About

Why PHOP exists

And why the founder is using his real name.

PHOP — Parents Helping Other Parents, pronounced P-hop — is a nonprofit project founded in 2026 by Michael Corva, a father of two daughters, in Collier County, Florida. It is deliberately built as the opposite of what already exists.

It is not spiritual warfare. It is not a prayer movement. It is not a "high-conflict co-parenting" consultancy. It is not a courtroom warfare training camp. There are plenty of those already and most of them take money from parents who do not have money to give and teach them how to hurt the other side.

PHOP does the opposite. We teach parents how to stop getting hurt, how to document, how to read the paperwork that is already free in front of them, and how to protect the child's right to grow up and decide who they want to be — which is the only thing that actually matters.

Who runs it

My name is Michael Corva. I am a father. I am pro se. I am a former middle school math teacher who spent over a decade in a classroom finding the block in a kid's head and removing it so the kid could do their own work. I did not learn that in college. I grew up in a family room in Eastchester watching Goonies on repeat and I walked into a classroom and started doing it.

In the institutional record of what happened to me I have been called, in writing, by actual people who were paid by the public to do a job:

• "Parent Michael Corva"
• "Concerned parent"
• "This difficult parent"
• "Signal 20 subject" (that is police code for mentally unstable, sourced from the primary suspect in a fraud case I was reporting)
• "Sometimes-erratic" (written before the person writing it had ever met me)
• "Someone we need a resolution for" (written by a School Resource Officer whose husband has claimed paternity of my children)
• "Him" — as in, "maybe responding might finally get him out of our hair."

I am putting those nicknames on the website on purpose. They are on the record. They are on letterhead. They were written by people paid by taxpayers. I am not going to pretend they were not written and I am not going to cower about them. You should not either, if something similar has been written about you.

What happened, the short version

Starting in August 2025, I was blocked from my daughter's middle school by an SRO with an undisclosed personal conflict of interest. In September 2025 my T-Mobile account was used to execute an unauthorized financing transaction in nine seconds on an in-store IP address. When I walked into the Marco Island Police Department to report identity theft, the responding officer consulted the store manager of the store where the fraud happened, and closed my report by labeling me mentally unstable on the word of the primary suspect. That label then became the justification every subsequent agency — CCSO, BSO, HPD, Broward OIG, FDLE, BCPS Legal — used to take no action.

I wrote every step of it down as it happened. I filed four whistleblower complaints with the Broward County Office of the Inspector General. Each was internally classified as a protected whistleblower disclosure. Each was closed within days. After each closure, the OIG transmitted a notification letter to the Police Chief of the department being complained about. The agency that was supposed to protect me was briefing the agency I was reporting.

A sergeant at HPD Internal Affairs made a false statement to a state law enforcement agent about my complaint nine days after receiving a direct introduction to the principal at my daughter's school from that same SRO. I have the introduction email. I have the receipt proving the complaint was active when the sergeant said it was closed.

Everyone around me — my lawyer, my brother, my aunts until November — told me to file in family court. I refused. I had watched what happens when a parent runs into a forum the other side controls. I was not going to hand them the venue. I took the paper trail to the state and federal agencies that are actually supposed to investigate this, and when those agencies refused, I documented that too.

My daughters are not in my arms as I write this. That is the only thing that would let me call any of this a win.

Why I am building a website instead of hiring another lawyer

I already hired a lawyer. I fired him. I fired him because he was giving me costly advice that was free and in front of me in the Florida Statutes and in the public records I had already pulled myself. That is not his fault in some abstract sense — it is how that industry is structured. It is structured so that the parent pays for information the parent already has the legal right to pull and the cognitive capacity to read.

I posted what I learned to Facebook parental advocacy groups. I posted it to X. It was throttled, blocked, removed, or quietly shadow-banned every time. I am not interested in debating whether that is censorship or algorithm. I am interested in having a piece of internet that a parent can find at 3 a.m. on the worst night of their life that cannot be throttled.

So I built this.

What PHOP will never do

• Ask you to pay to read the playbook.
• Sell your email address.
• Teach you how to attack the other parent in court.
• Teach you how to turn your child against the other parent.
• Pretend any of this is about winning a war. The kid is not a flag.
• Pretend it is legal advice. It is not. It is a parent who wrote it down.

What PHOP will do

• Show you how to document, on paper, in real time, so nobody can rewrite it later.
• Show you how to pull public records without paying anyone.
• Show you the statutes that were hidden from you.
• Show you what to do the first week, the first month, the first six months.
• Publish the stories of parents who were told they were crazy and were not.
• Stay up. Stay free. Stay honest.

If you want to help build this, see the contact page. If you are in the middle of it right now, go to the Playbook and start with "Document Everything."