Bring in a business person to help teach students on how to properly participate in an interview, so the students won’t be walking blind into getting a job interview.
4. Conduct mock interviews with fellow students, invite business professionals to interview students so students have the practice of being in an interview.
5. Research ways to balance work stress and life; Create a pamphlet
6. Take an interest inventory, and pick a career in your interest to research, and share with fellow students.

Units Connected with Project Ideas 

My Skills– Take an interest inventory, and pick a career that you’re interested in, then research and share with fellow peers — First take an interest inventory on careers, and pick a career that interests you the most. Once you have picked that career, do research on it. Research things such as education/training needed, outlook (jobs available), pay + benefits, work week, and responsibilities (task). Take this information and plug it into a PowerPoint format or poster format, and then present it to fellow peers and members. This will help you and fellow students learn more about your chosen career. — 

My Life– Research and Present ways to balance life’s work stress and life’s complications — First identify concerns and stresses associated with work and life balances. Once you have identified those concerns, research the ones that you find most important. Research why they are a concern, how they affect your mental and physical state, and how to help cope and fix these problems. Then with all this information create a presentation or poster on this, and share with peers. This information will help students and staff learn how to cope and deal with everyday life stresses. — Star Event

My Career– Bring in expert in one area of work to speak and teach others about their role in the community and what they do / or bring in a Career Fair — First find and area or areas of work you would like someone or multiple people to speak on. Once you have done this, contact people in those areas who would be willing to speak to your fellow peers. Have the person speak or people set up either a booth. Then once this has been done, send out a form for students to answer. This can be about what they learned, what they want to do, or even how this affected them. —

My Path– Mock Interview/Bring in Someone to speak about Interviews — First identify key areas of the interviewing process that students need to learn more about. Once you have identified these key areas, invite professionals from your community to hold mock interviews with students. Once you have completed the interview process send out a form inquiring on what the students learned and how this helped them.  —

Final Projects Suggestions

With Peer Education it is all about connecting your project to a FCCLA National Program, and a unit within that program. Listed below you can find four different project ideas all involved with Career Connections.  These are just suggestions.  You can plan your own project.

My skills in career connections is about focusing on what you can do as an individual to better your skills and apply them to your career path. A project idea to do this is you can take a career interest inventory to see where your skills and interests can be applied in the real world. To do this first you must take a career interest inventory, and pick a career that interests you and find what skills you have that apply to this career. Once you have picked a career, do some research on it. Find things such as the education/training needed, outlook (jobs available), pay and benefits, the work week, and responsibilities (task).  Then take this information and plug it into a PowerPoint or poster, and present it to your fellow peers. This project will help you and your fellow peers grow a deeper understanding of what the career you chose is.

My Life in career connections is about focusing on your life and how your career connects to it. A project idea for this, is you can research and present ways to balance life’s work stress and life’s complications. To do this first you have to identify concerns and stresses associated with work and life. Once you have completed this, then research why they are a concern and how the average person can address these issues. Then put all this information into a poster or a slide show, and share with your peers. This information can and will help students and staff learn how to cope and deal with everyday life stresses.

My Career in career connections is about focusing on how you as an individual can get to your career goal, and learning about how many careers there are. A project idea for this, is you can bring in an expert in a specific field/career to speak to classes about their expertise, or you can bring a career fair to help students see how many career opportunities there are. To do this you must first find an expert or multiple people to speak on their career. Once you have completed this you then need to have these people come speak at a set time for a class or set up a booth at lunch for all students. Then once this has been completed you can send out a form to gather student’s responses on what they learned, and how this experience affected them. 

My Path in career connections is about focusing on the path to a career. A project idea for this is you can set up a mock interview or bring in an expert on interviews. To do this you first need to identify the key areas of the interviewing process, and find someone who is willing to speak and or do mock interviews. Then you need to conduct the mock interviews or let the person speak to a class. Once this is done send out a form inquiring on what the students learned and how this helped them.

Officer Assigned – Macy Thorson – VP of Community Service

Through Families First, members gain a better understanding of how families work and learn skills to become strong family members. Its goals are to: help members become strong family members and leaders for today and tomorrow and strengthen the family as the basic unit of society.

