Born Between 2 Generals
Every tool built here does one job: keep a child safe, and keep a family whole. This is what exists, what each one does, and who it is for.
Be first through the door
The letter is called Letters from the Rings. Three are already written, and they are sent — not posted. Here is what is in them.
One letter. What is finished, what is opening next, and what a family or a church can actually do this month.
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How it is built
The child, the family, the places they go, and the community around all three. Each ring covers what the one inside it cannot.
The child
Five things taught rather than installed: identity, discernment, resilience, boundaries and courage. Twenty minutes at a kitchen table, a parent and a child working the same scenario side by side. A monitored child hides. A trained child tells you, because she has a word for it and knows she will not lose her phone for being honest.
Running nowThe family
Three doors, for the three moments a family actually has. Right Now is the worst ten minutes: three questions, and back comes an order of operations sorted by what cannot be undone. Bulkhead is before anything happens: sixteen settings on a phone, and in plain words what floods if you leave one open. Salvage is afterward, and it opens by telling most people they are probably not hacked and showing them how to tell.
Running nowThe places they go
A boundary around schools, playgrounds, libraries and pools. A person under court-ordered monitoring who comes toward that line gets a private warning first and a chance to turn around. If he keeps coming, the alarm sounds where it happened — and unlike a smoke alarm it means go toward it, so adults become visible and place themselves between him and the children. It never says a name.
Engineered, not yet builtThe community
Most children removed from a home are not removed for cruelty. They are removed because a family was poor on the wrong week: a car will not start, the job is lost, the lights go off. Families post what they need and angels answer, neighbour to neighbour — a tyre, a car repair, school clothes, groceries, a utility bill. Every partner vetted. Piloting in Florida, open everywhere else.
Running nowRecognising it
Six tools built to be used together, sharing one evidence standard so a claim is rated the same way wherever it appears.
Sextortion and grooming recognition, with separate parent and teen tracks because the two need different words for the same thing. This is the one to hand a parent who has just found something on a phone at eleven at night.
Opening soonDecision support for the people legally required to report and terrified of getting it wrong — children’s ministry workers, teachers, coaches, youth leaders. A reasonable-suspicion meter that tells a worry from a duty, and a script for the moment you pick up the phone.
Opening soonA report card on trafficking law, state by state. Grades what is actually on the books, so you can see where your own state is strong and where it is not. Nothing is estimated — a grade requires verified sources, so a state that reports less can never outrank one that reports honestly.
Opening soonThe legislative watch. Where Plumbline grades the law as it stands, Lodestar tracks the bills in motion — what is moving right now, and where a phone call from a constituent still matters.
Opening soonAfter-care navigation for survivors — the part almost nobody funds. Working the unlock chain of identity documents, benefits and housing, plus credit repair under the Debt Bondage Repair Act, because traffickers routinely destroy a survivor’s credit and it follows them for years.
Opening soonCapstone walks a small organisation through federal grant readiness with the deadline maths worked backwards from the due date. Sounding is a data explorer built around what the data cannot answer — deliberately, so nobody in this field quotes a number they cannot stand behind.
Opening soonFor the children themselves
We are not teaching children to spot bad people. We are teaching them to notice pressure, secrecy, coercion, isolation and obligation — then giving them the counter-skills.
Twenty-five books across four age bands, from about four years old up to seventeen. The facts are never delivered as facts — they are spoken through characters in scene: a parent to a child, two kids talking, a brother and sister. Every book in the series is a fundraiser.
Opening soonThe same skills, as a game. Scored on three pillars rather than one — Solve, Help and Integrity — so winning requires being decent, not merely clever. Includes a Junior Toolkit for the youngest players.
Opening soonHow to take care of yourself: grooming, hygiene, how to tie a tie, how to organise a room, and an etiquette module where a young person picks a situation and gets what to wear and how to carry themselves. A great many young people have no parent to teach them any of it, and a young person who feels capable is markedly harder to recruit.
Opening soonA child who is taught well is harder to fool, and harder to divide from the people who love her. Ariel teaches and reads aloud, Candlehour is the family surface, Parhelion tells what on the web can be believed, Skylark is practice as play. We measure what a child learned, never what held their attention.
Opening soonThe child-safety platform, and the recognition layer under the whole effort — built to help ordinary people see what is in front of them before it becomes a case.
Opening soonA book-length citizen’s guide to human trafficking and hidden exploitation, written for the ordinary reader who wants the whole picture rather than a headline.
Opening soonHolding the system to account
Child-welfare accountability across every jurisdiction. Where the other tools grade the law, this grades the system and the money: safety, permanency, stability, capacity and transparency, alongside what each agency and contractor was actually paid. Prevalence and agency performance are held on separate axes and never merged, so a state is not punished for having hard problems. Everything is aggregate — no individual case record ever enters it. Seeded with Florida in full detail.
Opening soonVetted, and standing with us
No organisation appears here because we like them. Each one is checked before it is listed, and the person who lists is never the person who verifies. What follows is who they are, what they actually do, and where to go to work with them. ARC is listed first because they trained the rest of us.
Bazzel BazFounder & President · Tina BazCounter-Trafficking Program Director
Vetted partner — recovery operations, and the training behind the rest of us
Founded in 1993, one of the oldest child-recovery organisations in the United States. Their sentence is the whole standard: we don’t come home without the child.
ARC recovers missing, exploited and trafficked American children, and it is staffed by people who did this work for a living first — former and active intelligence officers, military special operators and law enforcement investigators. Bazzel Baz served as a CIA Intelligence Special Operations Group paramilitary case officer and holds the Intelligence Commendation Medal; before that, Marine Corps counter-terrorism. Tina Baz runs the counter-human-trafficking programme and the legislative side of the house. Recovery work is done at no cost to the custodial parent.
A registered 501(c)(3), operating since 1993. In 2019 ARC was brought into a White House and Department of Justice legislative initiative on missing and exploited children. They run at two addresses — recoveryofchildren.org and recoveryofchildren.com — and both are theirs. They are the recovery end of the Sarasota arch, the pillar that goes and gets the child, and they are listed first here for a plain reason: they trained the rest of us.
Rooted in faith
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Forged by freedom
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Led by fathers
Founding partner — fathers, online exploitation
A father’s answer to sextortion and grooming: teach the family before it happens, and when it is already happening, get the thing in front of the people who are lawfully able to act on it.
D.A.D.S. writes plain-language guides on grooming, financial sextortion, platform-hopping, AI-generated imagery and device lock-down, and keeps them current as predators change tactics. Claims are checked against the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, the FBI and the Internet Watch Foundation before they are published. When a family comes in mid-crisis, D.A.D.S. does not investigate — it routes: the NCMEC CyberTipline, the FBI, the ICAC task forces, and Take It Down for imagery of a minor.
The Safety Hub was built here for them — six tools, nothing typed ever leaves the device: the Family Safety Toolkit, Threat Watch, the Education Library, Know Your Neighborhood, the Training Finder and Card Studio. No accounts, no uploads, no trackers.
Jacquelyn AluottoCo-Founder & President
Vetted partner — prevention zones, courtroom advocacy
Most anti-trafficking work happens after a child is gone. Jackie’s work happens on the ground the traffickers are standing on: make the place itself a bad place to try it.
No Trafficking Zone launched in January 2020 and does three things at once. It establishes declared No Trafficking Zones — stadiums, event corridors, foster facilities, high-risk markets — where penalties are higher and the community has been taught what to look for. It puts trained justice advocates beside families and survivors in civil and criminal court, so nobody walks into that room alone. And it pushes the legislation that makes the penalty real. Jackie Aluotto is a twenty-year veteran of this field and testified before the House Judiciary Committee on April 27, 2022.
