Putting Family First works to raise awareness about the crucial connections between parents and children, and helps families find balance in their lives.

This balance has become gravely out of whack for many families of all social classes, and retrieving family life requires a public, grass roots movement generated and sustained by families themselves.

Vision: A community committed to Putting Family First.

Mission: Putting Family First is a grassroots, community wide organization, raising awareness about finding balance in our over-scheduled lives.

Desired Future for Families:

Families make family time and family activities a high priority in their decision making. Families set conscious limits on the scheduling of outside activities, in order to honor the values they hold about family time.

Families set limits on television, the Internet and other electronic media if these are dominating family life inside the home. Families seek out ways to participate together in activities that build and serve their communities.

Desired Future for the Community:

Schools, faith communities, neighborhoods, and other groups provide families with resources to develop deeper bonds in a fragmenting world. Schools, faith communities, neighborhoods and other groups offer regular intergenerational activities, so that whole families can participate. Community activity groups of all kinds have explicit working policies that acknowledge, support, and respect families' decisions to make family time a priority. Employers have explicit working policies that honor families' time and energy needs.