By Janet Edwards | President
We have had a very busy summer!
Here's what we want to share with you and keep up dated on the continual impact your contributions make out in the world with children.
Funding
We applied for several grants and won 2 of them!
Monthly Donations - our goal is to raise our monthly donations, we are currently at $125/mo with GlobalGiving up to $400/month we are starting in 2023. If you would like to be part of that, please let us know. GlobalGiving has a 200% match on the 4th month program which is pretty cool.
Plus we generated revenue on training youth at the Boys and Girls Clubs in Orlando and we are expanding into the fall!
Mission Ambassadors and Interns
We continue to build. We gained 8 new Mission Ambassadors and two volunteers, 3 of which are out in South Dakota.
We had 4 new interns for Summer, with 3 carry over. We have 2 new for Fall with new more carry over - total of 5
Parent Tech Talks
June – Parenting Beyond the Rules – Connie Albers
July – ACES Matter - Cendie Sanford
Aug – Digital Empowerment - Matt Richardson, Sr. Director for ATII -
Sept - Power of Positive Childhood Experiences - Tammy -Toney Bulter, Founder, Nurses United Against Trafficking.
You can watch these on our Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCB08mbeRx4mqPwL3Bt3ulYg
Parents continue to thank us for sharing such valubable information and we are forever grateful for our community around the world for sharing their brilliance with you.
Youth Training
We trained 240 students at Eau Gaille HS in May and look forward to going back this fall.
Over the Summer, we trained 150 kids for Orange County Sheriff’s, 300 kids for Boys and Girls Clubs, 25 Girls and Boys Clubs Directors, 25 Home School Parents, 50 Dads on the Rise, 36 Youth and 35 Parents from New Life Church, SD.
Jan was a panelist and moderator for the Modern Slavery Summit in Australia - gotta love zoom. She's been invited to speak at the local Childrens Cabinets and the SWFL Human Trafficking Coalition Presentation. We are now also a part of the Hillsbourogh County Public School Human Trafficking Task Force!
We added 8 new Mission Ambassadors and 4 new Interns. We continue to grow and expand thanks to you!
Community Events/Speaking Opportunities
We did our first presentation in French over the summer! Very grateful for the opportunity to expand our education. Honored to be a part of the Children’s Advocacy Center Certificate program - we gave two presentations over the summer.
Grateful to have traveled to DC with one of our Survior Leaders to advocate for legislation to protect kids online with NCOSE. We have over 30 meetings and movement happened. We love advocating and educating our leaders what's happening in their backyard. We traveled to South Dakota to work with our Survivor Leader Lin Ruth to bring Florida Legislation to South Dakota.
Being a go to host with One World Orlando, who works with the State Department to host international Law Enforcement Leaders twice this summer, including new friends from Kosovo.
With the World Games the summer, had the opportunity to be part of a Recovery Operation to learn the back end operations of looking to recover missing and trafficked children. Happy to share we recovered 7 of the 12 girls.
Would have to say the bright spot of our outreach was being a vendor at the Florida Kids and Family Expo - we saw and educated hundreds of kids and parents. We played trivia jenga - it was just enough time to engage with the kids and to talk with the parents about ways to keep their kids safe.
Highlights:
We were accepted and Completed UCF Capacity Building Program setting us up to apply for local grants! Our President has beeh invited by Valencia/UCF Colab for Human Trafficking Educational Book Author along with several nationally written articles.
Upcoming Events
We traveled back up to DC to emplore Senators to co-sponsor the Earn it Act, Kids Onlline Safety Act and the No Trafficking Zone Act. We'll be attending the Florida Statewide Human Trafficking Summit in early October and then we'll be reaching out to the tribal communities at the Black Hills Pow Wow in South Dakota and following up on getting legislation into their next session.
We have been invited to participated several events this fall at schools and community leaders and will be actively speaking at several events as well to continue our mission of educating and empowering youth and families.
Mark your calendars for 11/20 - it'sa our annual light up the night with Lights on For Children! For more information on what you can do to help check the website out here: https://lightsonforchildren.org/
Thank you for you continued support and belief in this mission.
Our children are waiting for us to come make a difference for them and educate them on how to stop the online predition of our kids.
May the Lord continue to keep and protect you!
Jan
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By Janet Edwards | President
By Janet Edwards | President
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