Families First Units

• Families Today – understand and celebrate families
• You-Me-Us – strengthen family relationships
• Meet the Challenge – overcome obstacles together
• Balancing Family and Career – manage multiple responsibilities
• Parent Practice – learn to nurture children

Suggested projects for Families First projects, remember these are just suggestions.

Families Today– understand and celebrate families

Invite a speaker to your school to speak about ways that families today can adjust and deal with changes that are happening in society with an emphasis on celebrating families.

• Invite a speaker to your school to speak about ways that families today can adjust and deal with changes that are happening in society with an emphasis on celebrating families.
• Examples to find speakers:  hospitals, ISU extension, mental health professionals, school counselor

You-Me-Us– strengthen family relationships

• Research factors that cause stress to the family
• Examples: job loss, financial issues, health problems

Meet the Challenge– overcome obstacles together

• Find resources within your community or nearby communities to find support to help families during struggling times.
• Publish your information in a flier or newspaper article that is circulated within your community.  

Balancing Family and Career– manage multiple responsibilities

• Research ways to reduce stress and have a stronger mental health and share your research in a poster or PowerPoint.  
• Example: Find a coping skill and try it out 

Parent Practice– learn to nurture children

• Plan an hour of reading with elementary students.  Encourage your chapter to participate in this project.  Have members read to younger students or listen to upper elementary students read.

Officer Assigned – Emma Jensen – VP of Parliamentary Law

Families Acting for Community Traffic Safety (FACTS) gives members the information and incentives they need to build an understanding of what it means to drive safely, both today and in the future. Through their projects, members work to educate adults and peers about traffic safety and support enforcement of local rules and regulations. FCCLA members are given the tools to help families promote basic safety attitudes that can last a lifetime.

FACTS Essential Topics

• People – to understand and promote your role as a driver or passenger and keep yourself and others safe
• Vehicles – to understand vehicle safety and the role it plays in safety for you and others
• Roads – to understand and promote your role on the road as well as the safety hazards you may encounter and how to avoid or react to them

Suggestions for FACTS Projects

With Peer Education it is all about connecting your project to a FCCLA National Program. Below you will read different project suggestions for each of the Three units of FACTS.  These are just suggestions.  You can plan your own project.

People – Distracted Driver – Create a project, presentation, request a speaker, make a poster about distracted driving.  Texting while driving, impaired/drunk driving.   Make an impact by discussing the statistics of distracted drivers the laws and fines associated with this.

Vehicle – Seatbelts and Airbags – Create a project, presentation, request a speaker, make a poster about proper use of seatbelts and how they save lives.  Include information about airbags and the danger of small children in the front seat. 

Roads – “Follow the Rules of the Road” “Know your Signs” Create a project, presentation, request a speaker, make a poster about the rules of the road and knowing what the signs mean when driving. 

***State Farm is a National Sponsor

Officer Assigned – Brody Kuhse – First Vice President

Through Families First, members gain a better understanding of how families work and learn skills to become strong family members. Its goals are to: help members become strong family members and leaders for today and tomorrow and strengthen the family as the basic unit of society.

Families First Units

• Dynamics – Understanding families and family relationships
• Balance – Enabling young people and families to prioritize self-care and overcome obstacles
• Development – Learning how to nurture and care for children
• Safety – Priorititizing and practicing safety within families
• Skills – Developing strategies to be a good family member

Suggested projects for Families First projects, remember these are just suggestions.

Dynamics – Understanding families and family relationships – What do Families facing cancer have to deal with?

• Create a list of resources that can help families facing an illness/disease.  Share this list through a presentation, newspaper article, poster.  Interview some of the resources and share their methods of helping families.
• Research 3 types of cancers that might affect people in your area and display them on posters around your school with the cancer ribbon colors included.

Balance– Enabling young people and families to prioritize self-care and overcome obstacles – How does a cancer diagnosis directly and indirectly affect families and the community?

• Research medical professionals and social workers who work with families struggling with sickness.
• Invite a guest speaker (Social worker, medical professional, non-profit chair) to present about what families facing diseases have to go through.

Development – Learning how to nurture and care for children – How can the community collaborate to support families dealing with illness or spread awareness about illness prevention?

• Research the importance of routine medical checkups to detect illnesses before they progress.
• Create a presentation, poster, or social media page displaying your research information about the routine medical checkups/test that detect illnesses.  Share with your school and community.   

