INDIANA PTA

Our Mission

The mission of the Indiana 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 community involvement in the public schools of this state and nation.

Our Vision for the Future

PTA will strengthen its role in shaping the local, state and national agenda for the health, education and welfare of children. PTA will enter the future with the diversity of the state represented and reflected in its membership, responding to the needs of its members, refined in its governance structure, strengthened in its leadership, and fiscally sound. PTA effectiveness and accountability will result in a substantial increase in both the number and commitment of its members. Positive social change will occur through PTA involvement in child advocacy, parenting education and educational reform.

PTA Purposes

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 advantages in physical, mental, social and spiritual education.

Last updated 05-Jan-2008