Resource Listing for Missing Children and Adults
Resources
- 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.
- Angel Safe Foundation – Provides information on missing children, child safety tips, and memorials.
- 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.
- Child Abduction is Child Abuse – Report presented to the United Nations Convention on Child Rights.
- Child Abduction Resource Center – A multi-lingual 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 non-profit organization for locating missing children, the disabled and elderly during the first hours of disappearance. Serves several states throughout the country.
- 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.
- 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 includes 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.
- Houston Regional Amber Plan Alerts – In memory of Amber Hagerman, who was abducted and murdered in 1996, (ARM) created a program so that the police department could recover abducted children.
- Interstate Association for Stolen Children – Profiles missing children.
- Kid Protection Network – A resource for community safety for children. Information, support letters, pamphlets, links.
- Kid Search Network – Provides free child ID kits, child safety information, missing children statistics and legislation, as well as child abduction prevention articles.
- Missing Children Resources – Listings of and links to articles, agencies, organizations and websites for information and resources concerning missing and runaway children.
- Missing Children Society of Canada – Non profit agency operating since 1986 offering investigative services. Experienced in missing, abducted or runaway children.
- 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.
- New York State Missing and Exploited Children Clearinghouse – Information on missing kids in New York state.
- Our Missing Children – Multi-faceted program that includes the RCMP’s Missing Children’s Registry.
- Outpost For Hope – A non-profit 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.
- 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.
- TamaraBrooks.org – Tamara Brooks sponsors the Tamara Brooks Fund and speaks out on the Amber Alert System to help victims of childhood violence.
- They Are Missing – A resource site dedicated to abduction prevention, recovery, and support.
- Vanished Children’s Alliance – Established organization which provides services in the prevention, location, recovery and reunification of missing and abducted children since 1980.
Additional Resources
When Your Child is Missing – A Family Survival Guide
http://ojjdp.ncjrs.org/pubs/childismissing/contents.html
National Center for Missing Adults
http://www.theyaremissed.org/ncma/index.php
America’s Most Wanted
http://www.amw.com/missing_persons/resources.cfm
