{"id":82680,"date":"2019-02-11T08:30:52","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T14:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/?p=82680"},"modified":"2019-02-05T16:30:18","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T22:30:18","slug":"fireside-chat-february-11-2019-john-clark-review-of-child-safety-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2019\/02\/fireside-chat-february-11-2019-john-clark-review-of-child-safety-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"Fireside Chat &#8211; February 11, 2019 &#8211; John Clark, Review of Child Safety Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joining President LaForge to talk about the Child Safety Summit is John Clark, President and CEO of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, referred to as NCMEC.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YcTBMdbNsyw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Delta State University recently hosted an important summit titled the \u201cChild Safety Summit: Understanding Child Trafficking, Exploitation, and Abuse\u201d which was a daylong event and included national, regional, and state experts in the prevention of child human trafficking. Here are some figures on the topics discussed at the summit.<\/p>\n<p>\u20221 in 5 children is sexually solicited while on the internet; about 35% of victims are 11 years old or younger<br \/>\n\u2022In 2015, there were 8,730 victims of abuse or neglect in Mississippi alone, a rate of 12 per 1,000 children, an increase of 3.5% from 2014.<br \/>\n\u2022Of these children, 75% were neglected, 15% were physically abused, and 10% were sexually abused.<br \/>\n\u2022In 2016, the National Human Trafficking Hotline received a total of 34,000 phone calls, emails, or online tip reports nationwide and 2,300 children were reported as victims.<\/p>\n<p>In other news on campus, the Bologna Performing Arts Center will show the movie \u201cWreck It Ralph 2\u201d on February 12 at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are $5 and can be purchased at bolognapac.com.<\/p>\n<p>In athletic news, men\u2019s tennis will host Alcorn State University on Tuesday. And, both men\u2019s and women\u2019s tennis teams will host Shorter University on Friday. For match times, visit gostatesmen.com.<\/p>\n<p>To keep up with all of our news, events and activities, please visit our website at deltastate.edu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joining President LaForge to talk about the Child Safety Summit is John Clark, President and CEO of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, referred to as NCMEC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":554,"featured_media":79477,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-president"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/554"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82680"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82682,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82680\/revisions\/82682"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}