CPA-PAA Awareness Ribbon
AWARENESS RIBBON
CPA-PAA Awareness Ribbon
A survivor-led symbol for child psychological abuse related to “parental alienation” and abduction, honoring children who have been harmed, silenced, erased, or lost.
WHAT IT REPRESENTS
A Symbol for Children, Survivors, and the Ones We Lost
The CPA-PAA Awareness Ribbon was created to raise awareness of child psychological abuse related to “parental alienation” and abduction. It speaks to the children who are still living inside coercive family systems, the adults carrying the long-term effects, and the children whose lives were lost to systems, secrecy, suicide, filicide, runaway survival, or prolonged erasure.
Salmon and Purple
The intertwined salmon and purple were chosen as inclusive awareness colors, not gender-based colors. Members of the LGBTQ+ community reviewed and approved the color scheme so the ribbon could remain welcoming, neutral, and survivor-centered.
White Wings
The wings honor children lost to these harms and represent the survivor-led commitment to remember them, protect others, and refuse silence.
Rising Together
The wings also symbolize collective strength: survivors, advocates, families, clinicians, and professionals rising together to name harm and protect children.
WHY AWARENESS MATTERS
The Ribbon Makes Hidden Harm Easier to Name
Children affected by CPA-PAA may be misread as resistant, confused, disloyal, difficult, or “caught in the middle,” when the deeper pattern may include coercive control, psychological capture, concealment, abduction dynamics, identity disruption, and long-term relational harm.
The ribbon creates a visible point of recognition for abuse that is often minimized, euphemized, or hidden behind family-court language.
HOW TO USE THE RIBBON
Display It With Care, Context, and Purpose
The ribbon can be shared as an awareness symbol in survivor-led education, conference materials, advocacy conversations, professional training, and public awareness work. Whenever it is used, the meaning should remain clear: this symbol honors children and adult survivors of child psychological abuse related to “parental alienation” and abduction.
Use It to Start the Conversation
The ribbon gives advocates, survivors, and professionals a simple way to point toward a more precise conversation about child psychological abuse, coercive control, abduction dynamics, and the long-term impact on adult survivors.
Use It to Remember
The wings carry grief and remembrance. The ribbon is not only about awareness; it is also about honoring the children and survivors whose stories were dismissed, erased, or never heard in time.
SURVIVOR-LED AWARENESS
Help Make the Invisible Visible
Thrivers Speak® uses survivor-informed education, speaking, publishing, and professional collaboration to bring adult survivor intelligence into the rooms where children’s safety, family systems, and long-term harm are being discussed.
