Show More Than Cookies National PTA will be observed by local 4 WITH A total membership of close to 10 the National PTA is the world's largest volunteer or devoted solely to the welfare of Over the past 75 synonymous with just thing that's ITS influence has been felt from city councils in small towns to the halls of Congress in D. C. PTA has even left its mark on the other side of the world in where parent-teacher associations have been patterned after the structure of the National Like most large the National PTA has had its share of IT HAS been the target of extremist groups who dubbed it has been attacked from within and has been called everything from to by its But it has survived and it continues to In the words of John M. president of the National has survived because in the PTA we are people taking PTA MEMBERS turn anxiety into action and aspiration into They find joy and satisfaction in working for the pub- lie And there is no more important public interest than the children and youth of i. During its long National PTA has urged its local units to adopt a philosophy of personal The national organization has designed programs and projects of major importance for use at the state and local PTA SUCH programs include the National PTA's Concern for Children in Through a mutual effort of the National PTA and the National Juvenile Court a nationwide plan has been designed to use volunteers in the juvenile THE program would develop ways to train working with the courts and supplementing the work of its staff with a goal of providing more individual attention for each child in The volunteer might provide tutoring or remedial or might simply lend a helping hand in one-to-one Communities where this program has been report not only individual but an improvement in communication between juvenile courts and the AS A result of the National PTA's Smoking and Health more than eight million brochures have been distributed to children in an effort to make theirs a The National PTA also has implemented a plan for converting existing PTA's into |