Survivor Representation Initiative
Why this exists
Representation should be more than a theme.
For decades, professionals have studied child psychological abuse, parental alienation, abduction, and family systems harm. Adult survivors have often been the subject of those conversations, but not always invited into the room as contributors, educators, researchers, or speakers.
The Survivor Representation Initiative helps remove the financial barriers that prevent adult survivor voices from being present at conferences, professional gatherings, policy conversations, and public education opportunities.
Representation is not symbolic. It requires access, preparation, travel, registration, time away from work, and support.
Current opportunity
PASG 2026 in Perth, Australia
Dawn McCarty has been accepted to present at the Parental Alienation Study Group Conference in Perth, Australia.
Accepted presentation
The Alienated Child’s Mind is a Crime Scene: Forensic Criminological Threat Assessment of Coercive Control
This presentation brings together lived experience, criminology, cybersecurity threat modeling, and survivor advocacy to help professionals better understand severe child psychological abuse related to parental alienation and abduction.
Why sponsorship matters
International survivor participation is expensive. Many adult survivors do not have university funding, institutional travel budgets, or professional sponsorship behind them.
Your support helps place survivor-informed expertise in front of an international audience of clinicians, researchers, legal professionals, mental health professionals, family systems advocates, policy influencers, and adult survivors.
This is not simply travel support. It is an investment in representation.
Impact
Your support helps place survivor voices in the room.
When survivor voices are present, the conversation changes. Lived experience adds evidence, context, pattern recognition, and moral clarity to conversations that too often happen at a distance from the people most affected.
Nothing About Us, Without Us becomes real when survivor participation becomes possible.
Estimated sponsorship need
Sponsorship levels
Choose the level that fits your support.
Supporter
Helps offset basic travel and conference-related costs.
Advocate
Supports survivor participation and public education.
Representation sponsor
Helps make adult survivor expertise visible in professional spaces.
Mission sponsor
Provides meaningful support toward international conference participation.
Major sponsor
Helps cover a major portion of travel, lodging, or registration expenses.
Lead sponsor
Provides primary support for survivor representation at PASG 2026.
Sponsor recognition
Recognition for mission-aligned support.
Sponsors may be recognized through website acknowledgements, social media thank-you posts, logo placement for organizational sponsors, recognition as Survivor Representation supporters, and post-conference impact updates.
Organizational sponsorships
Organizations interested in supporting survivor representation, mental health awareness, CPA-PAA education, child psychological abuse prevention, or survivor-informed professional education are invited to contact Thrivers Speak directly.
Help put survivor voices in the room.
Your support helps ensure that lived experience stands alongside research, clinical practice, legal advocacy, and professional expertise.
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Thrivers Speak is building pathways for adult survivor-informed participation in the professional spaces where these issues are researched, discussed, and shaped.
