Unforgettable Abuse Prevention Training
(up to and including Human Trafficking)
No one pays attention to slideshows or videos. Kids don’t listen to adults and adults want to avoid the topic of abuse entirely. Most people don’t believe abuse could happen to anyone they know.
But... Predators are professionals that use people's feelings against them, and traffickers do it for profit.
Virtual Reality headset training is the answer to protect your community.
We’re here to help YOU change the game.
Over 15,000 public school students, parents, professionals, and medical university students have received abuse prevention training through the award-winning virtual reality experience, TRAPPED: A VR Detective Story.
In the experience, you direct and control an interactive story and discover clues to how Lisa, a 14-year-old girl from the suburbs, became a victim through manipulation and coercion.
The immersive, virtual reality (VR) headset experience lets users “choose their own path” and gives you a first-person perspective of how anyone could become trapped, like Lisa.
Learn how and why it works in the PBS feature “Virtually Caring.”
Contact us to get started. ArborXR is a "mobile device manager" that makes managing a fleet of VR headsets EASY, and once you're on ArborXR, it only takes a couple of clicks to get a 30 day FULL evaluation version of our soft skills training.
Parents and children return to public events year after year and tell us how their lives were 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.
Our VR human trafficking prevention trainers across America are changing the fight against human trafficking. Dialogues are opening. Healthy conversations are happening. Children are disclosing problems. Parents are recommitting to their families. Therapists, medical professionals, and schoolteachers are connecting people to local support services. It’s a powerful tool.
Everyone takes their own unique path through the story, letting them choose the topics that match their own interests. The average user spends 15 minutes learning at their own pace.
Other human trafficking prevention advocates have found it helpful to print out this simple info sheet for their Parent Teacher Organizations, decision makers at their groups, and their Boards of Directors.
Uprising’s Terri Markham uses TRAPPED: A VR Detective Story to train everyone from children to legislators using an interactive virtual reality experience.
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.
TRAPPED: A VR Detective Story 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 predator online who recognized her vulnerabilities and gave her the attention and “love” she was not receiving from her family and friends.
Most people do not understand that traffickers do this to "earn" a living. They spend all their time manipulating people and they are exceptionally good at it.
This situation is all too real, and anyone can fall for it because these traffickers (and abusers) take advantage of what makes us human.
Houston Police Human Trafficking Unit Lieutenant Angela M. Merritt provides training to the Houston police and shares her assessment of the power of the virtual reality training tool, TRAPPED.
Lisa’s story uses the immersion from cutting-edge, interactive virtual reality (VR) to help everyone understand how the “invisible chains” of psychological manipulation can bind anyone, anywhere.
- Turnkey solution, ready to train anyone right out of the box
- VR story augments any training material you currently use
- VR headsets protect trainees from distraction while they actively learn
- Lisa’s story creates a strong connection to victims of this crime
- Interactive learning dramatically improves knowledge retention
- Peer-to-peer involvement increases interest in the material
- Expert-informed learning objectives are woven into the story and situations
- Provides an accurate understanding of the issues without sensationalized material
- Delivers personalized, consistent, training anytime, anywhere
We have licensees all across America, in California (VIDA Vista Interactive Design Academy), Texas (McCallum High School in Austin), Illinois (College of DuPage), Wyoming (Uprising), Washington (The Puyallup Tribe of Indians), Montana (The LifeGuard Group), Florida, Arkansas (Into the Light), Idaho (INsideOUT), and Alabama (Family Services of North Alabama). And we are growing quickly.
Wichita Falls Mayor, Stephen Santellana, explains his experience learning about human trafficking through the interactive Virtual Reality (VR) training tool, TRAPPED: A VR Detective Story.
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