Get In The Fight

MICHIGAN TRAINING PROGRAMS

Help End Child Exploitation And Trafficking
December 8, 2023

5:00 PM – Speakers Meet & Greet

Meet our featured speakers and other leaders In the fight against the war on children.

6:30 PM to 8:30 PM – Summit Panel Discussion
December 9, 2023
9:00 AM to 4:00 PM – Training Programs
Choose below from multiple training programs for individuals, parents, first responders, business owners, healthcare and hospitality professionals, and survivors.

Summit and training programs will be held at the Grace Christian Church, 33801 Van Dyke Ave, Sterling Heights, MI 48312.

Lara Logan

Lara Logan

General Mike Flynn

SUMMIT PANEL SPEAKERS

Tara Lee Rodas

Jaeson Jones

Jaeson Jones

Liz Crokin

Liz Crokin

Christine Dolan

Christine Dolan

Bazzel Baz

Bazzel Baz

DECEMBER 9, 2023 – SCHEDULE AND REGISTRATION

Training programs are $20 each, except for the ARC six-day program.

Grace Christian Church, 33801 Van Dyke Ave, Sterling Heights, MI 48312

Get The Facts. Know The Truth. Learn What You Can Do In Your Community.

9:00 AM – 11:00 AM

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

 Nick Lembo

Demand Reduction: Practical Ways to Get Involved to Stop Trafficking
Youth Auditorium
This training seminar provides an overview of how our culture shapes the mindset of those who buy sex in the US by normalizing harmful beliefs. Attendees will understand what influences a buyer of sex, and how to prevent it. Attendees will learn ways to protect children from becoming predators or becoming the prey in the world of commercial sexual exploitation. Learn practical applications that create a safer community by use of cyber patrols, and how the average man can directly become involved to stop the online sale of others for sex.
Instructor: Nick Lembo, Subject Matter Expert/Trainer on the Impact of Pornography on Sex Buying

Since 2012, Nick Lembo has been involved in standing against Human Trafficking with various organizations. He is a Board Member of the Genesis Project as well as an Emeritus Board Member of Shared Hope International. Nick is presently a Program Director for the Arizona Anti Trafficking Network overseeing the Just Men Arizona program. Nick is the co-founder of Hope for the Generations, whose vision is to inform and equip communities across the nation to educate, disrupt, and ransom our culture from the evils of sexual exploitation and trafficking.

Jo Lembo

Nancy Wilson

Nancy Winston

First Responders Training Program
Children’s Auditorium
Targeted training on the dynamics of sex trafficking in America. To properly and successfully identify and respond to a situation, first responders must familiarize themselves with characteristics specific to the crime and victimization experienced by survivors. While every survivor’s experience is unique, certain reoccurring dynamics and victimization patterns have been observed and documented.
Instructors: Jo Lembo, National Child Sexual Exploitation Trainer and Nancy Winston, Shared Hope Senior Advisor, Emeritus Board
Jo Lembo
Since 2009, through her work with Shared Hope International, Jo Lembo has nationally trained volunteers and community members on how to impact the issues that endanger children, and how to address the hidden reality of juvenile sex trafficking. Her emphasis is no matter how small the action, everyone can have a role in protecting children from exploitation. Jo is the co-founder of Hope for the Generations, whose vision is to inform and equip communities across the nation to educate, disrupt, and ransom our culture from the evils of sexual exploitation and trafficking.
 
Nancy Winston
Nancy Winston is a Senior Director and member of Shared Hope International’s Emeritus Board. She received her Master’s in Social Work from the University of Maryland in 2014. She has been active in the movement against sex trafficking since 2002. Nancy’s experience includes speaking, writing, training, restorative shelter initiatives, and survivor support. While living in the Washington, D.C. area, she was a member of the Maryland Human Trafficking Task Force Victim Services Committee and served as chair of the task force’s Legislative Committee in 2012 and 2013.

