Missing children

Missing and Exploited Children Training and Technical Assistance Program (MECTTA)

This project provides assistance to prosecutors, state and local law enforcement, and other child-serving professionals to strengthen multidisciplinary team responses to missing and exploited children's issues.

National Center for Missing & Exploited Children

The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children® provides virtual learning, in-person training, case support, publications, community engagement, and prevention education programs.

The AMBER Advocate, Issue 3 2020

Date Published

October 2020

Publication Type

Program/Project Description

Agencies

OJJDP-Sponsored

Safety Pledge Webinar: Keep Kids Safer Online

Event Dates

September 29, 2020, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Eastern

Location

Online

Event Type

Webinar

OJJDP FY 2020 Missing and Exploited Children Training and Technical Assistance Program

2020-MC-FX-K001

Open

Funding First Awarded

2020

$3,600,000

OJJDP FY 2020 National AMBER Alert Training and Technical Assistance Program

2020-MC-FX-K003

Open

Funding First Awarded

2020

$8,800,000

The AMBER Advocate, Fall 2017

Date Published

November 2017

Publication Type

Report (Technical Assistance), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description, News and Announcement

Agencies

OJJDP-Sponsored

The AMBER Advocate, Fall 2018

Date Published

November 2018

Publication Type

Publication, Program/Project Description, Newsletter, Case Study

Agencies

OJJDP-Sponsored

NISMART-2 Household Survey: Adult & Youth Follow-Up Questionnaire Matrix and Questionnaire Errata

Date Published

2005

Publication Type

Survey

Agencies

OJJDP-Sponsored

Family Resource Guide on International Parental Kidnapping

Date Published

February 2002

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

Agencies

OJJDP-Sponsored, OJJDP

Amber Alert: Bringing Abducted Children Home

Date Published

April 2005

Publication Type

Factsheet

Agencies

OJJDP

AMBER Alert in Indian Country 101 – Community Response

Event Dates

September 16, 2020, 2:00 pm – 3:15 pm Eastern

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Location

Online

Event Type

Webinar

New Issue of AMBER Advocate Newsletter Now Available

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

The training of Missouri officers on the law enforcement response to child sex trafficking.
The Massachusetts AMBER Alert leading to the safe recovery of an abducted girl.
Shelly Smitherman, Tennessee's AMBER Alert Coordinator.
AMBER Alert in Indian Country.

The U.S. Department of Justice and the National Center for Missing...