- 4thekids Missing Child Alert Services
Contains files of missing child reports, news, resources for families and details of the investigative team.
- Child CyberSEARCH Canada
Maintains a database of missing Canadian children and offers educational information related to runaways and abducted children.
- Covenant House
One of the largest privately-funded childcare agencies in the U.S., Covenant House provides services to homeless and runaway youth. The website addresses both youth considering running away and their parents, and offers information and confidential hotlines.
- Focus Adolescent Services: Runaways and Missing Children: Resources
Focus Adolescent Services's site on teenage problems includes a listing of helpful online runaway resources.
- Helping Runaway and Homeless Youth Grow up Safe and Secure
In this 1999 speech, Sec. of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala emphasizes the importance of the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act.
- Home Free Bus Service
Greyhound Lines, in conjunction with the National Runaway Switchboard, provides free one way transportation for runaway children returning home.
- Missing Child Search
Site listing organizations to search for a missing child.
- Missing Indian Kids
Site designed to help locate missing children in India.
- Missing Son
Parents of missing children share their experiences through this site, which also offers helpful hotlines and links.
- National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
Using state-of-the-art technology, this U.S. search network works with law enforcement agencies and other professionals to find runaways and other missing children. NCMEC also provides educational resources and a searchable database of missing children.
- National Runaway Switchboard
This 24-hour hotline service for U.S. parents and youth offers crisis intervention, message service, educational information, referrals, and runaway searches.
- Precious Heart: Archives: Runaway Children
The site provides bibliographies of publications related to the runaway experience in various categories such as "international works", "bibliographies and resource books", "shelters, law enforcement and psychology", and "legal, congresses and legislation".
- Project i - study of homeless young people
Homesite of a five year study and services funded by the National Institute of Mental Health focusing on homeless youth in Los Angeles, USA and Melbourne, Australia.
- Runaway Lives: Personal Stories and Reflections by Runaways and Their Families
Forum for runaways and their family members to share their experiences through writings or images.
- StandUp For Kids On-Line
Recipient of national (U.S.) awards and recognition, StandUp For Kids is an all volunteer organization working on the streets to help runaway and homeless youth.
- Teens in Trouble: Runaways
Listing of runaway related links maintained by a parent for other parents from the site "Teens in Trouble: A Survival Page for Parents".
- Texas Runaway Hotline
This nonprofit hotline service provides crisis intervention and telephone counseling, information and referrals for callers seeking food, shelter and transportation home, and confidential conference calls between runaways and their families.
- The Lost Child Emergency Broadcast System
Volunteer child recovery organization which broadcasts a runaway's photo and information to a web site banner and emails alert notices to volunteer recovery units and private locators in the missing child's home town or sighting location.
- The Runaway Game
This "choose-your-own-adventure" style hypertext novel with 20 different endings was created to help teenagers understand the realities of life as a runaway. At the end of each chapter, readers make choices which lead to different scenarios.
- Understanding and Preventing Teenage Runaways
Practical advice for parents and professionals including the motivations of teenage runaways, problems that increase the risk, warning signs, effective communication and steps to reduce the risk.
- When Your Child is Missing: A Family Survival Guide
Written by others who have experienced the trauma of a missing child, this excellent site offers a wealth of practical information and advice, as well as words of hope and encouragement, to parents of missing children.
- Yahoo! : Investigative Services: Missing Persons
Yahoo! directory list of commercial agencies which offer missing person location services.
- Youth Crisis Center
This community outreach program in Southeast Florida, USA gives short-term shelter and counseling to runaways. The site discusses many problems face by young people.
- Youth Link of America
Nonprofit organization devoted to helping runaway and homeless youth find the resources needed. Contains events and newsletter.
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