NCJ Number
189469
Date Published
1996
Length
1500 pages
Annotation
This looseleaf manual presents the agenda and materials from a 3-day training workshop held in 1996 to enhance the response to missing children and their families by encouraging a cooperative and coordinated approach by public and private agencies.
Abstract
The speakers included Federal, State, and local officials and included representatives of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, police agencies, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, and the Association of Missing and Exploited Children’s Organization. Sessions focused on the responses of law enforcement, prosecutors, and nonprofit organizations to missing children’s cases; techniques for accessing and searching for information on the Internet; and strategies and tactics to enhance an organization’s ability to develop and market its services. An additional session consisted of an interagency group exercise. Another panel focused on encouraging a compassionate, professional response by public and private agencies to families of missing children through understanding of the issues of grief, loss, psychological impact, the initial response by law enforcement, victim services, and the role of nonprofit organizations and State clearinghouses. The final sessions consisted of group exercises and reports by groups participating in the training program. Checklists, outlines, figures, forms, tables, reference lists, speaker biographies, and lists of government agencies and resource organizations related to missing children’s issues