A pillar of the Sarasota arch. Prevention and courtroom advocacy — the ring that closes the ground before a child is taken, and stands in the room afterward.
Leah StaufferFounder & Chief Executive
Vetted partner — foster care, permanency, data
Leah was born into foster care and adopted at four months old. She started as a documentary producer, and then stopped filming the problem and went to fix it. The name is the number. The motto is the whole point: let’s get them home for GOOD.
Half a Million Kids exists to place every adoption-eligible child in a safe, permanent home, and it works from a results-based three-phase plan rather than a slogan. The HMK Blueprint brings real-time data and transparency to a system that mostly cannot tell you where its children are — including identifying foster children who have gone missing or been trafficked. The BBF House Parent Model is state-licensed, has been acknowledged by the Governor, and has served more than two hundred children across three homes in the Pennsylvania pilot. HomeBase™ carries the whole child, not just the placement. The near target is 3,400 children in the Philadelphia region; the far target is the half million the name refers to.
A registered 501(c)(3) in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, and a pillar of the Sarasota arch — the ring that gets a child all the way home and keeps them there.
Cathy O’BrienSurvivor & Author · Mark PhillipsCo-Author
Vetted partner — survivor testimony, recovery
Every other ring on this page protects a child from something. Cathy’s work answers the question the other rings cannot: what happens to the person afterward, and how do they heal.
Cathy O’Brien and Mark Phillips have spent decades putting survivor testimony on the record and, more importantly, putting recovery within reach of people who were told they had none. TRANCE Formation of America and ACCESS DENIED For Reasons Of National Security are the testimony. PTSD: Time to Heal is the working end of it — a workbook and journal that a survivor can actually pick up and use, which is why it sits as the base plate of the Sarasota arch rather than as a footnote. The arch does not stand on the pillars alone. It stands on healing.
Codebreaker — the research standard behind this ring Codebreaker is our research arm on the declassified record: BLUEBIRD, ARTICHOKE and MKULTRA, worked from primary documents at the National Archives and the CIA reading room rather than from retellings. It runs on one rule, and the rule is the reason it can be trusted. A documented research objective, a proposed operation, an experiment actually performed, a claimed result, a replicated result and modern scientific support are six different things, and Codebreaker never merges them into one sentence. Where a page image cannot be verified, the passage is marked unverified and stays that way until two independent reviewers have looked at it. The surviving record does establish that these programmes investigated post-hypnotic control, induced amnesia, narco-hypnosis and behavioural re-orientation. It does not establish a universal code, a command word, guaranteed memory erasure or an instant cure — and we will not say that it does. The full dossier is held with the letters and sent by hand, not published.
The base plate of the Sarasota arch. Between them, Codebreaker keeps the history honest and PTSD: Time to Heal keeps the survivor moving.
One pillar of the Sarasota arch is not listed yet. Family First Foundation is vetted and standing with us; their page goes up here the moment their address is confirmed, with its own doors and its own code below.
The newsletter
One letter at a time, each one from inside a single ring. No spectacle, no scare copy, and no headline that outruns the evidence behind it. If a thing is designed but not built, the letter says so.
Every letter answers four questions.
What problem are we observing? What system produces it? What can you do about it this week? And what tool would make that action repeatable?
Sent, not published
The letters are not posted on this site. Each one goes out by hand — to the people who asked for it, and to the board and partners who need it before anyone else does. Ask for them and they come to you.
Letter No. 01
Ring four — the community
Most children removed from a home are not removed for cruelty. They are removed because a family was poor on the wrong week. That is a solvable problem, and a neighbour eight minutes away solves it faster than an agency three weeks out.
Sent on requestLetter No. 02
How a partner gets listed
Every safeguarding failure worth studying came through the same gap: the person everyone already knew did not get checked. Here is the vetting rule we write down before the first partner is listed, and why the person who lists is never the person who verifies.
Sent on requestLetter No. 03
Ring three — the places they go
To know that a monitored adult is at a school door, it looks like you have to track the child. You do not, and the difference is the whole design. Anchored zones, rotating identifiers, and a system that can be certain without being able to say a name.
