Purpose and Mission

The Purpose of the PTA is:

• To promote the welfare of children and youth in home, school, community and place of worship

• To raise the standards of home life

• To secure adequate laws for the care and protection of children and youth

• To bring into closer relation the home and the school, that parents and teachers may cooperate intelligently in the education of children and youth

• To develop between educators and the general public such united efforts as will secure for all children and youth the highest advantage in physical, mental, social and spiritual education

These five statements were drafted as part of the very first Congress of Mothers in 1897 in Washington, D.C.  They are as timely and as important today as they were then.  The Objects are what unite all PTAs in purpose and they are the statements to which each local unit must align everything it does, says or works towards.

The Mission of the PTA is three-fold:

• To support and speak on behalf of children and youth in the schools, in the community, and before governmental agencies and other organizations that make decisions affecting children;
• To assist parents in developing the skills they need to raise and protect their children;  and
• To encourage parent and public involvement in the public schools of this nation.