Safety– Prioritizing and practicing safety within families – How can families facing cancer balance treatment and their careers?  What are medical career paths for people interested in working with children?

• Interview local health professionals or nonprofit organizations about pediatric care careers.  Inquire what part of their professions is the most rewarding when working with children and families.
• Create a presentation about what families fighting illnesses might be facing.  Include local resources for support as stress management, and grieving techniques (classes offered by local hospital).

Skills – Developing strategies to be a good family member – What can the community do to nurture children and provide the best health possible?

• Research and create posters for your school showing the importance of nutrition and healthy eating habits for children and teens.
• Create infographics (based on research) for your chapter’s social media pages that help teach the community about the importance of regular medical checkups for children.  (Examples include: Checkup frequency for infants, toddlers, teens and what they might include).

Officer Assigned – Emersyn Rentschler – VP of Finance

Financial Fitness engages members in teaching one another how to earn, spend, save, and protect money wisely. Through FCCLA’s Financial Fitness program, members plan and carry out projects that help them and their peers learn to become wise financial managers and smart consumers. FCCLA members can build their peers’ financial literacy and teach them skills for managing their finances.

Financial Fitness Units

• Earning – sharpen on-the-job financial fitness
• Spending – track and plan personal spending
• Saving – conquer bank accounts, credit, and investments
• Protecting – keep financial and personal interests’ safe

Final Project Suggestions

With Peer Education it is all about connecting your project to a FCCLA National Program. Below you will read different project suggestions for each of the four units of   Financial Fitness.  These are just suggestions.  You can plan your own project

Earning – Create a bulletin board of jobs that pay different amounts that teenagers could get.  Include a description of the job, the amount you would make, and training needed to for the job.  Include part-time and full time job opportunities in your area.

Spending – Research the similarities and differences how someone would spend their money if they didn’t have any hospital bills vs. families who have hospital bills.  Create a project board/poster with all of your information and display it around school.

Saving – Create a poster that teaches others how to save extra money in case an emergency happens, such as medical bills.  Create a chart to show how saving a small amount over a few months will prepare you for an emergency.

Protecting – Invite a speaker to teach about different types of accounts. Teach teens how to protect their money, debit cards, credit cards, digital banking, Apple Pay, Venmo, protecting your future by knowing about banking.

Officer Assigned – Chloe Klarenbeek – VP of Development

Power of One helps members to find and use their personal power. Members set their own goals, work to achieve them, and enjoy the results. The skills members learn in Power of One help them now and in the future with school, friends and family, and on the job.

Power of One Deadlines:

Power of One Units 

• A Better You – improve personal traits
• Family Ties – get along better with family members
• Working on Working – explore work options, prepare for a career, or sharpen skills useful in business
• Take the Lead – develop leadership qualities
• Speak Out for FCCLA – tell others about positive experiences in FCCLA

Final Project Suggestions

With Peer Education it is all about connecting your project to a FCCLA National Program. Below you will read different project suggestions for each of the 5 units of   Power of One.  These are just suggestions.  You can plan your own project.

A Better You: Make a vision board with all of your goals (large and small).  Show the steps you plan on taking to accomplish them, and document your milestones to track your progress.  

Family Ties: Ask your parents if anyone in your family has struggled with some type of cancer or a close family friend.  Research the type of cancer they have/had and make a poster/presentation about it.  

Working on Working: Research the different types of doctors that take care of cancer patients.  Choose one that interest you, create a slideshow about it and present it for to your peers.

Take the Lead: Start a donation for items to make goody baskets for teenagers and children struggling from cancer in the hospital.

Speak Out for FCCLA: Go to the schools in your area that don’t have a FCCLA Chapter yet, make a presentation and educate them FCCLA and about this year’s theme “Walk in Their Shoes”.  Share the theme within your school and encourage members and non-members to donate, educate, and become a member of FCCLA. 

Officer Assigned – Cerra Muntz – VP of Public Relations

Public Relations team members “maximize” the flow of information between FCCLA and the public!   Public relations team members will help “brand” FCCLA across Iowa by using topics of public interest and news items that continue to spread the goals of FCCLA.  Common activities include speaking at conferences, working with the press/media and helping publicize the Iowa FCCLA website through the use of social media to energize members statewide.

