FCCLA Club News - March 2010

Kittitas FCCLA Goes Beyond the Classroom!
(contributed by Cheryl Uceny, FCCLA Adviser)

Kittitas FCCLA chapter members have been busy working on projects to strengthen the families of our community.  Studies indicate that the average family spends 38.5 minutes a week in quality conversation with their teenagers.  Edgar Borges and Mackenzie Forman have been promoting Dinner Makes A Difference.  They have created conversation starters for dinner time, and informed the community on the benefits of a family eating dinner together five to seven nights a week.  Michael Dohrman and Mallori Allphin hosted an evening of family fun with a mother/son daddy/daughter dance.  Families in attendance had a great time together.  Families came together and participated in the Great American Bake Sale, a project being organized by three sixth graders, Leah Pemberton, Annie Stickney and Maggie Uceny.  We asked families to agree to set aside time to bake together and donate the items to the bake sale.  The Great American Bake Sale proceeds go to Share Our Strength a national organization whose mission is to reduce childhood hunger.  This year alone 12.7 million children will wonder when or where their next meal will be.  Our community donated over $400.00 to the cause.

Other projects our chapter has been working on include PB’s Little Hands, a guild organized to support the research of dermatomyositis an autoimmune disease where the immune system gets turned on and can’t turn itself off.  The average age of onset is 6 years.  Madi Wilson and Rachel Baker have been busy promoting the guild membership and fundraisers to support research for a cure.                 

Morgan Uceny, a senior at Kittitas, created an awareness campaign for Shaken Baby Syndrome.  She designed informational brochures to hand out to parents of newborns at the Kittitas Valley Community Hospital.  Morgan constructed interactive posters to be hung in medical facilities throughout the valley with informational brochures.  In addition she recorded a public service announcement informing listeners about the dangers of shaken baby syndrome.

Kittitas FCCLA members will compete with their projects in the regional STAR Events competition March 15th at Central Washington University.                       

added 4/21/2010 10:20:59 AM