Family abduction

The AMBER Advocate, Issue 3, 2022

Date Published

September 2022

Publication Type

Newsletter

Agencies

OJJDP-Sponsored

National Incidence Studies of Missing, Abducted, Runaway and Thrownaway Children (NISMART-4) Law Enforcement Survey – Family Abduction (LES-FA) Pilot Study Report

Date Published

February 2022

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Missing Children on the Autism Spectrum

Date Published

2021

Agencies

OJJDP-Sponsored

The AMBER Advocate Issue 1, 2021

Date Published

March 2021

Publication Type

Newsletter

Agencies

OJJDP-Sponsored

The AMBER Advocate, Issue 4 2020

Date Published

November 2020

Publication Type

Report (Technical Assistance), Report (Grant Sponsored), Report (Annual/Periodic), Program/Project Description

Agencies

OJJDP-Sponsored

National AMBER Alert Training and Technical Assistance Program

This project provides training and technical assistance (TTA) support to enhance the AMBER Alert Network and serves to increase and improve the law enforcement response to missing, endangered, and abducted children.

Webinar To Discuss Reporting Missing Foster Children

On December 19, 2019, from 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. ET, OJJDP will present "Reporting Children Missing from Care to NCMEC: Training #4." This webinar will explore the Preventing Sex Trafficking and Strengthening Families Act which requires social service agencies to immediately report missing foster care children to law enforcement and the OJJDP-supported National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC). The webinar will...

New Issue of AMBER Advocate Newsletter Now Available

The AMBER Advocate Issue 3 2019 — The AMBER Advocate

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...

Redesigned AMBER Alert Website Now Features Indian Country Resources

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...