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We cannot protect against what we are not aware of.
Did you know that between 2018 and 2022 the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) saw a 567% increase in reports relating to sexual enticement of a child?
Not on Our Watch Texas (NOWTX) is rallying all women in business to raise awareness of online abuse, exploitation, and sextortion to help protect children and youth. It will take all of us to educate our families, schools, churches, and other communities on how to defend our children from online predators.
Most parents think they can keep their children safe from predators who are “out there.” But most parents don’t realize these abusers are not “out there,” increasingly, they are inside our children’s bedrooms, via smartphones, computers, & gaming devices. The smartphone is the new white van.
This project is an initiative of:
Texas Women in Business
The NOWTX Vision:
A Texas where children are free from abuse and exploitation.
The NOWTX Mission:
Our mission is to secure a brighter future for Texas by providing education, resources, and support to prevent child sexual abuse and exploitation.
For more information:
lb@notonourwatchtx.com
Live Event Panel / Speakers
Opening Remarks
Crystal Mancilla - Mayor of Liberty Hill
Special Guest:
Paula Bookidis – Special Announcement CEO, Girl Scouts of Central Texas
Our Expert Panel Includes:
Jennifer Newman – Executive Director, Texas National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
Sergeant Gary Marquis – Office of the Texas Attorney General Criminal Investigations Division/ Child Exploitation
Grant Sparks – Assistant U.S. Attorney, Western District of Texas, United States Department of Justice
Kaysha Herd, MA LPC – Clinical Supervisor, Williamson County Children’s Advocacy Center
PAST EVENT – Austin Live Stream
September 7, 2023
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Not on Our Watch Texas was founded by LisaBeth Thomas and Andrea Sparks and is an initiative of Texas Women in Business and supported by the Governor’s Commission for Women.
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Please visit our partners:
National Center for Missing & Exploited Children
As the nation’s nonprofit clearinghouse and comprehensive reporting center for all issues related to the prevention of and recovery from child victimization, NCMEC leads the fight against abduction, abuse, and exploitation – because every child deserves a safe childhood. Hope is why we’re here.
https://missingkids.org/
Sextortion
NCMEC’s CyberTipline receives reports regarding suspected child sexual exploitation, including “sextortion,” a new online exploitation crime directed towards children in which non-physical forms of coercion are used, such as blackmail, to acquire sexual content from the child, engage in sex with the child, or obtain money from the child.
https://www.missingkids.org/sextortion
CyberTipline
NCMEC’s CyberTipline is the nation’s centralized reporting system for the online exploitation of children. The public and electronic service providers can make reports of suspected online enticement of children for sexual acts, extra-familial child sexual molestation, child pornography, child sex tourism, child sex trafficking, unsolicited obscene materials sent to a child, misleading domain names, and misleading words or digital images on the internet.
https://www.missingkids.org/gethelpnow/cybertipline
Take It Down
This service is one step you can take to help remove online nude, partially nude, or sexually explicit photos and videos taken before you were 18.
https://takeitdown.ncmec.org