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parents advocating collectively

for kin

A grass roots initiative founded to address the needs, rights and issues facing women and gender-diverse parents who are at a disproportionate risk of having their children apprehended into government care.

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Community

We are here to help with an aray of community resources around you

advocacy

Our skilled team is here to help you navigate the system and be a voice on your behalf

peer training

Helping our peers learn the ropes with various outlined programs

networking

We assist in getting you in touch with helpful networks  

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Actively keeping

Families Together

PACK works to overcome barriers and to address the disproportionate, systemic harms that impact our community. PACK fights for the rights and needs of mothers and gender-diverse parents who also have lived and/or living experience with substance use and who live with the constant risk of harmful engagement from government agencies." Making communication easier.

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Our Vision

Territorial Acknowledgment

The work of PACK can not be undertaken without clear acknowledgment of the atrocities that colonization has caused the Indigenous people of British Coumbia.

In solidarity, we honour the land on which we work and live as the traditional and ancestral lands of our Indigenous brothers, sisters and siblings as we fight to help address the tyranny impacting Indigenous mothers and birthing parents in BC today.

Much of PACK’s work is done in Vancouver BC, the stolen and unceded, occupied territory of the Coast Salish peoples Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lō and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations.

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October 24, 2017

Photography by Nate Edwards/BYU

© BYU PHOTO 2017
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Mom and dad and their two young children sit around a field after playing some family soccer together. The oldest, an elementary-age boy, has his arm around mom and has a big smile on his face. Little sister is pointing up at the sky.

testimonials

Kayla Swan

Client
Last year was the hardest year of my adult life. After the death of my spouse in August then in October my kids and i became homeless being pretty deep in active addiction i by the grace of god was reached out to by a member of PACK. i was waiting for a bed in a treatment center. PACK has helped my family in so many ways... paying for a hotel room for the month of December so i could have chrismas with my kids. They paid for my way to Vancouver to Heartwood center for Women. They were able to bring one of my kids so she wouldnt be so anxious while i was away for the 90 day program. While i was there they supported me with funds to be able to get what i needed for the 3 months in the treatment center. Midway through, they were able too bring my mom and my kids to see me over night in a hotel as well as paid for a movie and dinner so the trip would be memorable for my babies and I . They even brought my #1 supporter my Mom to suprise me for my grad from Heartwood. I have been given so many blessings and am now in the process of being able to become a member of the organization that i will forever hold so close to my Heart. With their ongoing support i am hoping to remain in sobriety and one day help others in whatever ways i can. Im not sure a thank you to them would be enough. This is just the begininng of the relationship i will have with PACK. Forever Grateful
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