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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. Goals include efforts to increase the recovery rate of abducted children, strengthen child alert systems in the nation's northern and southern borders and Tribal communities to protect children, increase community understanding of issues related to child abuse and exploitation; and implementation of the Ashlynne Mike AMBER Alert in Indian Country Act of 2018. This program strives to enhance public participation in recovery efforts and build the capacity and skills of law enforcement and child protection professionals to identify, interdict, and recover victims of child abductions both domestically and across national borders.
Provider Organization
National Criminal Justice Training Center (NCJTC) at Fox Valley Technical College (FVTC)
This project designs, develops, and delivers services including virtual and onsite training programs; AMBER Alert Coordinators and Clearinghouse Managers meetings; self-paced e-learning courses; technical assistance events; regional meetings (encompassing multiple states); state-Tribal AMBER plan implementation meetings in Indian Country; webinars; international/border meetings; family survivor roundtable meetings; CART certification assessments; CART train-the-trainer programs; newsletters and publications; Tribal community outreach events; and a National AMBER Alert and AMBER Alert in Indian Country Symposium.
Audience
Aftercare/Parole/Re-entry
Child Protection and Advocacy Professionals
Child Welfare Personnel
Community Members
Court Personnel
Detention/Corrections Staff
Faith-Based Organizations
Families
Juvenile Justice Specialists
Law Enforcement
Mental Health Professionals
Nonprofit Organizations
Probation Officers
Prosecutors
School Personnel
Social Services
State Advisory Groups
Transportation
Tribal Community
Volunteers
Youth
Youth Services Professionals
Eligibility
Law enforcement agencies, child protection professionals, broadcasters, AMBER Alert coordinators, and others concerned with child abduction and victimization. Contact the TTA project for eligibility information.
This project produces TTA programs conducting onsite, and through eLearning initiatives. Training includes over 25 classroom programs, eight eLearning courses, and the ability to tailor TTA to meet the needs of the requesting agency. Special populations include Tribal, at-risk youth, and border communities. This project also produces several publications on missing and endangered children.
Janell Rasmussen
Program Administrator [email protected]
877–712–6237
Ensuring Public Safety
Preventing Child Abuse, Neglect, and Victimization