11:30 AM – 1:30 PM

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

Jo Lembo

Inhospitable to Human Trafficking Program
Children’s Auditorium
This seminar provides proven tools and strategies to proactively prevent child exploitation and trafficking from occurring in hotels and motels while helping staff identify the signs of a crime and thereby improving the safety of the environments for guests and employees, alike. Participants will learn how to identify a victim and the steps to take to connect them with services. Hotel managers, owners, and frontline employees are encouraged to attend this program to reduce the serious safety risks caused by human trafficking.
Instructor: Jo Lembo, National Child Sexual Exploitation Trainer

Since 2009, through her work with Shared Hope International, Jo Lembo has nationally trained volunteers and community members on how to impact the issues that endanger children, and how to address the hidden reality of juvenile sex trafficking. Her emphasis is no matter how small the action, everyone can have a role in protecting children from exploitation. Jo is the co-founder of Hope for the Generations, whose vision is to inform and equip communities across the nation to educate, disrupt, and ransom our culture from the evils of sexual exploitation and trafficking.

Lynz Piper-Loomis

Lynz Piper-Loomis

Overcomer Seminar – Training With Purpose
Youth Auditorium
This seminar is designed for individuals who have felt the horrific pain and suffering of child abuse and exploitation and who want to leave brokenness behind, take back their lives, and step into the light as an overcomer. The faith-based program will provide survivors of abuse with motivational and strategic tools and steps to reach inward to rediscover their core identity and take action as an overcomer. Caring adults interested in combatting trafficking and helping survivors will learn to understand a traumatized mindset, how to navigate the healing stages of the overcomer, the role of destiny in one’s life journey, and the value of standing in the gap as the testimonies of victims continue to rise. It is time for the victims and survivors to be treated with honor, integrity, and credibility. It is time for the public to stop victimizing the offender and to support the survivors. Participants will learn how they can add value in this area and help be a voice for the voiceless.
Instructor: Lynz Piper-Loomis, Overcomer and Author
Lynz Piper-Loomis is an overcomer, whose book, “I Am Silent No More,” recounts the horrific story of her journey in life when at the age of 13, following the death of her mother in a car accident, she was trafficked through child protective services, sexually assaulted and enslaved for over three years until the age of 16 and one-half years old. At the age of 25, she made a decision about the burden, pain, and agony she had endured in her life, realizing she could move forward to the plan God had for her life. Today, she is a prominent speaker on the tragedy of child trafficking, how survivors can leave brokenness behind, take back their lives, and step into the light as an overcomer, and helping others understand a survivor’s traumatized mindset, how to navigate the healing stages of the overcomer, and the role of destiny in one’s life journey. Lynz is a member of America’s Future Project Defend & Protect Our Children Advisory Board.
1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Into the Light Movie & Artificial Intelligence Discussion
Main Auditorium
Liz Crokin

Liz Crokin

Code words and symbols are used by pedophiles to buy and sell children. You’ll hear about the dark network of “pizzagate pedophiles” in Hollywood, the media, and on Capitol Hill and how the FBI has confirmed the use of code words like “pizza” to buy and sell children. Attendees will learn what to be on the lookout for to recognize child sex predators’ code words and symbols from investigative journalist Liz Crokin, who first exposed pizzagate, when she answers questions and joins the discussion with Mike Smith, Brian Gamble, and Boone Cutler.

Liz Crokin is an award-winning author, an independent investigative journalist and a documentary film producer best known for her relentless work exposing sex trafficking.

Liz executive produced Slave Princess released in the fall of 2021. The documentary film covered Britney Spears’s illicit conservatorship and the systematic corruption surrounding it involving the media, Hollywood, and the government. In the spring of 2020, Liz appeared in the viral documentary Out Of Shadows which has been viewed by over 100 million people globally and translated into over two-dozen languages.

In 2016, Liz broke several exclusive viral stories for the New York Observer on the presidential election and corruption in media and big tech. Her stories received millions of impressions, and some were featured on the front page of the Drudge Report. Liz published a political-romantic thriller, Malice, which received an award at the Hollywood Book Festival in 2015.

