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OJJDP National Amber Alert Training and Technical Assistance Program

Award Information

Award #
2017-MC-FX-K003
Funding Category
Competitive Discretionary
Location
Congressional District
Status
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2017
Total funding (to date)
$20,400,000

Description of original award (Fiscal Year 2017, $2,400,000)

The National AMBER Alert Training and Technical Assistance Program provides training and technical assistance support to enhance the national AMBER Alert network; increases and improves law enforcement response to missing, endangered, and abducted children; increases the recovery rate of abducted children; strengthens child alert systems in the nation’s northern and southern borders to better protect American children abducted to or through foreign countries; creates greater community capacity in understanding broader issues related to exploitation and abuse of children; continues support of this work in Indian Country; and enhances public participation in the recovery of missing, endangered, and abducted children. CA/NCF

Date Created: September 29, 2017