Need
PTA advocates for every child and we speak with one voice. But each year, as our population becomes more diverse it becomes increasingly difficult to speak for each child. It is difficult to speak to the desperate needs that affect those children whose current voices are too small to be heard.

Diversity is defined as including and realizing the potential of everyone regardless of race, ethnicity, culture, gender, marital status, socio-economic status, education, mental ability, national origin, parental status, employment status, experience, language, religion, ability, age, and sexual orientation.

Commitment Statement
Florida PTA has a history of recognizing the diverse nature of our population and the challenges that this diversity brings to the fulfillment of our purpose. Through ongoing efforts, Florida PTA is committed to ensuring that our membership and leadership will be more reflective of the diversity of the population of our state. Furthermore, Florida PTA is equally committed to helping our regions, councils, and local units recognize and reflect their own diverse populations.

Goal
Florida PTA has established a board level Diversity Outreach Committee. It is the goal of Florida PTA and this committee to provide the various levels of PTA within our state with the tools necessary to identify the diverse populations in their areas as well as the resources necessary to provide those populations with services and support. Through these efforts, the relevance of the PTA to all families and children can be realized and their resulting involvement (and membership) within the PTA will help to strengthen the diversity within our association.

Secondly, through the expansion of the Florida PTA Board of Directors responsibilities, potential leaders from across the state can be identified and mentored with the ultimate goal of forming a pool of qualified leaders who can fill leadership roles at local, county, regional, and state levels, thus bring more diverse members to our leadership teams and strengthening the diversity within our association.

To Be Continued...