PARENT TEACHER COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION
OUR VISION
A Legacy of Generational Excellence for Every Community
OUR MISSION
I AM LEGACY PTCA seeks to ignite and sustain the process of generational wellness providing parents, teachers, and community stakeholders with educational resources, leadership training, personal advancement and community development opportunities
OUR WHY
Longstanding inequities have resulted in significant gaps in education, employment, health, and wealth among communities of color; closing these gaps is an economic imperative, for communities and the nation.
According to Robert Johnson Foundation (RJF, 2016), the wealthiest 1 percent of U.S. households had nearly twice as much wealth as the least wealthy 90 percent of U.S. households combined, and the 20 percent of households with the highest incomes earned 51 percent of the nation’s aggregate income. Such extreme economic inequality has become a serious concern, voiced in the popular press and by national economic leaders, including Janet Yellen, the former chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
According to the (RJF) the United States historically has prided itself on being the land of opportunity, with greater economic mobility than other affluent countries, this is no longer the case. Among advanced industrial nations, the United States has the strongest correspondence between parental income and children’s later income as adults, reflecting a lack of intergenerational mobility in earnings.
PTCA believes that an array of interventions in multiple sectors is needed to ensure that all individuals and families have access to equitable opportunities. For example, awareness of the intergenerational pathways linking wealth and health underscores the need for increased investment in early childhood development, including early care and education and services to strengthen parents’ ability to provide health-promoting home environments for their children—both of which are essential for economic opportunity.
Also, effective policies and programs that assist vulnerable individuals and families with financial stability, provide protection from debt and discriminatory financial practices, and increase access to shelter and other necessities is necessary to overcome some of the most fundamental obstacles—such as institutional racism and entrenched, intergenerational poverty
We believe when residents of all communities have access to the highest standards of housing, jobs, education, workforce training, and healthy and safe environments, this nation’s promise of opportunity begins to ring true.