Exploitation doesn't happen in a vacuum, nor does it only target people- businesses, industries, and communities are also victims. Cultural and relational vulnerabilities may lead to exploitation, including abuse, homelessness, poverty, and mental health challenges. Industries like agriculture, beauty, construction, domestic work, energy, and hospitality, are susceptible. Communities experiencing natural disasters such as hurricanes and wildfires can experience rapidly increased vulnerabilities. To combat exploitation, we must remain at the forefront of the issue and be relentless in our innovation- reaching further into the community than exploiters. Our response must be multi-faceted, contextualized, engaging, adaptable, and scalable. Partnerships with local governments, first responders, medical facilities, businesses, schools, and other youth-serving spaces are vital. We must collectively outnumber and outsmart the exploiters to collaboratively disrupt and dismantle the system of exploitation. The solution is to stop exploitation before it starts.
Intersect Summits allow local and state agencies, first responders, law enforcement, nonprofits, businesses, elected officials, leaders, and concerned citizens to create single or multi-day events, utilizing iEmpathize documentaries, the compelling Apathy Effect Exhibit, the innovative Empower Youth Program, and sector-based adult educational tools to train facilitators and stakeholders. Empowering industries, organizations, sectors, and communities to empathetically recognize and respond to exploitation, step out of silos, develop community response plans, brainstorm policy changes, and seek paradigm-shifting solutions.
If you are interested in hosting a summit in your community, consider one or more of these options:
