Mission & Strategy

Mission
The Bay Area Parent Leadership Action Network (PLAN) is a regional network working to unite and strengthen diverse parents and organizations to promote education justice through training, leadership development, organizing, and advocacy.

Strategies

LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
Developing parents as leaders is at the heart of PLAN’s mission and parents are involved in every facet of PLAN’s work—from participating in trainings and actions, to speaking at hearings and legislative visits, to governing the organization.

TRAINING
PLAN provides training experiences to promote parents as partners and leaders in schools and communities, directly serving more than 450 low income and immigrant Bay Area parents and parent organizations per year.

ORGANIZING
PLAN’s membership of low and moderate income parents of color and parent-led organizations meets monthly to develop parent-led, regional campaigns on education justice issues and build the power and consciousness of grassroots parent leaders to achieve systemic change in the education system.

ADVOCACY
PLAN provides opportunities for leaders to exercise their new skills by educating other parents and speaking directly to decision makers about the reality of their lives and changes they would like to see. PLAN parent leaders affect systemic policy change by participating in campaigns and actions, both statewide and at their school sites.