Friday, May 22, 2009
National Missing Children's Day...
Monday may be Memorial Day, but May 25th is also National Missing Children's Day.
It's one of the worst possible nightmares for parents: having a child go missing. Measures to keep children safe continue to increase, yet it only takes seconds to have a loved one go missing--almost literally before your eyes. Many innocent children continue to be abducted by strangers each year, often with parents nearby.
National Missing Children's Day was first proclaimed by President Ronald Reagan 27 years ago and observed by every administration since. May 25th is the anniversary of the day in 1979 when 6-year-old Etan Patz disappeared from a New York street corner on his way to school.
His story captivated the nation. His photo, taken by his father, a professional photographer, was circulated nationwide and appeared in media across the nation and around the world. Etan became the poster-child for a movement. The powerful image came to symbolize the anguish and trauma of thousands of searching families.
For nearly three decades, the search for Etan has continued. Just as that day when President Reagan proclaimed the first National Missing Children's Day, Etan is still missing. The widespread attention brought to his case and those of others eventually led to a nationwide commitment to help locate and recover missing children.
National Missing Children's Day honors this commitment by reminding parents, guardians, and other trusted-adult role models to make child safety a priority.
What can you do to help?
Monday may be Memorial Day, but May 25th is also National Missing Children's Day.
It's one of the worst possible nightmares for parents: having a child go missing. Measures to keep children safe continue to increase, yet it only takes seconds to have a loved one go missing--almost literally before your eyes. Many innocent children continue to be abducted by strangers each year, often with parents nearby.
National Missing Children's Day was first proclaimed by President Ronald Reagan 27 years ago and observed by every administration since. May 25th is the anniversary of the day in 1979 when 6-year-old Etan Patz disappeared from a New York street corner on his way to school.
His story captivated the nation. His photo, taken by his father, a professional photographer, was circulated nationwide and appeared in media across the nation and around the world. Etan became the poster-child for a movement. The powerful image came to symbolize the anguish and trauma of thousands of searching families.
For nearly three decades, the search for Etan has continued. Just as that day when President Reagan proclaimed the first National Missing Children's Day, Etan is still missing. The widespread attention brought to his case and those of others eventually led to a nationwide commitment to help locate and recover missing children.
National Missing Children's Day honors this commitment by reminding parents, guardians, and other trusted-adult role models to make child safety a priority.
What can you do to help?
- Even though most children are taken by people they know, it can help to teach your children about "Stranger Danger." Take the quiz to see how their knowledge rates.
- Take 25 minutes to talk to your children about safety. NCMEC's (National Center for Missing and Exploited Children) national campaign encourages parents, guardians, and other trusted-adult role models to spend time talking to kids and teaching them ways to be safer.
- Donate to support NCMEC programs and services.
- Add a banner or link to www.missingkids.com.
- Opt to receive posters of missing children via e-mail.
- Search and view posters from our database of missing children.
- Sign up to receive Wireless AMBER Alerts.
- Use your NetSmartz! NCMEC’s award-winning, interactive, educational safety program that teaches children how to be safer on- and offline.
- Promote National Missing Children's Day
- www.childquest.org/cqvideo.php
- www.got2bsafe.com
- www.icactraining.org/Resources.htm
- www.kidsintheknow.ca/app/en/resource_library
- www.netsmartz.org/educators.htm
- www.pollyklaas.com www.radkids.org
// posted by Tammy Wachter @ 5:40 AM 
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LostNMissing, ran by a gal who makes banners for the Lost and Missing, has been entered into a contest on Twitter.
If she ends up in the final twenty, she will have a huge spotlight put on her work that highlights the Lost and Missing.
I run www.InformingChristians.com and was contacted by one of her people.
The Twitter page keeps giving people a hard time opening and a lot of people give up trying to vote. As a result, all the pretty girls that are in it just for fame are winning. Some already famous people are in the contest too, like Oprah.
People can vote twice an hour, and the contest ends, June 8, 2009.
Information can be found on a page of mine:
http://debrajmsmith.com/060309HL.html
Thanks for any help,
Debra J.M. Smith
of
www.InformingChristians.com
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If she ends up in the final twenty, she will have a huge spotlight put on her work that highlights the Lost and Missing.
I run www.InformingChristians.com and was contacted by one of her people.
The Twitter page keeps giving people a hard time opening and a lot of people give up trying to vote. As a result, all the pretty girls that are in it just for fame are winning. Some already famous people are in the contest too, like Oprah.
People can vote twice an hour, and the contest ends, June 8, 2009.
Information can be found on a page of mine:
http://debrajmsmith.com/060309HL.html
Thanks for any help,
Debra J.M. Smith
of
www.InformingChristians.com
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