Liz has worked for various major media companies over the course of two decades. She started as a wire reporter covering hard news at the City News bureau at the Chicago Tribune. She ran a weekly gossip column in the RedEye Edition of the Chicago Tribune for seven years. She also had a regular column in the Chicago Sun-Times: Splash & Townhall.

She’s worked as a senior reporter for Us Weekly and also as an editor for both In Touch Weekly and Star magazines. Her work has also been featured at Daily Caller, Elite Daily, and Marie Claire. In her early years, she interned for the State Department’s White House correspondent in the White House and trained with Bill O’Reilly during a summer internship at Fox News. Liz graduated from the University of Iowa in 2001 with a degree in journalism and political science.

Mike Smith
Mike Smith
Brian Gamble
Boone Culter
Boone Cutler
Artificial intelligence, or “AI,” has thrust society into unknown territory, influencing human behaviors and interactions, to creating life-like digital forms that look and speak as if they were alive. Attendees will learn about the dangers of AI’s infiltration into everyday life, particularly vulnerable children and their use of social media, and the rapid advancement of harmful digital apps with emphasis on how traffickers and predators use AI to control minds and manipulate reality to get what they want. Parents, business owners, and professionals are encouraged to attend this seminar to get a chance to learn the extent to which bad actors blend AI tools with the techniques of psychological operations to control minds and human behavior with a showing of the movie, Into The Light.
Instructors: Mike Smith, Into The Light director-producer, Brian Gamble, Data Sciences Professional, and Boone Cutler, Co-Author of “The Citizen’s Guide to Fifth Generation: Session 2, How to Fight Artificial Intelligence”


Mike Smith

Mike Smith is the creator, producer, and director of the recent blockbuster, Into The Light, and the viral film sensation Out of Shadows, viewed by over 100 million people worldwide that exposed the Deep State’s infiltration in Hollywood and corporate media and the prevalence of elite pedophile rings and child trafficking. His films have triggered a mass awakening and activism for countless individuals around the globe. He started his career doing action stunts as a double for some of Hollywood’s biggest movie stars like Mel Gibson and Christian Bale and has performed in hundreds of feature films and television productions playing roles such as James Bond, Batman, and countless other iconic movie heroes. He later transitioned to action director, becoming one of Hollywood’s most sought-after action directors. He is dedicated to revolutionizing and restructuring the media for the Judeo-Christian fundamentals that this nation was founded upon. Mike is a is an America’s Future Board Director.

Brian Gamble
Brian Gamble is a veteran data science professional and tech visionary, with more than 30 years of experience. His career spans Fortune 500 executive leadership, U.S. Navy data analyst, and a life-long mission to counter online censorship. In 2019, Brian founded a free-speech organization, later transitioning away from corporate roles to raising awareness and defending the American public from evolving technological threats. Brian is an America’s Future Project Defend & Protect Our Children Advisory Board.

Boone Cutler
Boone Cutler is a combat veteran and leading advocate for the warfighter community, the founder of the National Warfighter Symposium, a music video producer and radio personality-host of the “Tipping Point with Boone Cutler – The Warfighter Perspective,” an author of multiple books, and co-author with General Mike Flynn of “The Citizens Guide To Fifth Generation Warfare,” a comprehensive series of military-like manuals for civilians to understand modern warfare dynamics and how to combat the influence and use of AI as a manipulative control mechanism to shape human behavior.

2:00 PM – 4:00 PM

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

Jo Lembo

Parents and Caring Adults Program
Children’s Auditorium
Parents and caring adults are a child’s first line of defense against exploitation and trafficking. This program is recommended for parents and caring adults of youth ages 9 through 19. You will learn what grooming is, the traits of groomers, what personality behaviors in your children to watch for if you suspect your child is being groomed, and how to raise a responsible digital citizen.
Instructor: Jo Lembo, National Child Sexual Exploitation Trainer

Since 2009, through her work with Shared Hope International, Jo Lembo has nationally trained volunteers and community members on how to impact the issues that endanger children, and how to address the hidden reality of juvenile sex trafficking. Her emphasis is no matter how small the action, everyone can have a role in protecting children from exploitation. Jo is the co-founder of Hope for the Generations, whose vision is to inform and equip communities across the nation to educate, disrupt, and ransom our culture from the evils of sexual exploitation and trafficking.

