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PAPA People Assisting Parents Association^[1]

PAPA is a civilian run non-profit organization formed under the Society Act on July 23, 2007 in British Columbia, Canada. Its mission is to protect the best interests of children by preserving their families and restoring healthy parenting ability. It aims to safeguard the rights and dignity of parents in child protection activities and to ensure that "child protection" social workers do not act outside their authority and mandate.

In Canada, child protection social workers are given the authority to remove children from their families.

Some facts in the child removal industry:

• Children in care are killed, sexually abused, and often receive substandard treatment ^[2]
• The Canadian government has an extremely high success rate when seeking custody order ^[3];
• The disastrous impacts on removed children (36% of kids in care are going to jail, only 24% of foster children finish high school) ^[4]
• The huge financial costs to the taxpayer ^[5] in supporting children in care.

The association provides member parents with connections to other parents going through similar situations and offers support and assistance during the period their children are in care.