Virginia's 1st Youth Safety Summit:

Empowering Youth and Adults to Avoid Exploitation, Including Human Trafficking and Commercial Sexual Exploitation

Trafficking victimization share risks and consequences associated with child maltreatment, intimate partner violence, sexual violence, and gang violence — all major public health problems that professionals across sectors are working to prevent through local, state, and national efforts. Join Robin Foster, MD, Director, Child Protection Team, Children's Hospital of Richmond @ VCU, to explore the long-lasting and far-reaching adverse health consequences of human trafficking.

Adults only. Offered while youth are in the Empower Youth Prevention Workshop.

The Internet has played a significant role in the growth of CSEC (Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children) and has made it easier for youth to be bought and sold on-line -- using the same technology that people use to sell their bike or look for a garage sale. Join Monti Datta, PhD, Professor of Political Science, University of Richmond, as he explores why the Internet is now the #1 platform for TRAFFICKERS and BUYERS.

Adults only. Offered while youth are in the Empower Youth Prevention Workshop.

Priti and Sarah are honored to choreograph and present

"THE TRINITY OF TRAFFICKING" poem with the background score of "Last Exit to Brooklyn" for Fay from ImPACT Virginia.

Mrs. Priti Gosar-Patil has been a Indian Classical Dance (Bharathanatyam) Teacher and Performer with the Apsaras Arts Dance Group, directed by Mrs. Uma Chetty for over a decade. Ms. Sarah Burke has a bachelor's degree in theater and has been studying this sacred dance form with Priti for several years. "Bharathanatyam" is an ancient classical dance form of India developed in temples for spiritual upliftment, and has retained that purpose in the modern day as a performing art. It uses rhythmic footwork, hand gestures and facial expressions for telling a wide range of stories.