Kidnapping

OJJDP Releases New Guide for Families of Missing Children

What About Me? Finding your path forward forward when your brother or sister is missing, Second Edition - Card

In observance of National AMBER Alert Awareness Day, OJJDP has released the second edition of "What About Me? Finding Your Path Forward When Your Brother or Sister is Missing." Written by family members who have experienced the abduction of a brother or sister, the guide serves as a resource for siblings of missing children and their parents or caretakers.

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OJJDP Observes AMBER Alert Awareness Day

January 13 is National AMBER Alert Awareness Day.

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

Date Published

2015

Publication Type

Publication

Agencies

OJJDP-Sponsored

AMBER Alert Best Practices for Public Information Officers (PIOs)

Date Published

2020

Publication Type

Best Practice/State-of-the-Art Review

Agencies

OJJDP-Sponsored

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

February 4, 2025, 9:00 am – 6:00 pm Eastern

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Location

Dallas, TX

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

The AMBER Advocate, Issue 4 2024

Date Published

October 2024

Publication Type

Publication

Agencies

OJJDP-Sponsored

Child Abduction Response Team (CART) Certification Guide: A Guide for Agencies and CART Programs Pursuing Certification

Date Published

September 2024

Publication Type

Training (Aid/Material)

Agencies

OJJDP-Sponsored

Child Abduction Response Team (CART) Implementation Guide: A Guide to CART Program Components and Implementation

Date Published

September 2024

Publication Type

Instructional Material

Agencies

OJJDP-Sponsored

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

Date Published

January 2025

Agencies

OJJDP

Child Abduction Response Team Training

Event Dates

September 24, 2024, 8:00 am – September 26, 2024, 5:00 pm Eastern

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Location

Starkville, MS

Event Type

Classroom

Child Abduction Response Team Training

Event Dates

September 16, 2024, 8:00 am – September 18, 2024, 5:00 pm Eastern

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Location

Oakwood Village, OH

Event Type

Classroom

2023 AMBER Alert Report: Analysis of AMBER Alert Cases in 2023

Date Published

May 2024

Publication Type

Report (Annual/Periodic)

Agencies

OJJDP-Sponsored

The AMBER Advocate, Issue 3 2024

Date Published

July 2024

Agencies

OJJDP-Sponsored

Unidentified Human Remains

Date Published

January 2024

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OJJDP-Sponsored

OJJDP Addresses Alarming Rates of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons

President Biden proclaimed May 5 as Missing or Murdered Indigenous Persons Awareness Day, to honor these missing and murdered individuals and highlight the Department’s commitment to work with Tribal Nations to end the violence and inequities that drive this crisis.