Clear your calendar - It's going down! Splash Blocks kicks off on April 21st, and you're invited to take part in the festivities. Splash HQ (122 W 26th St) is our meeting spot for a night of fun and excitement. Come one, come all, bring a guest, and hang loose. This is going to be epic!
HackECPAT is put on by ECPAT-USA, the leading anti-trafficking policy organization in the United States. We have our Empowering Youth to Take the Lead Toolkit, which is a tool to be used by students to educate themselves and their peers about the sex trafficking of children in the U.S. The purpose of the hackathon is to
put a modern spin on our Toolkit to fit today’s technological world.
Once you register for the hackathon, we will send you an email with pretty important information in it. We'll tell you all the deets and we'll also send you a PDF version of our "Empowering Youth to Take the Lead against Trafficking" Toolkit, which is something you should browse and get familiar with before the weekend of the hackathon.Â
HackECPAT kicks off on July 18th, and you're invited! Join us for 2 days of  fun, excitement, & social change. High School students will have the chance to use their creative, tech, & leadership skills to help end child trafficking.
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Participants are being asked to put a modern spin on our Youth Empowerment toolkit to fit today’s technological world. The toolkit is used by NYC students to educate themselves and their peers about the sex trafficking of children in the U.S.
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In its current form, the Youth Toolkit is a PDF document and needs to be brought into the digital world. We're challenging YOU to come up with the most creative & interactive way to revamp it (i.e. via an app) and the winning team will have their idea materialized.
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Come one! Come all! Let's create change together!!Â
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Location:Â NYU Courant Institute (251 Mercer St. btwn W. 3rd & W. 4th)
Dates:Â Saturday July 18th & Sunday July 19th
Time: 9:30a.m.*-6:00p.m.
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*Mentors & volunteers arrive at 9a.m.
Join us to take One Click to Prevention.
 Eric Schles is deeply interested in solving the problem of slavery. Eric holds undergraduate degrees in Mathematics and Economics, a graduate degree in International Economics and a Masters of Science in Computer Science with a focus in Cyber security. Professionally he has been a founding member of four early-stage start ups in the areas of environmental engineering, digital health care and health care user experience, web development consulting, and data driven marketing.
HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST, CEO & FOUNDER, I’LL GO FIRST
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Jessica Minhas has established herself as a social justice and media expert who makes complex human rights issues relevant, understandable and actionable for audiences of all ages. For well over 12 years, Jessica has worked in the media and anti-trafficking space both abroad and domestically helping to craft economic empowerment programs and investigations on behalf of sex trafficking victims. She is a Global Shaper for the World Economic Forum, an United Nations Global Accelerator and was recently honored as a New York New Abolitionist.
Every year across the globe, children are bought, sold, and used for sex.
At any given moment, an estimated 300,000 children, some as young as 11 years old, are at-risk of being commercially sexually exploited in the United States.
Watch our 2 minute video here.
To curb this epidemic, ECPAT-USA developed a toolkit to empower youth to take action against trafficking. Our "Empowering Youth to Take the Lead" Toolkit guides youth to educate themselves &Â their peers on the facts, misconceptions, warning signs, and risks of trafficking. 5Â schools in the NYC area have implemented the Toolkit, and several students have directly self identified as victims of trafficking after using the Toolkit.
This toolkit needs a modern spin from paper form and in-person presentations to fit today’s technological world.
This is where you come in.
How can we use technology to get youth involved in the fight against trafficking?
How can we reach youth in hard-to-reach areas and get them involved in the fight?
You are the movers, the creators, the doers.
We need your voice!