Sent on requestRoughly one letter a month, by email. Reply to any of them and it reaches Kristen directly.
Start it where you live
A pilot is not a franchise, a chapter, or a branch office. Nobody has to be hired, nothing has to be built, and no one has to ask permission. It is a small group of people in one place who agree to do three things: let families say what they need, keep a list of who can answer, and close the loop when a need is met.
Why it has to start small and local. A need answered by a stranger three states away is charity. A need answered by someone eight minutes down the road is a neighbourhood repairing itself — and it is the only version that keeps working after the money stops.
A trusted door, standing volunteers, and a room. The fastest lane to a first answered need.
No institution required. A street, a block, a group of families who already know each other.
Tight networks, daytime hours, and parents already organised around their children.
Sees the need before anyone else does — the shoes, the empty lunch, the missed days.
Professional capacity, existing vetting, and a case worker who knows the terrain.
Goods, skilled trades, employee hours, and the ability to answer a whole category of need at once.
That is the whole list. No budget line, no staff, no software purchase, and no legal entity of your own. The board and the tooling are provided. What a pilot supplies is people and local knowledge.
Days 1–14
Name the anchor. Recruit the first angels. Agree the vetting rule in writing. Open one way in for families.
Days 15–30
Take three real needs and finish them. Small ones. The point is to learn the loop, not to scale it.
Days 31–60
Tell the wider community it exists. Add partners through the vetting rule. Expect volume to jump.
Days 61–90
Read the record. Report the numbers honestly, including what you failed to meet. Decide whether to continue.
The rule that protects a new pilot: do not advertise before you have answered three needs. A pilot that announces itself widely on day one gets more requests than it can close, and a need that is posted and abandoned does more damage to a family than never having asked.
The full playbook — the five roles, the six numbers a pilot counts, and the lane-by-lane first moves — is sent to you once you get in touch.
One door, three reasons
Whether you want the letters, want to start a pilot where you live, or want to ask about one of the apps — it is the same short form. Pick a reason and it reaches Kristen directly.
The form opens your own mail app with the message already written, addressed to kristen@bornbetween2generals.com — so nothing is stored anywhere until Kristen reads it. If your device does not open a mail app, write to that address directly and say which of the three you want.
Scan to open
Point a phone camera at any code below. Each one opens a different place, and every one of them is answered by the same person.
Start here
This page. Every tool, what it does, who it is for, and how to sign up.
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Ring four — running now
Leave word, a neighbour answers. Families post what they need and vetted angels answer.
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Partner — the organisation
Rooted in faith, forged by freedom, led by fathers. Education, threat alerts, and reporting straight to the authorities.
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A vetted founding partner of Born Between 2 Generals.
Partner — the tools
Six tools for a household. Nothing typed into them leaves the phone — no accounts, no uploads, no trackers.
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Partner — recovery operations
Bazzel and Tina Baz. Recovering missing, exploited and trafficked American children since 1993 — at no cost to the custodial parent.
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A vetted partner of Born Between 2 Generals.
Partner — prevention and courts
Jackie Aluotto. Declared zones with higher penalties, a trained community, and justice advocates standing with families in court.
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A vetted partner of Born Between 2 Generals.
Partner — permanency
Leah Stauffer. Every adoption-eligible child in a safe permanent home. Let’s get them home for GOOD.
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A vetted partner of Born Between 2 Generals.
Partner — survivor recovery
Cathy O’Brien and Mark Phillips. Survivor testimony on the record, and PTSD: Time to Heal — the base plate of the arch.
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For churches and parents
A parents’ night or a class. Runs immediately and needs only a room.
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For the children themselves
The same discernment skills, as a game. Scored on Solve, Help and Integrity.
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For anything at all — the letters, a pilot, one of the apps, a church, a school, a homeschool group or a company — contact kristen@bornbetween2generals.com