Author: Billy Joe Cain

Billy Joe has spent 30 years in the interactive space, creating award-winning games, simulations, educational programs, and “gamified” training products. After he learned his children were being groomed by a sex predator, whom he had known as a friend for years, he dedicated himself to helping others that didn't understand how anything like human trafficking could happen to them. In 2021, he co-founded PBJ Learning with his partner, Dr. David Deeds, to provide online certificate-level training around the world, accurately, at scale. He is a member of the Prevention Workgroup of the Texas Human Trafficking Prevention Taskforce, Central Texas Coalition Against Human Trafficking (CTCAHT), Houston Area Against Trafficking (HAAT), and the Tarrant County 5-Stones Taskforce.

“Business Doing Good – Engaging Businesses to Hire and Empower Survivors” – from Texas’ Child Sex Trafficking Team

ByBilly Joe Cain June 10, 2021October 20, 2022

Welcome to PBJ Learning’s Knowledge Vault video series There are a lot of places to get your information. We try to bring it all together and categorize it for you to easily access through your Knowledge Vault. We hope you find what you need in this video reference material. Texas’ Child Sex Trafficking Team presents…

“What Are We Learning from Research About the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Youth (CSEY)” – from Texas’ Child Sex Trafficking Team

ByBilly Joe Cain May 13, 2021October 23, 2022

“Rebecca Bender Moved to Texas!” – from Texas’ Child Sex Trafficking Team

ByBilly Joe Cain February 11, 2021January 2, 2023

“Disrupting the Demand for Commercial Sex in Texas – Progress and Lessons Learned So Far” – from Texas’ Child Sex Trafficking Team

ByBilly Joe Cain January 14, 2021October 20, 2022

Jamey Caruthers, the leader of the CEASE (Cities Empowered Against Sexual Exploitation) Texas team and CHILDREN AT RISK Senior Staff attorney, shares what we’ve learned over the past year of CEASE work including new data on regional buyer disruptions and ad tracking during COVID, as well as a look at what the next year holds for anti-demand.

Can VR help you bake a cake? Experts say it can!

ByBilly Joe Cain May 8, 2020May 4, 2023

“Priming” is a kind of “virtual rehearsal” Imagine you’re going to bake a cake. Before you start, you need to make sure you have all the ingredients you need. You might look at a recipe to see what you need to buy. But did you know that just seeing pictures of the ingredients can make…

Police use Interactive Virtual Reality Training to Raise Awareness of Human Trafficking

ByBilly Joe Cain February 20, 2020September 1, 2023

Houston Police try ONE GENERATION™ and TRAPPED: A VR Detective Story from Radical Empathy Radical Empathy Education Foundation demonstrated their Virtual Reality training experience, TRAPPED: A VR Detective Story, at A 2nd Cup, in Houston Texas, and were honored to have a few moments with an expert in the field. Their VR experience represents the “Empathy”…

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Human Trafficking Education Survey 2019

ByBilly Joe Cain December 12, 2019February 16, 2023

Human Trafficking Prevention Education Successes and Challenges Survey 2019 These are the results of Radical Empathy’s 1st Annual Survey of Human Trafficking Awareness / Prevention Education Vendors. Organizations fighting human trafficking have helped us with this information, and their involvement have given us a look into the type of communities they serve and the tools they…

“Be The One” Video from Texas Attorney General

ByBilly Joe Cain December 1, 2019January 4, 2023

Be the One: In the Fight Against Human Trafficking Human trafficking is a media buzz word that often conjures images of brothels in Thailand or confusion with the ongoing immigration debate. This innovative digital training tool cuts through the confusion, arms the viewer with an understanding of what human trafficking is and is not, and…

Virtual Reality (VR) has become an innovative tool in the field of counseling and therapy

ByBilly Joe Cain October 9, 2019May 4, 2023

VR allows individuals to practice and become more comfortable with specific situations in a safe and controlled environment With the advancements in technology, it has become possible to create virtual environments that simulate real-life situations. This technology has been used to develop VR priming, a new approach in mental health therapy that involves immersing individuals…

Human Trafficking News: Jeffrey Epstein

ByBilly Joe Cain June 11, 2019March 12, 2023

An Opportunity to Spend Some Time Discussing this Very Real Problem in our World If you’re following the Epstein sex trafficking story, where he was involved in the operation of trafficking, recruiting, and abusing young girls that were being recruited by other young girls, that’s a good sign. That means people are finally hearing about…

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