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Welcome,
Thank
you for visiting the Georgia PTA website. We welcome your visit
and hope you find the content informative and helpful. Our website
contains in depth resources for anyone interested in helping children,
supporting families or honing their leadership skills. We offer
best practices for students, families, teachers and administrators,
and we are proud to share them with you.
Change
in the economy is challenging us to think differently about life's
priorities. Families are being forced to make difficult choices
between food, shelter, clothing, and healthcare to make ends meet.
PTA continues to advocate for healthcare for children and networks
with affiliate organizations to offer extensive resources to meet
the needs of life's priorities at home, school and beyond. As the
oldest children's advocacy organization, PTA has a rich history
of providing services and support for children, families, schools
and communities, and influencing legislation to improve education,
health and safety.
Our
Vision – Making every child's potential a reality.
Our
Mission – PTA is
- A
powerful voice for all children,
- A
relevant resource for families and communities, and
- A
strong advocate for the education and well-being of every child.
Our
2009-2013 Strategic Plan addresses four goals:
- Improving
our Organizational Effectiveness .
- Increasing
the quality, quantity, and diversity of our Leadership
- Increasing
Membership by 2% each year
- Creating
and sustaining long-term Financial Viability
Georgia
PTA's 2009-2011 theme is "Back
to Basics: A Road Map for PTA Success!" Our
focus will be to emphasize the basic principles around which PTA
was organized and to advocate for “every child with one voice”.
We will accomplish this by:
- Spotlighting
alternative ways to provide the arts, music, physical education
and foreign language in spite of budget cuts, as we did before
they were provided in the schools,
- Modeling,
as a grassroots organization, how to do more with less and investing
in our children, our parents, our leaders and our community.
PTA
is sustained by dues revenue. Your membership makes it possible
for us to support programs for children, training for parents and
leaders, scholarships, brochures and other written resources, literature,
posters, customer service, our headquarters, website and much more.
Our
Honorary Membership Chair is Jocelyn Dorsey,
Director of Editorials
& Public Affairs, WSB-TV, Channel 2-Community Coverage You Can
Count On! Ms. Dorsey has been
a PTA member for many years and
will share her PTA story in future articles. Our
membership theme is “Let's Go Green”
in conjunction with our healthy habits and environmental initiatives.
We will grow our membership. A county-by-county map will be placed
on our website showing those locations where we have a PTA presence
and will be colored in green. The map will be updated on a regular
basis to reflect new areas of membership growth and local unit development.
It is our goal that by the end of 2011, all of Georgia is “Green.”
There
are approximately 1.6 million children in Georgia's schools. Imagine
the strength in our voice, if we were more than ONE MILLION members
strong and demonstrate WE HAVE A MEMBER FOR EVERY CHILD we represent.
Anyone can join the PTA parents,
teachers, students, school board members, local community and more.
The average cost to join PTA is only $5.00 per year. So we encourage
you to get involved. Please support
PTA's important work as a member of a local PTA near you or as part
of our statewide Birney-Butler unit. If you care about children
and there isn't a PTA in your community, please contact us and we'll
help you learn more about the value of PTA.
I
am proud and honored to serve as President of Georgia PTA. The Board
and I welcome all who will join us as we make our mark in history
and provide a more hopeful and healthy future for our children.
Thank you for working with us as we speak for every child with one
voice. Together we can make the PTA Vision a reality, “ Make
every child's potential a reality”.
Best
wishes,
Sheila
Cornelius, President, Georgia PTA 2009-2011
everychild.
onevoice. - cada nino con una voz.
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