Nancy Wilson
Nancy Winston
An Unexpected Health Crisis: Human Trafficking & Health Care
Youth Auditorium
Physicians, nurses, social workers, and other healthcare employees are encouraged to attend this seminar to gain an understanding of the extent of Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking in the U.S. and the vulnerabilities in a child’s life exposed to early trauma. An overview of the commerce and control of pimp trafficking helps healthcare providers improve their ability to recognize the signs of a trafficked victim or identify those who are at risk of victimization. Attendees will learn how a victim presents in the clinical setting and receive the tools and techniques to deliver an effective response.
Instructors: Nancy Winston, Shared Hope Senior Advisor, Emeritus Board
Nancy Winston is a Senior Director and member of Shared Hope International’s Emeritus Board. She received her Master’s in Social Work from the University of Maryland in 2014. She has been active in the movement against sex trafficking since 2002. Nancy’s experience includes speaking, writing, training, restorative shelter initiatives, and survivor support. While living in the Washington, D.C. area, she was a member of the Maryland Human Trafficking Task Force Victim Services Committee and served as chair of the task force’s Legislative Committee in 2012 and 2013.
Fight Child Sex Trafficking Comprehensive Equipping Course Association for the Recovery of Children (ARC)

March 11-16, 2024

Bazzel Baz
Bazzel Baz
Tina Baz
Tina Baz
This six-day comprehensive program will equip attendees with the knowledge and skills to combat sex trafficking effectively in the areas of prevention, intervention, rescue, advocacy, or direct services to victims/survivors.
Instructors: Bazzel Baz, ARC Founder and President and Tina Baz, ARC Human Trafficking Program Director


Bazzel Baz

Bazzel Baz is the founder and president of the Association for the Recovery of Children (ARC), an organization established in 1993 dedicated to the recovery of missing and exploited American children in foreign and domestic locations. Known as “the Patron Saint for Missing Kids,” he is a former CIA Intelligence Special Operations Group Paramilitary Case Officer, recipient of the Intelligence Commendation Medal, former counter-terrorism officer in the United States Marine Corps, and a graduate of The Citadel.

He is well-known globally for his expertise and extraordinary skillset. He is the author of Terrorism Survival Handbook and has been called on by news networks as an advisor and spokesperson on the war on terrorism and homeland security. He is also a film and television writer, producer, and actor, co-starring in NBC’s “The Blacklist” as the commander of Raymond Reddington’s paramilitary group for four seasons.

As a Life Coach, Baz travels nationally and internationally to provide breakthroughs to awesome performance with an uncanny ability to bring simple solutions to complicated scenarios. He is a well-sought-after motivational speaker and “life guarantor” for people entering high-threat environments. Baz is a member of America’s Future Project Defend & Protect Our Children Advisory Board.

Tina Baz

Tina Baz is Human Trafficking Program Director and Legislative Liaison for ARC – The Association for the Recovery of Children. For the past decade, she has been professionally engaged in combating sex trafficking in the U.S., specializing in child sex trafficking prevention, locating victims, assisting victims of gang/organized crime trafficking, victim advocacy, and victim services.

Having worked extensively with victims who are being actively sex trafficked, those who want to get out, and those in recovery, she possesses a wealth of street-level insight into the vulnerabilities, traumas, and needs of victims, as well as the inner workings of the commercial sex trade, gang trafficking, and the human trafficking criminal enterprise. Tina has spearheaded collaborative emergency response programs that provide rescue, triage evaluation, care, and connection to residential placement and services for sex trafficking victims.

