Mission

Parents Who Lead

Greater Rochester Parent Leadership Training Institute (PLTI) is a local initiative of the National Parent Leadership Institute, an evidence-based program designed to increase parent involvement in community issues. After PLTI began in Connecticut in 1992, the Monroe County-based Early Childhood Development Initiative worked to bring PLTI to the Rochester community. Greater Rochester PLTI began in 2012.

PLTI empowers parents to reach their goals of raising successful children in dynamic communities. This parent-informed, nonpartisan initiative aims to increase civic leadership, impact parents’ roles at home and in their communities, and train parents to become better advocates for themselves and their children. Parents’ voices are often unheard, though their motivation to advocate change on their children’s behalf is unparalleled. Greater Rochester PLTI helps them obtain the skills to become leading advocates for change.





Mission

The mission of the Greater Rochester Parent Leadership Training Institute is to build bridges and advocacy skills to support parents becoming leading advocates for children.

Parents’ opinions are often unheard. They lack the skills, but not the motivation or will to change their children’s lives. PLTI teaches parents how to become practiced change agents for the next generation to improve the lifelong health, safety, and learning of children.

PLTI differentiates itself by embracing a cross-race, cross-class, and parent-informed, pro-social educational approach.




PLTI At A Glance

  • PLTI has been training parent leaders in Rochester since 2012.
  • Intentionally diverse cohorts learn strategies for community engagement in PLTI’s immersive 21-week program.
  • Trainings are completely free for participants.
  • Children of participants may join the Children’s Leadership Training Institute, a parallel program that supports leadership development and civic engagement for children.
  • Our parent leaders come from across our region and numerous different school districts—Rochester, Brighton, Irondequoit, Pittsford, Hilton, Greece, Gates, Henrietta and beyond.
  • PLTI alumni are change agents in their homes, schools and the community and are more likely than non-alumni to attend public meetings, vote and serve on a committee as an officer.
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