9:00 AM Registration : Town Center Lobby Entrance
10:00 AM Welcome: Main Conference Hall
Colonel Jeffrey Katz, Chief of Police, Chesterfield County
Brent Timberlake, Esq., Capital One
Jennifer Miller, M.Ed, ImPACT Volunteer Director of Special Events and Community Engagement
10:15 AM Keynote Address : Main Conference Hall
Eve N. Birge, Office of Safe and Healthy Students
United States Department of Education
"Why did we create the brief Human Trafficking in America's Schools?"
11:00 AM Spotlight Presentation : Main Conference Hall
"Use Your Power: Don't Ignore the Deceptions"
Wendy Barnes, Survivor Expert, Author
Guido Hajenius, Engagement Coordinator, iEMPATHIZE
12:00 Noon - 1:00 PM LUNCH
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
CONCURRENT SESSIONS A & B
SESSION A: Theater (adults only)
THE iEMPATHIZE
Adult Prevention Approach Workshop
SESSION B: Main Conference Hall (all are invited)
Arts-based Teaching and Learning
Join The LANCER THEATER COMPANY from Manchester High School and the APSARAS ARTS DANCE GROUP as they teach about human trafficking through art forms. Lancer theater students will present a dramatic reading of Maya Angelou's poem STILL I RISE. The Apsaras group will present a dance based on the poem The TRINITY OF TRAFFICKING to the musical score LAST EXIT TO BROOKLYN.
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
CONCURRENT SESSIONS C & D
SESSION C: Main Conference Hall (Registered youth only)
THE EMPOWER YOUTH PREVENTION WORKSHOP
SESSION D: Theater (adults only)
2:15 - 2:45 PM
"Health Risks and the Impact of Sex Trafficking on Youth" Robin Foster, MD
2:45 - 3:15 PM
"For Parents and Caregivers: What you can do to Protect your Child and Others from Commercial Sexual Exploitation"
- Tanya Street, Survivor Expert
3:15 - 3:45 PM
"Exposing the Role of the Internet in the Sex Trafficking of Youth" - Monti Datta, PhD
4:00 PM: Main Conference Hall
Call to Action and Raffle Drawing
4:15 PM: Adjourn
"You can look the other way, but you can never again say that you did not know." - William Wilberforce (1759 - 1833)
- Wilberforce was an English politician and leader of a campaign to eradicate the slave trade. That campaign led to the Slavery Abolition Act 1833, which abolished slavery in most of the British Empire. Wilberforce died just three days after hearing that the passage of the Act through Parliament was assured. We are honored to be following in his footsteps.