2006-2007 State Community Service Project
Touch Up, Clean Up, Fix Up

Michigan FCCLA is “Going Wild” this year for our State Community Service Project as we Touch Up, Clean Up and Fix Up our communities. We challenge you to jump into that jungle of your own back yard, and make a difference by making it an even more beautiful place to live. The project is designed in three areas: Litter Prevention, Solid Waste Reduction and Community Beautification / Improvement. Members are challenged to educate people in their school or community about technology, ordinances, etc. designed to prevent litter in the Litter Prevention area. With the Solid Waste Reduction area, members are encouraged to work with their community to encourage recycling and related activities to reduce the amount of waste going in to landfills. And the third, and most visible portion of the project is designed to challenge members to clean up in their community - picking up litter, cleaning up a park, painting park benches, etc. Anything to clean up and fix up your school or community.

Recognition Form

Project Ideas

• Work with school administrators to set up some guidelines and consequences about littering at school
• Create a flyer informing students or community members about local litter ordinances
• Make posters about the effects of litter and other relevant facts and hang them up at your school
• Talk to school officials about having a recycling drive or having separate containers at lunch for students to put recyclable items.
• Fundraise and purchase benches for a community park, or build some!
• Paint trash cans or benches in your parks.
• Have a community block party to clean up a neighborhood
• Clean up a park - pick up litter.
• Adopt a Highway as a chapter
• Plant flowers at your school
• Be creative! Anything to make your school or community more beautiful - or to protect the environment - makes a GREAT project!

Recognition Levels

Bronze: Plan and conduct at least one project from the Community Beautification area

Silver: Plan and conduct a minimum of one project in the Community Beautification area, and at least one from either the Solid Waste Reduction or Litter Prevention area

Gold: Plan and conduct at least one project in the Litter Prevention and Solid Waste Reduction areas, and two projects in the Community Beautification area.