Opal Singleton Hendershot is the President and CEO of Million Kids, a 501(c)3 organization dedicated to keeping kids safe from predators
Million Kids serves as the Advisor to the Training and Outreach Coordinator for the Riverside County Anti Human Trafficking Task Force (RCAHT) and works with the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department. Opal has completed tens of thousands of hours of research over the past fifteen years on those subjects and dealt with real cases making her an expert on human trafficking crimes and online exploitation of minors.
With her expertise, Opal has educated and trained more than 750,000 government and individual leaders as the keynote speaker and workshop presenter on labor trafficking, adult and child sex trafficking, foreign national trafficking, gang trafficking, advanced technologies used in sex crimes, sextortion and social media exploitation, global financial sextortion, crypto currency and money laundering, the Dark Net and bulletproof hosting, and CSAM (child sexual abuse materials). She often appears on television and radio talk shows across the United States.
Opal is the author of two books. Seduced: The Grooming of America’s Teenagers examines real cases to illustrate how predators use social media and online gaming to access, groom, recruit and exploit teenagers into sex trafficking, sextortion and exploitation. The second book, Societal Shift: A World Without Borders… A Home Without Walls , takes a look at the impact of over six billion people coming together through 5G High Speed Internet creating a momentous societal shift. The book explores the technology transformation that changes crime and crime solving including artificial intelligence, mass audience live streaming, global digital currency, geo location software, and encryption,
Opal is an Instructor at USC Price Safe Communities Institute and is an instructor at Los Angeles Fire Leadership Training Academy. Opal has completed the Robert Presley Institute of Criminal Investigation Instructor Course and served on the Peace Officers Standardized Training panel to develop the training curriculum on human trafficking for law enforcement in California.
Opal is the Executive Producer of a global documentary “Sextortion: The Hidden Pandemic” which premiered at the Pentagon and is available for download on Amazon, Apple TV and iTunes. The film has been edited for school classrooms and is being distributed across the U.S. through the Netsmartz program.
Opal hosts a weekly podcast titled “Protect and Prevent” P3Kids to educate the public about the latest trends in human trafficking , CSAM and online exploitation.
Simply stated: Opal cares deeply about the safety of young people and their families.
For more information: https://millionkids.org https://insideralerts.org https://Instagram.com/_millionkids_ https://Facebook.com/iemillionkids https://www.youtube.com/c/MillionKids/videos
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