What does the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children do for missing children?
I can tell you that in our particular case, we never even got fliers from them. They couldn't have been less impactful. Had they not existed, they couldn't have been less impactful. So, I believe that the best resource, when a family is faced with a child that's been abducted or is otherwise missing, the absolutely best resources would be the local resources. Any child find organization, and most states have them, most communities have some kind of connection to them, can offer you search services, offer you counselling services, offer you help with the media and/or law enforcement, or help you with flier creation and distribution. Those are the resources that are really vital and very, very necessary when a child goes missing. I think another good resource, particularly if one is having difficulty with law enforcement, is beyondmissing.com because at that resource you're able to create your own missing child flier. When I say having trouble with law enforcement, I mean a runaway kind of a situation, or if the cops say it's a runaway situation. Then you're able to create your own flier, you can save it as a PDF, and you can then Google a distribution list. When I say that, I'm talking about things like, maybe friends and family, maybe teen shelters, maybe runaway shelters, or if you think your child is gone in another community, you can do the same thing for that community. Start creating email distribution lists and then start emailing that PDF file to those locations, and you can really go a long way towards working towards your own recovery by doing that.
