Elizabeth Phillips

And now in Dallas, it was like 50.

And so we're trying to grow interest in the private funding because, you know, as we were saying, everyone will tell you they care about this issue, but we vote with our dollars, right?

You know someone's priorities by where they're spending their time, money, time, treasure, talent, and there's just not a lot of money flowing into this issue.

Anti-trafficking, yes, more so.

Child sexual abuse prevention, not so much.

Reacting to child sexual abuse, you know, children advocacy centers get a lot of funding, even from the state.

I think the state of Texas gets something like 80 million in appropriations to their children advocacy centers from the state.

Prevention, however,

That number I mentioned, 150 million.

So we need to take this issue from millions to billions, not that money alone can solve it, but it can fund these promising innovations so that we make a dent in this issue.

But it also requires a culture shift where parents are asking the right questions of their kid's school, of wherever they're playing sports,

I have a PI on retainer and not everyone can do that.

But before my kids are coached by anyone, I run a background check.

Sad to say, we've not proceeded with certain people because they don't pass the criminal background check.

But everyone else in Dallas thinks this guy hung them in.

And I'm like, well,

Well, right.

I mean, we like to dig a little deeper beyond a background check, because sometimes, you know, the, um, your typical criminal background check isn't going to do a sweep of their social media, and what are they posting, and what are the patterns?

Like, uh, one of the concepts that was presented at that symposium is a database for gray area perpetrators.

So, this is someone who maybe had red flag behavior, but it didn't rise to criminal.