National PTA and Facebook partner to promote responsible Internet use to youth, parents and teachers
6/18/2010
By Lydia Meigs
National PTA and Facebook recently announced a formal collaboration to promote responsible and safe Internet use to kids, parents and teachers. Together, National PTA and Facebook will establish a comprehensive program that will provide information, support, and news to encourage citizenship online, reduce cyber-bullying and advance internet safety and security. The partnership builds on PTA's 114-year history of advocacy on behalf of children and Facebook's efforts to create a trusted environment for its more than 400 million users.
In addition to creating comprehensive and engaging resources, PTA and Facebook are committing to aggressively promote internet safety to their respective audiences. National PTA will use its web site, and actively reach out to the 24,000 local PTAs across the country with a goal of reaching every American public school. Facebook will raise awareness of the resources among the hundreds of millions of parents, teachers and children using its service through an in-kind Facebook commitment equivalent to $1 million and promotion on other parts of the site, including the safety center.
"Our vision is that each child, parent and teacher will have the knowledge and tools they need to harness the power of the Internet effectively – and safely," says Charles J. “Chuck” Saylors, National PTA President.
As the largest volunteer child advocacy association in the nation and an Alliance Partner since 2008, the National PTA reminds the country of its obligations to children and provides parents and families with a powerful voice to speak on behalf of every child while providing the best tools for parents to help their children be successful students. Working in tandem with many national education, health, safety, and child advocacy groups National PTA collaborates on projects that benefit children and that bring valuable resources to its members.
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