MEDIA INFORMATION CONCERNING THE NEED FOR CHANGE TO CHILD PROTECTION

Here is a media information sheet prepared by People Assisting Parents Association, or PAPA

It was specifically directed to media in view of a protest being held in Kamloops, B.C. by proponents of change to Child Protection services in B.C. and elsewhere in Canada. The specific subject is a woman named Velvet Martin, a significant voice for change.

Date: Thu, July 25, 2013 10:30 AM

I'm glad you have offered to do an interview covering this event.
The protest is a bit last minute and as such may not get a huge turnout, but regardless, the issues are important, but largely unknown by the general public.

Velvet Martin would be one of the "rock stars" of proponents of improving the state of families that have been targeted by child protection systems. Velvet was able to single handedly get "Samantha’s Law" passed in Alberta the name of her daughter who she was obligated to "sign over" to the Province's child protection system just to receive the care the government refused to provide if she did not do so. Other Provinces and U.S. States continue to contact her to find out how she managed that feat, because they also want similar legislation.

PROTECTING CANADIAN CHILDREN PROTEST THURSDAY JAN 31

A blogger and social activist with the pen name Papa Inbc has written the following invitation to all advocates for policy and operational change to the Provincial ministry known as the Ministry of Children and Family Development. He wrote this in a public forum, the Facebook page known as ‘Help Bring LittleAutistic Girl Back to her Daddy.’ 

Papa has his own advocacy online voice called PAPA (People Assisting Parents Association). with many stirring accounts and unapologetic criticism of current MCFD practice. And now, please read the invitation to participate in a protest that is coming soon. 

SAMANTHA LAUREN MARTIN - COURT RESUMES TODAY / 478

Samantha Lauren Martin June 4, 1993 - December 3, 2006

With a song by Avril Lavigne a nicely laid out video tribute in Celebration of the Importance of Life & Loving Memory of a young girl named Samantha Lauren Martin shows you her brief life as well as the sought after objective of birth parents who did not have her in their home most of her life and for whom they now seek inquiry and closure. Her death inspired Samantha's Law.

Her parents are John and Velvet Martin. On Jan. 17, 2011 they finally obtained 'a fatality inquiry' into the death of their severely disabled 13-year-old daughter Samantha who died unexpectedly. It is happening this morning. (Samantha Martin Public Fatality Inquiry / Court reconvenes today, Friday, March 18th at 9:30 am. Edmonton Provincial Court, Room 449, Law Courts, 1A Sir Winston Churchill Square, Edmonton, AB T5J 0R2)