Suffolk Region PTA
Executive Committee
Region Director
Jacqueline Wilson
email: regiond@suffolkpta.org
Associate Director - Coordinator of Organizational Outreach
Kathy Vento
email: vento@suffolkpta.org
Associate Director for Assistant Directors
Lori Fontana
email: lfontana@suffolkpta.org
Associate Director-Coordinator of Special Events
Kathy Williams
email: cspecialevents@suffolkpta.org
Associate Director - Coordinator of Chairmen - Programs
Karen Steigert
email: ksteigert@suffolkpta.org
Associate Director - Coordinator of Chairmen-Advocacy
Joyce Cattani
email: jcattani@suffolkpta.org
Recording Secretary
Debbie Grayer
email: dgrayer@suffolkpta.org
Corresponding Secretary
Joanie Zangerle
email: info@suffolkpta.org
Treasurer
Joan Wadnik
email: treasurer@suffolkpta.org
Immediate Past Region Director
Doris Fischer
email: dfischer@suffolkpta.org
PTA promotes and supports opportunities for families to effectively participate in their children's lives.
*PTA helps members connect to teachers and administrators to increase communication between school and home.
*PTA cares about and acts on issues that matter most to families and students: safe schools, quality teachers, healthy lifestyles and arts education.
*Families turn to PTA for advice, from handling homework to helping your child choose career goals.
*PTA helps local leaders plan events and involve families with national resources, tools, and training.
PTA promotes and supports opportunities for families to effectively participate in their children's lives.
*PTA helps members connect to teachers and administrators to increase communication between school and home.
*PTA cares about and acts on issues that matter most to families and students: safe schools, quality teachers, healthy lifestyles and arts education.
*Families turn to PTA for advice, from handling homework to helping your child choose career goals.
*PTA helps local leaders plan events and involve families with national resources, tools, and training.
Students achieve when families and teachers partner through PTA to ensure are safe and healthy.
*PTA encourages family-school involvement programs that link learning and student success.
*PTA's National Standards for Family-School Partnerships emphasize what parents, schools, and communities can do together to support student success.
*PTA partners with other groups that share and support our mission to positively impact children's lives.
*PTA recognizes excellence in schools that welcome parents'
participation.
*PTA empowers families to speak out on local, state, and national issues that effect children's education, health and welfare.
PTA connects schools and communities to help children reach their full potential.
*PTA brokers partnerships with organizations and businesses to expand learning options, such as after-school programs.
*PTA collaborates with national sponsors to offer resources, programs and member benefits, like retail discounts.
*PTA increases the level of family and community involvement in underserved areas for all children to succeed.
*PTA members serve as advisors and leaders for government agencies, non-profits and school boards to voice the needs of all families and children.
