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  • AMBER Alert

A site by the Department of Justice that provides information on AMBER alerts, Public Service Announcements, a child safety guide, news, and a toolkit for raising awareness about missing children.

  • Association of Missing & Exploited Children Organization

AMECO is an organization of member agencies in the United States and Canada who provide services to families with missing and exploited children.

  • BairFind

Dennis Bair, a former minor league baseball player has an organization, BairFind. They put on autograph sessions at minor league baseball games in which the players sign team photos for the fans in attendance. There is a picture of a missing child in the upper corner of the team photo, along with that child’s vital information. The idea is that fans – especially kids – actually keep the signed pictures of their favorite players and teams. This leads to prolonged exposure of the missing child’s image, and a greater chance of recovery!

  • Beary Special Kids

A site dedicated to assisting in the recovery of missing children. A weekly newsletter with children’s pictures is published via email.

  • Beyond Missing

Beyond Missing provides law enforcement agencies with a secure, Internet based system to create and distribute missing child flyers to law enforcement, the media, and public and private recipients. There is no cost to agencies for this service and no proprietary hardware or software required.

  • California Missing Children Clearinghouse

Maintains a toll free telephone hotline 24 hours a day, seven days a week to receive information and inquiries regarding missing children. It relays this information to the appropriate law enforcement agencies.

  • Carole Sund/Carrington Memorial Reward Foundation

The Sund/Carrington Memorial Reward Fund has been established to provide resources to families without economic means to offer rewards for information to help law enforcement officials locate missing loved ones and to bring violent criminals to justice.

  • The Charley Project

The Charley Project is a website profiling over 4,000 “cold case” missing persons cases mainly from the United states. The website does not actively investigate cases; it is merely a publicity vehicle for cases which are often neglected by the press and forgotten all too soon.

 

  • Child Abduction Resource Center

A multilingual site of resources for parents dealing with child abduction.

  • Child Crisis Network

Online missing children agency.

  • Child Find of America, Inc.

National not for profit charity that locates missing children through active investigation, prevents child abduction through education, and resolves incidents of parental abduction through mediation.

  • A Child is Missing

Fort Lauderdale based nonprofit organization for locating missing children, the disabled and elderly during the first hours of disappearance. The A Child Is Missing alert program is called on by law enforcement agencies throughout the nation seeking assistance in locating missing children. .

  • Child Protection Education of America

Seeks to address the problem of missing and exploited children. Missing children cases, safety tips for children and their parents, and hotline.

  • Child Search

A free, full service site to assist the families of missing children.

  • Child Search National Missing Children Center

Child Search is a Ministry to families of missing and exploited children. Under certain circumstances the Center also helps families of missing adults.

  • Child Watch

This site includes cases of missing children, safety and abduction prevention information, recovered children stories, and child I.D. event information.

  • Cobra Missing Children Network

How to find, search for, and return kidnapped, runaway and missing children. Founded in 1979. Chartered by the State of Ohio.

  • Code Amber

Provides web site owners with a JavaScript news feed ticker that displays active Amber Alerts on their web pages. The ticker contains all pertinent information about the victim, the law enforcement agency issuing the alert and contact information for reporting sightings. Any available information about the perpetrator is also displayed.

  • Committee For Missing Children

Newsletter, events, photos of missing children, and other information for parents of missing children.

  • CUE Center for Missing Persons

Community United Effort (CUE) is a non-profit organization that provides service to families who suffer a missing loved one, law enforcement agencies and Search & Rescue of the lost, young and old.

  • The DOE Network

The Doe Network is a volunteer organization devoted to assisting Law Enforcement in solving cold cases 9 years and older concerning Unexplained Disappearances and Unidentified Victims from North America, Australia and Europe. It is our mission to give the nameless back their names and return the missing to their families.

  • Ekamtech

Ekamtech built these sites as a public service, to contribute to missing adults and children being repatriated with their families and to display the powerful features of mapping technologies.

Missing Adults Map and Missing Kids Map uses the Google Maps API together with information from the National Center for Missing Adults (NCMA) and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) to display a current map of the origins of missing adults and children in the United States and Canada.

  • Florida UnIdentified Decedents Database

As Medical Examiners, we all have cases in our offices in which the decedent remains unidentified. Our belief is that even though a cause and manner of death have been established, these cases are “perpetually pending.” This website was created to provide a central clearinghouse to family, friends or police searching for a missing person.

  • First Gov Site

Information for parents of missing children.

  • Fraser Valley Missing Children and Teens

View pictures of missing children and teenagers in the Fraser Valley, BC, Canada.

  • Gabriels Gifts.org

Gabriel’s Gifts helping families find lost children.

 

  • Laura Recovery Center Foundation

A nonprofit foundation that works to assist communities when faced with an abducted child and prevent child abductions.

  • Missing Children Resources

Listings of and links to articles, agencies, organizations and websites for information and resources concerning missing and runaway children.

  • Missing Children (South Africa)

This site has to do with one aspect of crime and that is against South Africa’s youth and especially those that easily fall prey to unscrupulous and evil people. This website is the first project undertaken by Real South Africa.co.za aimed at limiting crime; or at least trying to reduce the impact.

  • Missing Children Society of Canada

Non profit agency operating since 1986 offering investigative services. Experienced in missing, abducted or runaway children.

  • The Missing Cloud

Offering international and national missing persons information, support, places to post alerts and contact information.

  • Missing Kids Clearing House

A site of missing children who do not get much publicity, or are cold cases.

  • Morgan Nick Foundation

Works to recover missing children across the United States and serves as a support team to families and a liaison to law enforcement. Includes a tribute to the 6 year old namesake abducted in 1995.

  • National Center for Missing Adults (NCMA)

A resource site dedicated to abduction prevention, recovery, and support.

  • National Centre For Missing Children

A non profit, non governmental organization in India providing free services to the parents of missing kids. Online resources include searchable database of missing children.

  • National Center for Missing & Exploited Children

The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children’s® (NCMEC) mission is to help prevent child abduction and sexual exploitation; help find missing children; and assist victims of child abduction and sexual exploitation, their families, and the professionals who serve them.

  • National Crime Information Center (NCIC)

Should law enforcement determine your child is missing, make sure they enter them into NCIC.The purpose for maintaining the NCIC system is to provide a computerized database for ready access by a criminal justice agency making an inquiry and for prompt disclosure of information in the system from other criminal justice agencies about crimes and criminals. This information assists authorized agencies in criminal justice and related law enforcement objectives, such as apprehending fugitives, locating missing persons, locating and returning stolen property, as well as in the protection of the law enforcement officers encountering the individuals described in the system.

  • The National Runaway Switchboard

Our mission at the National Runaway Switchboard is to help keep America’s runaway and at-risk youth safe and off the streets.

  • Nebraska State Missing Persons Clearinghouse

On May 25, 2005, National Missing Children’s Day, the Nebraska Unicameral passed LB111, Jason’s Law, establishing the Missing Person’s Clearinghouse. Jason’s Law was created by the family of Jason Jolkowski, of Omaha. Jason was 19 years old when he disappeared from in front of his Omaha home on June 13, 2001. Jason remains one of the missing. His picture and information appear on the Missing Person’s Clearinghouse. The clearinghouse will serve as a central repository for information on missing persons to include missing children. The information is collected and disseminated to assist law enforcement agencies, public and private organizations and the citizens of Nebraska in locating missing persons.

  • New York State Missing and Exploited Children Clearinghouse

Information on missing kids in New York state.

  • The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)

OJJDP provides national leadership, coordination, and resources to prevent and respond to juvenile delinquency and victimization. OJJDP supports states and communities in their efforts to develop and implement effective and coordinated prevention and intervention programs and to improve the juvenile justice system so that it protects public safety, holds offenders accountable, and provides treatment and rehabilitative services tailored to the needs of juveniles and their families.

  • Our Missing Children

Multifaceted program that includes the RCMP’s Missing Children’s Registry.

  • Outpost For Hope

A nonprofit organization for families of those lost to the streets. Message boards, flyers, resources and inspirational materials.

  • The Polly Klaas Foundation

Foundation for Prevention of child abduction, and aid in the search.

  • Project Find

Will help find missing children and adults for free.

  • Project Jason

” Our mission as a non profit organization is to create and increase public awareness of missing people through a variety of outreach and educational activities. Project Jason seeks to bring hope and assistance to families of the missing by providing resources and support.”

  • Project Safe Kids

Project Safekids is a not for profit community service organization dedicated to creating awareness of the dangers that face our children and families daily.

  • SHG Resources: Missing and Exploit Children

Links to resources that provide parents with the tools needed to protect and safeguard their children. Check photographs and files on missing children.

 

  • Texas Equusearch

The Texas Equusearch Mounted Search and Recovery Team was started in August 2000, with the purpose to provide volunteer horse mounted search and recovery for Lost and Missing persons. Our resources range from horse and rider teams to foot searchers, water (divers, boats) air (planes, helicopters), dog teams (air scent, cadaver and tracking) and 4×4 vehicles. We have also utilized infrared cameras in some of our searches.

  • Too Old To Be a Missing Child

What happens when a young person goes missing, but is over the age of 18? Many agencies that assist in the search for younger kids won’t get involved.

  • United Response Search and Rescue Team

United Response Search and Rescue Team will provide search and recovery crisis intervention service for missing and abducted children and adults of all ages and backgrounds

  • Vanished Children’s Alliance

Established organization which provides services in the prevention, location, recovery and reunification of missing and abducted children since 1980.

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