Missing Children
Our goal is to keep you informed with the most up to date information and provide resources that may be helpful to you or someone you know when it comes to missing children.
Many families feel they are faced with new and unprecedented challenges when trying to keep their children safer in today’s fast-paced society. It is important to be aware and alert, but families do not need to be afraid. Families should, however, be wary of expensive gadgets and gimmicks purporting to protect children or any sort of fee-charging data collection or registration services storing information about children. Parents and guardians should be the only people to keep this information about their children.
The most important key to helping keep your children safer is effective communication with them. The first step you should take is to establish an atmosphere in the home in which your children truly feel comfortable about discussing sensitive matters and relating experiences in which anyone may have approached them in an inappropriate manner or a way that made them feel sad, scared or confused. The truth is children are often too afraid or confused to report their experiences and fears. Allow them to talk freely about their likes, dislikes, friends and feelings.
Below you will find various resources you can use to prepare for the remote possibility a child may be missing someday. It also provides instructions about the immediate actions to take when a child is missing.