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Domestic Violence, DV By Proxy, Psychological Abuse, Custodial Interference, Coercive Control, Parental Alienation, Hostile Aggressive Parenting, Brainwashing, Cult, Reunification, Debunking, Reintegration, or Court Ordered Family Therapy, Visitation Issues, Psychological Kidnapping, or the Living Death of not having your child in your life.
PAS Intervention (PASI) is a federally recognized 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded in 1996 with a mandate to confront, expose, and ultimately end psychological abuse in all its forms. For three decades, PASI has served as the leading global voice for families destroyed by parental alienation, custodial interference, coercive control, institutional abuse, and systemic manipulation. With over 50 active chapters worldwide, PASI has grown from a grassroots advocacy effort into a multi-faceted organization spanning direct services, legislative advocacy, professional training, public education, and international coalition building.
We believe in healing, preserving, protecting children and their families because Custodial Interference is not healthy for children and other living things.
Our Story:
Founded
Founded in the state of Connecticut, PASI understands and acknowledges the trauma parents and children have gone thru and the bravery it takes to pick up the phone or email asking for help. We respect and provide relentless support and believe in the importance that all healthy parents must be a beacon of hope for their children and be the healthy parent to support their children.
Founded in July 1996, by Joan Kloth-Zanard, PASI was officially established as a 501c3 non-profit on June 21, 2011. We have over 50 chapters around the world. PASI strives to prevent and intervene in positive ways to stop the destruction of parent-child relationships that are being perpetrated by the other parent, extended family member or an agency. When a person or agency interferes with a healthy parent-child bond, they are actually using psychological abuse. We provide 24/7 crisis management.
Our focus is to prevent and intervene in the snowball effect of this type of hostile and aggressive parenting that leads to psychological and systemic abuse. A major part of this
organization's work involves online support groups that have been running since 2000 for mothers, fathers, grandparents and family members whose relationship with their children is or has been impeded. PASI provides FREE services.
The founder and executive board members have personally experienced the silent epidemic that they each felt must be acknowledged which are affecting mothers and fathers. They saw the problem of abuse they were dealing with daily needed to be addressed.
Current research indicates over 22 million adults have been targets of parental blocked access of children in the United States. An estimated 10 million adults have experienced what they perceive to be severe trauma from their children. Even so, the clinical problem of parental psychological abuse has been underreported and underappreciated in the public at large. It is a silent epidemic that is destroying and impacting our nation. PASI was started to help all genders and children of all races, colors, creeds, nationalities, from all economic levels to put an end to this abuse in the United States and internationally.
PAS Intervention (PASI) Mission
In 2026, PASI formally adopted the Violence Against Humanity (VAH) mission framework to describe the full spectrum of psychological abuse the organization addresses. The VAH framework recognizes that parental alienation, custodial interference, coercive control, institutional abuse, and systemic manipulation share common mechanisms of harm and should be understood, researched, and prosecuted under a unified paradigm. PASI remains the organizational entity; VAH is the mission lens through which all programs are designed and delivered.
PAS Intervention (PASI) leads the global movement to end psychological abuse in all its forms—parental alienation, custodial interference, coercive control, institutional abuse, and systemic manipulation—as accountable acts of violence against humanity. We champion the peer-reviewed science that proves these behaviors cause profound and lasting harm to children, parents, families, and communities. We stand on the foundational truth that the family bond—the relationship between a child and each loving parent—is sacred, and that its deliberate destruction is among the gravest harms that can be inflicted on a human being.
We stand unequivocally in defense of the researchers, clinicians, evaluators, and expert witnesses whose evidence-based work identifies and intervenes in psychological abuse—professionals who, precisely because they follow the science and speak the truth in adversarial proceedings, face retaliation, coordinated professional attacks, frivolous litigation, weaponized licensing complaints, and organized campaigns engineered to discredit and silence them. No legitimate system of justice can function when the qualified professionals it depends upon are systematically targeted for destruction. The suppression of expert testimony is not a victory for any party—it is a catastrophic failure for the entire family system, because when those who are trained and ethically obligated to identify harm are driven from the field, courts lose the very evidence they need to protect children, hold accountable those who cause harm, and deliver the interventions that could restore fractured families. We refuse to accept a landscape in which professional cowardice replaces professional courage, and we will resource, support, and stand beside every professional who refuses to be silenced.
Every family fractured by unchecked psychological abuse represents a failure of the systems entrusted to protect them.
We champion legislation that protects every victim—regardless of gender, role, or circumstance—and we drive systemic reform across every jurisdiction where courts, agencies, and institutions hold power over the lives of children and families. Family preservation, reunification, and genuine healing are not aspirational ideals; they are obligations that every system entrusted with a family's fate must be held to. We are building toward a world where no child is severed from a safe, loving parent by manipulation or institutional failure; where no parent is erased from their child's life through fraud, coercion, or systemic indifference; where no family is destroyed by abuse that masquerades as protection—or by protection that functions as abuse; where no human being is subjected to coercive psychological control and told it is love; where no professional is annihilated for presenting truthful, evidence-based testimony; and where no person who inflicts harm on a child or family escapes the full weight of accountability. This is not advocacy for one side of a courtroom. This is a demand that every system built to serve families actually serves them.
Tagline
Reuniting Families. Restoring Voices. Reclaiming Justice
Our Mission: Eradicate parental psychological abuse in the lives of all families
We are an international non-profit offering support and advocacy to parents and children
experiencing the unfathomable pain and trauma experienced by families affected by blocked access between parent and child. We provide instruction to professionals to educate them on the dynamics of this psychological and systemic abuse.