Final Project Suggestions 

With Peer Education it is all about connecting your project to an FCCLA National Program.  One goal of Public Relations is to tie this program to one of the many STAR Events.  Examples would be: Promote and Publicize FCCLA, Say Yes to FCS Education, Professional Presentation, National Programs in Action, Interpersonal Communication, Chapter Service Project (display or portfolio) Career Investigation.

Below you will read different project suggestions for Public Relations.  These are just suggestions.  You can plan your own project.

• Project ideas specific to “Walk in Their Shoes” Children’s Cancer

  ·      Organize a walk to raise awareness and/or money for cancer treatment.  After each mile, a participant can get a bracelet representing a different type of cancer.

  ·      Organize a CCA (Children’s Cancer Awareness) night.  Raise awareness for children’s cancer.  Invite a guest speaker for an assembly, class presentation, or sporting event to speak at halftime at a game. Ask for donations of money from local businesses to fund special shirts as warm ups for this special event. 

  ·      Recruit FCCLA members and non-members to Sew colorful/fun patterned pillow cases in FCS classes and donate to Children’s Cancer Hospitals.  Deliver the pillowcases to the hospital.

  ·      Make an information board to share in your school hallway about children’s cancer.  Include types of cancer, cancer treatments, ways to help, anything else they can think of to put on this board for their school hallway.

  ·      Make an informational poster to share in your school hallways about children’s cancer.  Include types of cancer, cancer treatments, ways to help, anything else they can think of to put on this board for their school hallway.

  ·      Make a slides presentation about children’s cancer and share it to your FCCLA Chapter, and FCS classes to raise awareness for children’s cancer.  Include things like types of cancer, cancer treatments, ways to help, how your chapter is taking on this service project for this year. 

  ·      Write a newspaper article to share in your school’s newsletter, community newspaper, school website.

Officer Assigned – Julia Eastman – VP of National Programs

The FCCLA Stand Up peer education program guides members to develop, plan, carry out, and evaluate advocacy activities to improve the quality of life in their communities. Members develop their voice to make a positive impact. Through their projects, members experience character development and improve their critical and creative thinking, interpersonal communication, leadership, practical knowledge, and career preparation. 

Stand Up Units

• Assess current needs
• Educate others regarding concerns
• Advocate so that they can make a difference now and in the future

Final Project Suggestions

With Peer Education it is all about connecting your project to a FCCLA National Program. Below you will read different project suggestions for each of the three units of Stand Up. Evaluate advocacy activities to improve students’ quality of life in the community. These are just suggestions.  You can plan your own projects.

Assess: Create a Google form or blog discussing the NEEDS for the community.  Send it out to the community and collect ideas and share in a newspaper article the needs expressed by the community.

Educate: Create a walk/run (5k) for every mile or so many steps walked you would get a bracelet/bead representing a color of a type of childhood cancer.

Advocate: Create a local “Closet” for young children in need.  Allow the children to come and “shop” in the closet for items they need.

Officer Assigned – Autumn Jones Popp – VP of Membership

The Student Body program helps members learn to make informed, responsible choices for their physical and mental health while also providing opportunities to teach others. The teen years are an ideal time to establish healthy attitudes and habits to last a lifetime, which is why Student Body gives members the facts and incentives they need to build a healthy body.

Student Body Units

• The Healthy You – empowering teens to make wise food and lifestyle choices
• The Fit You – empowering teens to take charge of their health and their level of fitness
• The Real You – empowering teens to maintain positive mental health
• The Resilient You – empowering teens to live in ways that build emotional health

Final Project Suggestions

With Peer Education it is all about connecting your project to a FCCLA National Program. Below you will read different project suggestions for each of the four units of   Student Body.  These are just suggestions.  You can plan your own project.

The Healthy You – Host a “Walk for Childhood Cancer” in your school district at a local track or around your neighborhood to promote childhood cancer awareness.

The Resilient You – Create an article on the damage that childhood cancer does to families and how they try to combat those feelings.

The Real You – Make a poster emphasizing the importance of staying physically fit and eating healthy at a young age to help stay healthy.

The Fit You –  Encourage your Peers and faculty to download a fitness app on your phone to track their steps and record them each week, set a goal and try to reach it each week.  Chart everyone’s progress with teams working toward a healthy goal.