Tina participates in several anti-human trafficking task forces and collaborations. By building relationships with elected officials, District Attorneys’ offices, and state and federal legislators, she is able to provide accurate, critical knowledge that influences human trafficking policies, laws, and new legislation. She is a graduate of California State University, Fullerton, and a member of America’s Future Project Defend & Protect Our Children Advisory Board.

Lara Logan

Lara Logan, Investigative Journalist

Lara Logan is an award-winning investigative journalist. She is known internationally for her fearless and candid reporting from some of the most dangerous places in the world in her role at “60 Minutes” and for her investigative series “Lara Logan Has No Agenda.” With decades of honest reporting and speaking up for the truth regardless of the politics, Lara is a powerful voice for freedom and liberty around the world. She has covered some of the most controversial topics of our time, such as media bias, Mexican drug cartels, trafficking, and the dangers of Big Tech. Her newly launched broadcast series, “The Rest of the Story with Lara Logan,” reports on the January 6th political persecution of Americans caught in a web of lies and deceit by a weaponized justice department.

Lara is an America’s Future Board Director, and a member of its Project Defend & Protect Our Children Advisory Board.

General Mike Flynn
General Mike Flynn
Board Chair, America’s Future

Lt. General Michael T. Flynn, USA (Ret.) dedicated his life in service to the nation with the U.S. Army for more than 33 years. His distinguished military career culminated as the Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency and as the nation’s highest-serving military intelligence officer.

Upon his retirement in 2014, General Flynn continued serving the public in leadership positions with various business, veteran, and civic organizations. In 2017, he was appointed as the country’s 25th National Security Advisor to the 45th President of the United States, Donald J. Trump.

As an expert in Diplomacy, Statecraft, Foreign Policy, Strategy Formulation, Defense, Intelligence, and other areas of national and international security, General Flynn is a prominent commentator and sought-after speaker on military and global affairs.

He is a national bestselling author of The Field of Fight: How We Can Win the Global War Against Radical Islam and its Allies. He is also the author of A Letter To America: The Time To Fight For Your Faith And Family Is Now and co-author of The Citizen’s Guide To Fifth Generation Warfare. His numerous articles, essays, and papers have been published worldwide.

General Flynn has earned three master’s degrees and is the recipient of numerous civilian, military, intelligence, and law enforcement awards.

He is married with two sons and has several grandchildren.

Tara Lee Rodas, HHS Whistleblower

Tara Lee Rodas is the HHS whistleblower who exposed government-sponsored, taxpayer-funded child trafficking when she testified at the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement hearing on April 26, 2023, and said, “Whether intentional or not, it can be argued that the U.S. Government has become the middleman in a large scale, multi-billion-dollar, child trafficking operation run by bad actors seeking to profit off the lives of children.” Her revealing testimony resulted from her first-hand knowledge about the HHS placement of migrant children entering the U.S. via the southern border with sponsors, some of whom were criminals and traffickers and members of Transnational Criminal Organizations.

Tara is a member of America’s Future Project Defend & Protect Our Children Advisory Board.

Jaeson Jones

Jaeson Jones, CEO, Omni Intelligence

Jaeson Jones is the Director/CEO of Omni Intelligence, a private company that strives to make the public and government agencies aware of the threats posed by unsecured borders and best practices to combat transnational crime. He is a nationally recognized authority on the Mexican Cartels, and lectures across the U.S.

Jaeson is a retired Captain from the Texas Department of Public Safety’s Intelligence and Counterterrorism Division. He managed the daily operations for the Texas Rangers, Border Security Operations Center. He supervised Human Intelligence (HUMINT) operations in several nations and managed intelligence lead operations for the longest 24/7 border operation in Texas history, Operation Secure Texas. He liaised daily with law enforcement and members of the intelligence community to collaborate with all disciplines of the homeland security enterprise.

Jaeson was responsible for providing timely information and analysis necessary to prevent and protect against all threats. This included providing analysis and intelligence to the Texas Rangers, Criminal Investigations Division, Texas Highway Patrol, Aircraft Section, and state Emergency Management Division. Given his knowledge of Mexican Cartel operations and threats involving border security, he frequently speaks to executives within all disciplines of homeland security throughout the nation. His focus is on best practices for combating transnational threats and the spread of violent criminal networks.

