AMBER Alert

The January/February issue of OJJDP News @ A Glance is now available. In this issue's Message From the Administrator, Caren Harp discusses the vital role mentoring can play in ensuring a brighter future for our nation's youth: Students who meet regularly with their mentors are 52 percent less likely than their peers to skip a day of school, 46 percent less likely to start using...

OJJDP has released the latest issue of The AMBER Advocate newsletter. This issue features articles on:

• The 2019 AMBER Alert in Indian Country Symposium and remarks by Pamela Foster, the mother of Ashlynne Mike, a Navajo girl who was abducted and murdered.
• The Good Samaritan and Minnesota AMBER Alert that lead to the safe return of two abducted girls.
• Tanea Parmenter, Idaho's AMBER Alert co-coordinator...

OJJDP has released the latest issue of The AMBER Advocate newsletter. This issue features articles on:

• The tragic ties between missing and abducted children and child sex trafficking, spotlighted at the 2019 National AMBER Alert Symposium,
• The Navajo Nation symposium on child sex trafficking in tribal communities, and
• European police officers' animated video created for International Missing Children's Day.

The AMBER Advocate newsletter is now...

OJJDP has launched a refreshed AMBER Alert website. The refreshed website now includes access to the AMBER Alert in Indian Country website, a summary of the AMBER Alert in Indian Country Initiative, and training and technical assistance resources. The website, managed by the Office of Justice Programs (OJP), provides resources to help regional and state-level AMBER Alert training and coordination efforts...

The Office of Justice Programs (OJP) has posted a new blog discussing AMBER Alerts in Indian country born out of the tragic abduction and murder of 11-year-old Ashlynne Mike of the Navajo Nation in 2016. The tragedy revealed that American Indian Tribes lacked access to the AMBER Alert system to assist in the recovery of abducted children.

The blog details this summer's National AMBER Alert...

he Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) announces the availability of OJJDP News @ a Glance, May/June 2019. This issue’s top story and Message From the Administrator discuss the Department of Justice’s observance of National Missing Children’s Day.

Other features in this issue—

• Implementing the Juvenile Justice Reform Act
• OJJDP Holds Listening Session on Preventing and Responding to School Violence
• OJJDP Holds...

OJJDP has released the "AMBER Alert Field Guide for Law Enforcement Officers." Designed to help law enforcement officers improve their response to cases of missing or abducted children, the guide provides best practices from subject matter experts in AMBER Alert programs nationwide. Topics include establishing leads and leads management, search and recovery operations, screening and training volunteers, interacting with abduction victims' families...