Michael O’Neal is a founder of Parent University and now serves as the Executive Director of Community United Services Inc., which is the entity that manages the Parent University program. O’Neal has been the chief steward of this grass roots community-based program since its inception in Savannah in 1999. Currently Michael is facilitating Parent University and its component pieces in several other cities throughout the US. Since 1999, Parent University has been providing resources to families with the goal of parents becoming their children’s first teacher.