OJJDP FY 2020 National AMBER Alert Training and Technical Assistance Program

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 while implementing the Ashlynne Mike AMBER Alert in Indian Country Act of 2018; and enhances public participation in the recovery of missing, endangered, and abducted children.

Fox Valley Technical College (FVTC) program activities will include: Eighteen onsite training programs; five regional training events; two specialized events for U.S. Territories and Alaska; one national meeting for AMBER Alert Coordinators and Clearinghouse Managers; twenty state-tribal AMBER plan implementation meetings; three cross-border meetings; one Family Roundtable; one Child Sex Trafficking Survivor Roundtable; three Child Abduction Response Team (CART) Certification assessments; three Child Abduction Response Team (CART) Train the Trainer programs; eight tribal Regional Training events; and one Native American/Alaskan Native Roundtable. CA/NCF

The National AMBER Alert Training and Technical Assistance Program provides training and technical assistance support to enhance national AMBER Alert network; increases and improves law enforcement response to missing, endangered, and abducted children; increases recovery rate of abducted children; strengthens child alert systems in nation’s northern and southern borders to better protect American children abducted to or through foreign countries; creates greater community capacity understanding broader issues related to exploitation and abuse of children; supports this work in Indian Country while implementing the Ashlynne Mike AMBER Alert in Indian Country Act of 2018; and enhances public participation in recovery of missing, endangered, and abducted children.

FVTC will work closely with OJJDP, National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) and appropriate agencies, organizations, and professionals to provide training and technical assistance to law enforcement agencies, AMBER Alert coordinators, child protection professionals, broadcasters, and others concerned with child abduction and victimization. FVTC will consult with OJJDP, who will provide input and guidance on training topics, publications, manuals, training conferences, and other substantive program issues and deliverables.

FVTC and its partners, in cooperation with OJJDP, will design, develop, and deliver all project services. Activities include: 18 Onsite Training programs, AMBER Alert Coordinators and Clearinghouse Managers meetings, development of 3 eLearning courses, 18 technical assistance events, 5 regional meetings (encompassing multiple states), 20 State-Tribal AMBER plan implementation meetings in Indian Country, 8 webinars, 3 international/border meetings, 1 Family Roundtable meeting, 3 CART Certification assessments, 3 CART train the trainer programs, 8 newsletters and publications, 1 Child Sex Trafficking Survivor Roundtable meeting, 15 tribal community outreach events, and 1 National AMBER Alert and AMBER Alert in Indian Country Symposium.  These trainings and technical assistance programs will improve the capacity, capabilities, skills, and response to incidents of missing, endangered, and abducted children and will be measured through pre-post program, and impact evaluation instruments.  FVTC will conduct a national assessment of the status of AMBER Alert plans in tribal communities and will maintain advanced web-based platform for information and resources as well as continue the work of providing resources to tribal child protection program through use of FVTC's AMBER Alert in Indian Country website and web portal.

This program provides training and technical assistance support to enhance national AMBER Alert network; increases and improves law enforcement response to missing, endangered, and abducted children; increases recovery rate of abducted children; strengthens child alert systems in nation’s northern and southern borders to better protect American children abducted to or through foreign countries; creates greater community capacity understanding broader issues related to exploitation and abuse of children; will continue support of this work in Indian Country while implementing the Ashlynne Mike AMBER Alert in Indian Country Act of 2018; and enhances public participation in recovery of missing, endangered, and abducted children.

FVTC will work closely with OJJDP, National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) and appropriate agencies, organizations, and professionals to provide training and technical assistance to law enforcement agencies, AMBER Alert coordinators, child protection professionals, broadcasters, and others concerned with child abduction and victimization. FVTC will consult with OJJDP, who will provide input and guidance on training topics, publications, manuals, training conferences, and other substantive program issues and deliverables.