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What to do if Your Child is Missing
- Immediately call your local law enforcement agency. Provide law enforcement with your child’s name, date of birth, height, weight and descriptions of any other unique identifiers such as eyeglasses and braces. Tell them when you noticed your child was missing and what clothing he or she was wearing.
- Request law enforcement authorities immediately enter your child’s name and identifying information into the FBI’s National Crime Information Center Missing Person File
- After you have reported your child missing to law enforcement, call the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children® (NCMEC) at 1-800-THE-LOST® (1-800-843-5678).
National Runaway Safeline
The mission of the National Runaway Safeline (NRS) is to help keep America's runaway, homeless and at-risk youth safe and off the streets. Through 1-800-RUNAWAY nad 1800RUNAWAY.org, NRS provided 24/7/365 trauma sensitive solution-focused crisis interventions, information and referral via our nearly 7,000 resource database and runaway education and prevention services
National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) is a non-profit
501(c)(3) coporations whose mission is to help find missing children, reduce child sexual
exploitation,
and prevent child victimization. Since 1984, NCMEC has served as the national clearinghouse and
resource
center for families, victims, privte organizations, law enforcement and the public on issues
relating to
missing and sexually exploited children.
