TRAPPED: A VR Detective Story

Radical Empathy Education Foundation has trained over 7000 public school students, parents, professionals, and medical university students through their award-winning virtual reality experience, TRAPPED: A VR Detective Story. This information is from their website.

In the experience, you direct and control an interactive story and discover clues of how a young girl became a victim through manipulation and coercion.

The immersive, computer-generated Virtual Reality simulation (not a linear movie) puts you in the shoes of a victim who explains why she cannot ask for help.

Lisa’s story changes your perspective of human trafficking in 15 minutes.

Parents and children come back to our events year after year and tell us how their lives had been improved because the VR experience gave them a better understanding of human vulnerabilities. It is so fulfilling to see positive change.

This phenomenal tool was built for middle schools, high schools, universities, advocacy groups, fundraisers, and anyone that wants to make a difference.

From our trainings across America, the stories are endless. Parents recommit to their families and quit their 2nd or 3rd jobs to spend more time as a family. Kids reconnect with their estranged parents. Teachers help their students locate local services to help them with their at home situations. It’s a powerful tool.

“Interactive learning is six times better than passively watching videos or reading. A study from Carnegie Mellon University shows that students using interactive learning out-perform students only learning through instructional videos by a factor of six to one.” – Billy Joe Cain

This program works for youth, parents, and adults because it virtually puts you in Lisa’s shoes. Lisa is a 14 year old girl who tells you how she met a boy online who recognized her vulnerabilities and gave her the attention and love she was not receiving from her family and friends.

It’s a situation that’s all too real, and anyone can fall for it because these traffickers (and abusers) take advantage of what makes us human.

 

The articles below refer to TRAPPED: A VR Detective Story.