Anti-Trafficking Groups

Each item relates in some way to a group, organization, or community that has a major or minor focus on ending trafficking.

Examples: law enforcement, a specific non-profit, or even an individual advocate who speaks for others.

Tarrant County 5 Stones November 2023 Meeting
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Tarrant County 5 Stones November 2023 Meeting

Here is our recorded meeting link and chat notes for our November 2023 TC 5 Stones meeting! Our 5 Stones meeting this November consisted of some law enforcement updates, a year-end review, and an awards presentation celebrating some of our amazing community influencers. Link to the recorded meeting: The chat log is how our online audience is able to introduce…

Transformative Virtual Reality Training: A Breakthrough Approach to Combating Human Trafficking
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Transformative Virtual Reality Training: A Breakthrough Approach to Combating Human Trafficking

TRAPPED: A VR Detective Story is an amazing tool to educate people about human trafficking that can be licensed from Radical Empathy Education Foundation (reefcares.org). Read the interactive script here. Introduction In the ever-evolving landscape of education and training, innovative methods are crucial for addressing complex and sensitive topics such as human trafficking. Virtual reality…

Emerging Predatory AI and Bot Technology used by Human Traffickers to Exploit our most Vulnerable Youth
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Emerging Predatory AI and Bot Technology used by Human Traffickers to Exploit our most Vulnerable Youth

Billy Joe and David joined the BEST Community Collaborative Network Zoom today to share some of their research with their attendees. Here’s the thing. The Internet is dangerous. And parents are tossing their kids into it. I try to explain it’s just like dropping your kid off on the side of a megahighway and driving…

Tarrant County 5 Stones October 2023 Meeting
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Tarrant County 5 Stones October 2023 Meeting

Here is our recorded meeting link and chat notes for our October 2023 TC 5 Stones meeting! Our 5 Stones meeting this October consisted of some law enforcement updates and a presentation by Kirsta Melton, Founder and CEO of the Institute to Combat Trafficking, as she discussed pimp culture and the normalization of sexualization within society.  At the…

Prevention Cohort LIVE Ep 14: Making TRICKED: An American Visa Story in VR
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Prevention Cohort LIVE Ep 14: Making TRICKED: An American Visa Story in VR

https://youtu.be/RGu3vDT5v5o Welcome to the Prevention Cohort LIVE stream, sponsored by PBJ Learning In 2018, we released our first version of TRAPPED: A VR Detective Story for the HTC Vive virtual reality system. It was expensive, bulky, and you had to have an expensive computer to make it work. Now we run our app on Oculus…

Prevention Cohort LIVE Ep 13: Award-winning film creator, Chong Kim, discusses how trauma led to her Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) and how she integrated it into the film, E40S (Every 40 Seconds)
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Prevention Cohort LIVE Ep 13: Award-winning film creator, Chong Kim, discusses how trauma led to her Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) and how she integrated it into the film, E40S (Every 40 Seconds)

https://youtu.be/SWnil1Y9uJ0 Welcome to the Prevention Cohort LIVE stream, sponsored by PBJ Learning One of our advisors, Chong Kim, just completed a film that has begun collecting awards from film shows across the world. It’s called Every 40 Seconds (E40S), and the main character is based upon her life. And her personalities! Kim explains how she…

Prevention Cohort LIVE Ep 12: Making an online course, using AI to create TikTok informational videos, AI audio editing software in Premiere, and much more!
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Prevention Cohort LIVE Ep 12: Making an online course, using AI to create TikTok informational videos, AI audio editing software in Premiere, and much more!

Welcome to the Prevention Cohort LIVE stream, sponsored by PBJ Learning Tonight, we’re going to do something a little bit different. We are going to be taking a look at how we actually do this work. I have had to learn how to use all sorts of editing programs and how to create websites and…

Tarrant County 5 Stones September 2023 Meeting
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Tarrant County 5 Stones September 2023 Meeting

Here is our recorded meeting link and chat notes for our September 2023 TC 5 Stones meeting! Our 5 Stones meeting this September consisted of some law enforcement updates and a presentation by Carrie Grace, Executive Director of Freedom Shield Foundation, as she discussed the importance of self-care and avoiding burnout as service providers. Link to the recorded meeting: https://youtu.be/5OzWyCSuUHw…