Our Future Aspiration
PACTL envisions uniting youth, parents, and professionals to shape caring social policies that ensure equal access to opportunities and resources for all community members.
Our Core Purpose
PACTL's mission is to rebuild community connections by empowering residents to actively participate in creating equitable policies and sustainable change through collaborative partnerships.
Our Guiding Beliefs
We use strength-based transformation, focusing on community assets and potential rather than deficits. Through positive deviance, we identify and amplify what already works within our community.
Our leadership is based on the Servant Leadership model where staff and board members serve the community's self-identified needs, empowering community members to drive program design and implementation.
We see ourselves as care-takers and value reciprocity. Every community member brings skills, knowledge, and assets. Success is measured collectively, not individually.
We practice shared leadership with distributed authority across board members, staff, youth, parents, and professionals through weekly community meetings and participatory planning.
We model a different way of engagement: Action-engagement with measurable and sustainable results that create lasting positive change in our communities.
We choose to explore alternatives instead of complaints, building on existing resources, relationships, and cultural wisdom for sustainable change.
Our principles are our foundation for organizing and guide every decision we make in serving our community.