Empowering & equipping children and adults to recognize and resist online harms such as sexual exploitation, human trafficking, and pornography.
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Testimonials
★★★★★
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Excellent!
Naomi has a unique ability to address extremely challenging issues whilst leaving her audience feeling positive and inspired. I highly recommend engaging Naomi Holland as your next speaker. You will be glad you did!
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Ross Weaver,
President PrimeQuest Resources Inc.
Meaningful
Naomi’s passion for the topic while sharing her work with individuals escaping human trafficking meaningfully challenged our students to think more wisely about the choices they make on a daily basis while online.
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Mrs. C., Grade 9 Teacher
Research Based
Overworked teachers nervous to speak about this topic in classrooms will welcome Naomi’s research based, brain and behaviour informed presentations on the influence that pornography does have on emerging minds.
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Bernie Potvin,
Adjunct Professor, Adult Learning Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary
Inspiring!
I appreciate how Mrs. Holland inspired us to go help end human trafficking instead of making us feel depressed about the world around us. Mrs. Holland made us realize that we could do something now to help end it!
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Janelle, Grade 9 Student
Hard Facts Facing Today’s Youth
$97 Billion
Annual revenue generated by the porn industry. More than Google, Amazon, Netflix, Yahoo, eBay, Microsoft & Apple!
8 -11 Years
Average age children first stumble onto violent hardcore porn (this is mainstream porn).
193 Million Visitors
Daily visitors to one of the most popular porn websites.
Culture of Violence
What children can access nowadays with 2 clicks cannot be described as sex. It is torture.
Dr. Gail Dines, Culture Refamed
Today’s Sex Ed
44% of males 11 – 16 years said porn gave them ideas of what they wanted to try. FTND
% of 5,000 college girls surveyed were strangled in their last sexual encounter.
Fuels Sex Trafficking
When consuming porn, there is absolutely no way to tell if the person on the other side of the screen is NOT a victim of human trafficking, force, and/or coercion. We do know that 88% of porn performers were sexually abused as children. FTND
Social Media
Designed to be Addictive
Social media platforms use algorithms to keep users coming back as often as possible for as long as possible. You could say they are designed to be addictive. Tech companies have no incentive to change this; it’s essential to their business model.
Dr. Jean Twenge
Mental Health
Gen Z is on the brink of the worst mental health crisis we have ever seen!
The links between feelings of loneliness, depression, anxiety, and screen time are shockingly evident. Depression, suicide, anxiety, and sleep deprivation have been off the charts ever since the smartphone was introduced.
Lisa Jason Frost, The Glass Between Us
Gaming Addiction
Makes Kids Vulnerable to Porn Addiction
Once many children reach puberty, the neural networks established for video-game addiction leave them vulnerable to addiction to pornography. The neurological grooves created for VG get filled by the next addictive process.
Jay Stringer, Unwanted
Loneliness
People or Pixels?
This rising generation is in a battle between relationships with people or pixels. The winner of this fight will dictate the course of their lives and the fruit of their success in the seasons to come.
Lisa Jason Frost, The Glass Between Us
Suicide
Rate
At an all-time high.
Rose 56% between 2007-2017 among youth 10 – 24. For girls 10 – 14, it tripled between 1999-2014. (Glass Between Us)
10% of high school kids have attempted suicide.
Nick Rotola, Scroll Happy
Smart-phones
Are Experience Blockers
You spend a lot less time in the presence of other people. You’re not with your friends. You’re sleeping less, in nature less, reading less, and you don’t have time for anything else. You have less of everything.
The Anxious Generation
PARENTS! WE ARE NOT HELPLESS BYSTANDERS!
The ball is in our court. Now that we have the data, it is our time to act and act fast! According to Dr. Jonathan Haidt, we can turn this around in TWO YEARS, but we must work collectively.
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