"January is National Anti-Human Trafficking Month"
    With the above in mind, and the fact that Human Trafficking is the fastest growing crime in America, we have scheduled Ms Opal Singleton of Million Kids/Riverside County Sheriff’s Anti-Human Trafficking Task Force, along with Dr Andrew Doan and his wife Julie Doan, RN, to come to the Hemet Historical Theatre on January 21st^th, from 5:30 PM to 9:00 PM to present their combined program about online gaming addiction and human trafficking, “The End Game, the battle for your child's soul”.
(A free presentation on how Social Media and On Line Gaming can lead to grooming, recruitment, exploitation, and addiction. Come listen to the experts and find out the facts about what is happening right here in our community and how you can help! Presented by Million Kids, because one million kids are trafficked each year.  Light refreshments will be served. For information, contact Ken Kidby (951) 205-9971.)

    Below we have included short biographies of our presenters to give you an idea of their qualifications on this subject.
    Opal Singleton is the President and CEO of Million Kids and Board Member and Director of Development for Rapha House International. Both organizations exist to combat human trafficking in the U.S and Internationally. She serves as the Training and Outreach Coordinator for Riverside County Anti Human Trafficking Task Force and works closely with Law Enforcement.   Much of the information in her presentations is based on real cases. 
    Ms Singleton has trained tens of thousands of Government Officials, School Administrators, Social Outreach Organizations, Civic Leaders, Faith Based Organizations and Prominent Individuals about Human Trafficking in the U.S. and around the globe.   She served as the Acting Country Director of the largest safe house in Cambodia that rescues kids from sex slavery. 
    Opal retired after a long career in International Marketing where she accrued nearly 3 million frequent flyer miles.  This gave her an opportunity to witness exploitation and poverty in every continent on earth.  She has dedicated her retirement years to saving children from exploitation where ever she can.  Simply stated, she cares about our kids and their families. She recently authored a book called “Seduced: The Grooming of America’s Teenagers”, a very good reference book on this subject.
     Dr. Andrew Doan is both a PHD and an MD. His primary academic research focus is in  neurobiology and the physiology of process addictions, such as problematic video gaming, Internet addiction disorder, and pornography addiction. He is head of the Department of Mental Health, Addictions and Resilience Research, Naval Medical Center San Diego.
    Dr. Doan is a recognized expert in technology and video game addiction who battled his own addictions with video games. He was an addicted gamer, who at his peak, invested over 20,000 hours of playing games over a period of nine years. His doctoral degree in neuroscience, from Johns Hopkins University, adds in-depth knowledge into the areas of Internet Addiction, Video Game Addiction, and Technology Addiction. Dr. Doan is author of a great book called “Hooked on Games”. 
    Dr. Doan is joined by his wife Julie who is a Registered Nurse and has spent countless hours lecturing with Dr. Doan on how gaming addictions affect relationships with spouses, children , and the impact on social and spiritual lives.  Julie is the mother of three exceptional young people and has real life experience with the challenges of raising children with a healthy approach to balancing technology and real life relationships.