“PLTI, to me, means reunion, the return to connection, care, and community after isolation and alienation. It means permission becoming a part of. It means taking parents who have grown accustomed to seeing only their shortcomings, only the ways by which they’ve failed to give their children what they know kids deserve, and who are so exhausted from trying to redeem themselves, taking those undervalued shepherds of our future, and showering them with love, dignity, and respect until they step into the power of their role, their place in the community, and their power as the spearheads of change, the members who bring the rest of the world back into a family.”