He served as the Critical Incident Commander in the State Intelligence Center during the Fort Hood shootings, Austin IRS Echelon building attack, University of Texas active shooter incident, Odessa shooting involving four officers shot with over 1,200 rounds fired, Ranger Recon Mexican Cartel shooting, Murder of a Bexar County Sergeant, and the Bastrop County wildfire disaster.

Liz Crokin
Liz Crokin

Liz Crokin is an award-winning author, an independent investigative journalist and a documentary film producer best known for her relentless work exposing sex trafficking.

Liz executive produced Slave Princess released in the fall of 2021. The documentary film covered Britney Spears’s illicit conservatorship and the systematic corruption surrounding it involving the media, Hollywood, and the government. In the spring of 2020, Liz appeared in the viral documentary Out Of Shadows which has been viewed by over 100 million people globally and translated into over two-dozen languages.

In 2016, Liz broke several exclusive viral stories for the New York Observer on the presidential election and corruption in media and big tech. Her stories received millions of impressions, and some were featured on the front page of the Drudge Report. Liz published a political-romantic thriller, Malice, which received an award at the Hollywood Book Festival in 2015.

Liz has worked for various major media companies over the course of two decades. She started as a wire reporter covering hard news at the City News bureau at the Chicago Tribune. She ran a weekly gossip column in the RedEye Edition of the Chicago Tribune for seven years. She also had a regular column in the Chicago Sun-Times: Splash & Townhall.

She’s worked as a senior reporter for Us Weekly and also as an editor for both In Touch Weekly and Star magazines. Her work has also been featured at Daily Caller, Elite Daily, and Marie Claire. In her early years, she interned for the State Department’s White House correspondent in the White House and trained with Bill O’Reilly during a summer internship at Fox News. Liz graduated from the University of Iowa in 2001 with a degree in journalism and political science.

Christine Dolan

Christine Dolan, Investigative Journalist and Author

Christine Dolan is a broadcast and print investigative journalist and author, and is recognized as one of the most seasoned investigators of human trafficking in the world. Her career has focused on U.S. and international politics and policy, wars/conflicts, humanitarian disasters, and terrorist and criminal networks. Since 2000, she has focused on human trafficking and terrorism worldwide on the street, and over the internet, as well as international politics and policy. She has investigated human trafficking in 140 countries, from sex to labor to pedo-criminality, organ and medical trafficking, sex tourism and ritual abuse torture, and the institutions that perpetuate trafficking. She is currently the Senior Editor and Chief Investigative Journalist of CD Media, where she hosts American Conversations, which she co-founded, and Global Conversations – In Plain Sight. Her book, “Shattered Innocence – A Shared Global Shame,” will be released in April 2024.

Baz Bazzel

Bazzel Baz, ARC Founder and President

Bazzel Baz is the founder and president of the Association for the Recovery of Children (ARC), an organization established in 1993 dedicated to the recovery of missing and exploited American children in foreign and domestic locations. Known as “the Patron Saint for Missing Kids,” he is a former CIA Intelligence Special Operations Group Paramilitary Case Officer, recipient of the Intelligence Commendation Medal, former counter-terrorism officer in the United States Marine Corps, and a graduate of The Citadel. He is well-known globally for his expertise and extraordinary skillset. He is the author of Terrorism Survival Handbook and has been called on by news networks as an advisor and spokesperson on the war on terrorism and homeland security. He is also a film and television writer, producer, and actor, co-starring in NBC’s “The Blacklist” as the commander of Raymond Reddington’s paramilitary group for four seasons. As a Life Coach, Baz travels nationally and internationally to provide breakthroughs to awesome performance with an uncanny ability to bring simple solutions to complicated scenarios. He is a well-sought-after motivational speaker and “life guarantor” for people entering high-threat environments.

Baz is a member of America’s Future Project Defend & Protect Our Children Advisory Board.