Kidnapping

The AMBER Advocate Issue 3, 2025

NCJ Number

310651

Date Published

July 2025

Agencies

OJJDP-Sponsored

Publication Type

Newsletter

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Public Information Officers and Tribal Law Enforcement Agencies

Event Dates

August 14, 2025, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Eastern

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Location

Online

Event Type

Webinar

Child Abduction Tabletop Exercise in Indian Country

Event Dates

July 28, 2025, 12:30 pm – 4:30 pm Eastern

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Location

Pauma Valley, CA

Event Type

Classroom

Behavioral Analysis - Criminal Profiling in Non-Familial Child Abduction Investigations

Event Dates

July 23, 2025, 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm Eastern

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Location

Online

Event Type

Webinar

A Conversational Approach to Interrogation of Child Abduction Suspects: Focusing on Cases Involving Sexual Assault and Homicide

Event Dates

June 18, 2025, 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm Eastern

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Location

Online

Event Type

Webinar

Initial Response Strategies and Tactics When Responding to Missing Children Incidents

Event Dates

July 18, 2025, 8:00 am – 5:00 pm Eastern

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Location

Chantilly, VA

Event Type

Webinar

911 Telecommunicators and Missing and Abducted Children

Event Dates

August 11, 2025, 9:00 am – 6:00 pm Eastern

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Location

Tulsa, OK

Event Type

Classroom

911 Telecommunicators and Missing and Abducted Children

Event Dates

June 24, 2025, 9:00 am – 6:00 pm Eastern

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Location

Charenton, LA

Event Type

Classroom

Investigative Strategies for Child Abduction Cases

Event Dates

June 24, 2025, 8:00 am – 5:00 pm Eastern

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Location

Dunbar, WV and Online

Dunbar, WV

Event Type

Classroom

911 Telecommunicators and Missing and Abducted Children

Event Dates

June 3, 2025, 9:00 am – 6:00 pm Eastern

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Location

Crossville, TN

Event Type

Classroom

911 Telecommunicators and Missing and Abducted Children

Event Dates

April 24, 2025, 9:00 am – 6:00 pm Eastern

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Location

Rancho Cordova, CA

Event Type

Classroom

Investigative Strategies for Child Abduction Cases

Event Dates

April 22, 2025, 8:00 am – April 23, 2025, 5:00 pm Eastern

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Location

Online

Event Type

Webinar

Initial Response Strategies and Tactics When Responding to Missing Children Incidents

Event Dates

June 12, 2025, 8:00 am – 5:00 pm Eastern

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Location

Online

Event Type

Webinar

Keeping Hope Alive: The AMBER Alert Program

January 2025

This OJJDP video has been updated for 2025 and highlights the history and groundbreaking moments that established and propelled the AMBER Alert program that is used across the nation to safely recover missing and abducted children.

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Protecting At-Risk Tribal Youth: First Response Pocket Guide

NCJ Number

309979

Date Published

2015

Agencies

OJJDP-Sponsored

Publication Type

Publication

PDF

AMBER Alert Best Practices for Public Information Officers (PIOs)

NCJ Number

309978

Date Published

2020

Agencies

OJJDP-Sponsored

Publication Type

Best Practice/State-of-the-Art Review

PDF

Initial Response Strategies and Tactics When Responding to Missing Children Incidents

Event Dates

April 8, 2025, 9:00 am – 6:00 pm Eastern

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Location

Salem, VA

Event Type

Classroom

Initial Response Strategies and Tactics When Responding to Missing Children Incidents

Event Dates

January 29, 2025, 8:00 am – 5:00 pm Eastern

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Location

Morris Plains, NJ

Event Type

Classroom

What About Me? Finding Your Path Forward When Your Brother or Sister is Missing (Second Edition)

NCJ Number

308968

Date Published

January 2025

Agencies

OJJDP

PDF

Unidentified Human Remains

NCJ Number

309341

Date Published

January 2024

Agencies

OJJDP-Sponsored

PDF

When Your Child Is Missing: A Family Survival Guide, Fifth Edition

NCJ Number

305831

Date Published

May 2023

Agencies

OJJDP-Sponsored

Publication Type

Reference Material

PDF

Fourth National Incidence Studies of Missing, Abducted, Runaway and Thrownaway Children (NISMART‐4) Law Enforcement Survey – Stereotypical Kidnapping (LES-SK) Technical Report

NCJ Number

304794

Date Published

February 2022

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

PDF

Family Resource Guide on International Parental Kidnapping

NCJ Number

190448

Date Published

February 2002

Agencies

OJJDP, OJJDP-Sponsored

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

English (PDF), 3.19 MB | Spanish (PDF), 1.24 MB

NISMART-2 Household Survey: Public Data User's Guide

NCJ Number

211387

Date Published

2005

Agencies

OJJDP-Sponsored

Publication Type

Survey

PDF

Personal Safety for Children: A Guide for Parents

NCJ Number

196166

Date Published

1998

Agencies

OJJDP, OJJDP-Sponsored

Publication Type

Instructional Material

English (PDF), 680 KB | Spanish (PDF), 678 KB | English (HTML), 2.78 KB | Spanish (HTML), 3.20 KB

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