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.
“When Seeing and Hearing is no Longer Believing” Melissa Dykes of Truthstream Media Breaks Down The Current State of the Art of AI Visuals and Audio and How it is Affecting Self-Awareness
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“When Seeing and Hearing is no Longer Believing” Melissa Dykes of Truthstream Media Breaks Down The Current State of the Art of AI Visuals and Audio and How it is Affecting Self-Awareness

Editor’s note: Melissa Dykes’ documentarian background and her extensive experience of researching very real psychological mind control techniques and their effects on a population should be taken into account (visit her IMDB page here) when watching this piece. She has a keen take on how people get manipulated by media, and this (user-generated self-images and…

Prevention Cohort LIVE Ep 9: Texas Rideshare Driver Course, What is “One Generation?”, Getting Started with One Generation
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Prevention Cohort LIVE Ep 9: Texas Rideshare Driver Course, What is “One Generation?”, Getting Started with One Generation

Welcome to the Prevention Cohort LIVE stream, sponsored by PBJ Learning This week, I’ve worked with a number of “new to VR” people and so I wanted to honor them with a place to go to gather some initial information, and I’ve also been working on the Texas Rideshare Driver course, so we’ll show you…

Getting started with One Generation Education System from Radical Empathy Education Foundation
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Getting started with One Generation Education System from Radical Empathy Education Foundation

It’s always great to start a conversation with a new potential One Generation licensee! One Generation Education System is the name for our complete Human Trafficking Prevention program, which includes TRAPPED: A VR Detective Story and our online course, Human Trafficking Essentials. Because we use newer technology, we are ready for all your questions. Purchasing…

Prevention Cohort LIVE Ep 8: HTE: Chapter 2: Prevalence, “What is Human Trafficking?” blog on Radical Empathy, Discussion about creating an online safety course for the game industry
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Prevention Cohort LIVE Ep 8: HTE: Chapter 2: Prevalence, “What is Human Trafficking?” blog on Radical Empathy, Discussion about creating an online safety course for the game industry

Welcome to the Prevention Cohort LIVE stream, sponsored by PBJ Learning Today, we go over the Prevalence of Human Trafficking, from Chapter 2 of Human Trafficking Essentials. We go over the interactive sections and I share some of the “why” the course is written and designed the way it is. Our second section is a…

Tarrant County 5 Stones August 2023 Meeting
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Tarrant County 5 Stones August 2023 Meeting

Here is our recorded meeting link and chat notes for our August 2023 TC 5 Stones meeting! Our 5 Stones meeting this August consisted of some law enforcement updates and a presentation by Sonya Brooks, Unbound Now Director of Youth Prevention, as she discussed implementation of the HTYPE prevention education grant at FWISD. Link to the recorded meeting: https://youtu.be/Q-w6I3RxUgQ Presentation:…

Radical Empathy enters into working collaboration with E40S (Every 40 Seconds) and film writer Chong Kim
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Radical Empathy enters into working collaboration with E40S (Every 40 Seconds) and film writer Chong Kim

E40S Teaser https://vimeo.com/859909464 Radical Empathy Education Foundation provides an immersive training tool that uses virtual reality to create an empathetic connection between trainees and victims of human trafficking. Children and adults learn from the VR experience to understand how children are groomed into sex trafficking or labor trafficking. Here at Radical Empathy, we support Chong…

TRAPPED: A VR Detective Story receives video recommendation from subject matter expert, Dr. LaTienda Pierre, from Louisiana State University
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TRAPPED: A VR Detective Story receives video recommendation from subject matter expert, Dr. LaTienda Pierre, from Louisiana State University

Appleseed Program boxes allow you to experience the immersion We are fortunate to have wonderful people taking Appleseed boxes with TRAPPED: A VR Detective Story pre-loaded on VR headsets across America. One of those headsets made it to the desk of LSU Shreveport‘s Dr. LaTienda Pierre.  Here’s the video and a transcript. “Tell me about…

Prevention Cohort LIVE Ep 6: AMP Model Discussion; Social Media “Human Trafficking Panic” Posts
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Prevention Cohort LIVE Ep 6: AMP Model Discussion; Social Media “Human Trafficking Panic” Posts

Come learn about new tools to end human trafficking through prevention education. We go through the AMP Model to teach the definition.

The REAL Story Of “The Sound of Freedom” | Operation Triple Take
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The REAL Story Of “The Sound of Freedom” | Operation Triple Take

Did you know the heart-pounding beach rescue depicted in “Sound of Freedom” is based on O.U.R.’s real Operation Triple Take?

Get an inside look at our undercover operators and hear their first-hand accounts of that day in 2014 as they share the harsh reality of human trafficking and the raw emotion they felt as they watched “Sound of Freedom.”

O.U.R.’s Operation Triple Take involved three simultaneous takedowns in three different Colombian cities to rescue victims of sex trafficking in 2014. On that day, 20 traffickers were arrested and 123 survivors were freed from the devastating hold of sex slavery.