What is a Strategic Plan?
Strategic plans drive intentional growth, establish direction, and engage members. A well-crafted strategic plan is a roadmap to where you're going and how you're going to get there. It serves as a guide for your team, helps you build successful programs, and represents consensus from your members. The goal is to expand our association’s work and leadership role to forward our mission and build a bright future for every child.
Why have a Strategic Plan and not just goals?
A Strategic Plan clarifies the shared practical vision for the board of directors, outlines strategies and steps for accomplishing the goals set by the board, and will allow the board to evaluate, measure the successes of the plan each year. The strategic plan consists of the priority areas, goals, and objectives.
Mission of Utah PTA
To make every child’s potential a reality by engaging and empowering families and communities to advocate for all children.
Vision of Utah PTA
Advocate by speaking on behalf of all children and youth in schools, in the community, before governmental bodies, and before other organizations that make decisions affecting children.
Develop programs, resources, and leadership skills that enhance the lives of all children, youth, and their families.
Engage the public in united and equitable efforts to secure the physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and social well-being of all children and youth.
Priority Areas of Strategic Plan
Communication - Clear and Collaborative
Leadership - Knowledgeable and Innovative
Membership - Diverse and Engaged
Goals within the Strategic Plan
Communication
- Make Utah PTA more visible to all levels of PTA and the community as a whole
- Foster open two-way communication channels through all levels
Leadership
- Provide leadership development and training to regions, councils and local units
- Build a Leadership Pipeline so that all levels of PTA have adequate leadership both now and into the future
Membership
- Support and strengthen established PTAs throughout the state in retaining and increasing membership
- Promote the value of PTA membership by increasing public perception and awareness of PTA
- Seek opportunities for all public schools in Utah to benefit from an active PTA
The full 2022-2025 Utah PTA Strategic Plan can be found below.
In addition to the long-term goals identified in the 2022-2025 Strategic Plan, Utah PTA identifies goals on a yearly basis to increase membership, identify new local units, grow our leadership pipeline, improve 2 way communication and increase advocacy and partnerships. The current Utah PTA Objectives to meet the Strategic Plan Goals can be found attached below.