Parents’ Advocacy Platform for Action (PAPA)

Organize your collective action group today with turnkey tools and infrastructure

The first platform built for local parent advocacy. Our grassroots advocacy platform automates tools proven to change the cultural norms away from technology-first and toward a healthy childhood. Becoming an advocate has never been easier.

Grassroots Parent Advocacy as a Service

Focus on making an impact, not on managing the tools.

Platform Features

The fastest and easiest way to start your local parent-led advocacy group.

Organizing Playbook

Step by step playbook that combines the best practices of the Four Norms Collective and the tools to get them done. We’ll walk you through it.

Action Center Website

Action focused website with all of the latest research and best practices built-in. Engage your local parent advocates and assign them actions to take.

Email Groups and Newsletters

Drive action and clarity for your campaign. Inform your parent advocates through newsletters and survey them to gather feedback.

Advocacy Campaigns

Invite local parents to your group, gather signatures or to send a support letter to local officials. No manual work needed. Our automated templates, letters and petitions get you to action sooner.

Access to the full network of collective impact organizations in the Four Norms Collective

Grow your groups’s impact through our Collective Action Hub. With one click, join and activate collective impact aligned organizations already doing great work tackling the Four Foundational Norms.

Launching Fall 2024

Join our waitlist now to gain access to our playbook and suite of tools as soon as it launches.

FAQs

  • By far the biggest strain on modern parenthood is Tech related. It’s not the only challenge, but it exacerbates most of the others. Further, Tech platforms are relentless in their pursuit of our attention. This creates a scenario where it’s very difficult for individual parents to thrive. It’s important in this moment to take action together, to reclaim our connection with our children in a digital world.

  • Parents of all school-aged children who have concerns about how Technology and Social Media are impacting their family.

  • Of course. Visit our Roadmap section to find links to learn more about each organization and solution.

  • Start here, with the 1st norm, and walk through each one to see more resources and actions to take.

    We will be adding more ideas and actions soon. For now, we recommend checking out all of the great organztions listed over on The Anxious Generation website.

  • The Four Norms Collective is a coalition of collective impact organizations directly working on one of the Four Foundational Norms that Jonathan Haidt has made popular.

    Each organization is doing important work on one area or another. And collectively, we are all pushing to change the cultural norms away from Technology centered and back toward childhood centered.