Knowledge: runaways
See Also:
- health → public health and safety → emergency services → search and rescue → organizations
- shopping → children → safety products and services → child registration and identification
- society → people → generations and age groups → youth → streetkids
- society → people → lost or missing
Links
- National Runaway Switchboard
http://www.nrscrisisline.org/ - This 24-hour hotline service for U.S. parents and youth offers crisis intervention, message service, educational information, referrals, and runaway searches.
- Missing Indian Kids
http://www.missingindiankids.com/missing/ - Site designed to help locate missing children in India.
- Teens in Trouble: Runaways
http://www.lv.psu.edu/jkl1/teens/runaways.html - Listing of runaway related links maintained by a parent for other parents from the site "Teens in Trouble: A Survival Page for Parents".
- Child CyberSEARCH Canada
http://www.childcybersearch.org - Maintains a database of missing Canadian children and offers educational information related to runaways and abducted children.
- Understanding and Preventing Teenage Runaways
http://www.education-options.com/articles/RunawayPrevention.htm - Practical advice for parents and professionals including the motivations of teenage runaways, problems that increase the risk, warning signs, effective communication and steps to reduce the risk.
- Runaway Lives: Personal Stories and Reflections by Runaways and Their Families
http://www.lv.psu.edu/jkl1/runawaylives - Forum for runaways and their family members to share their experiences through writings or images.
- StandUp For Kids On-Line
http://www.standupforkids.org/ - Recipient of national (U.S.) awards and recognition, StandUp For Kids is an all volunteer organization working on the streets to help runaway and homeless youth.
- 4thekids Missing Child Alert Services
http://fourthekids.org - Contains files of missing child reports, news, resources for families and details of the investigative team.
- Missing Son
http://hometown.aol.com/dustwaits/lovewaits.html - Parents of missing children share their experiences through this site, which also offers helpful hotlines and links.
- Precious Heart: Archives: Runaway Children
http://www.preciousheart.net/Main_Archives/Crisis-Grief_Archive/12--Runaway%20Children.htm - The site provides bibliographies of publications related to the runaway experience in various categories such as "international works", "bibliographies and resource books", "shelters, law enforcement and psychology", and "legal, congresses and legislation".
- When Your Child is Missing: A Family Survival Guide
http://ojjdp.ncjrs.org/pubs/childismissing/contents.html - Written by others who have experienced the trauma of a missing child, this excellent site offers a wealth of practical information and advice, as well as words of hope and encouragement, to parents of missing children.
- Helping Runaway and Homeless Youth Grow up Safe and Secure
http://www.hhs.gov/news/speeches/990208a.html - In this 1999 speech, Sec. of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala emphasizes the importance of the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act.
- The Runaway Game
http://therunawaygame.com/ - This "choose-your-own-adventure" style hypertext novel with 20 different endings was created to help teenagers understand the realities of life as a runaway. At the end of each chapter, readers make choices which lead to different scenarios.
- Missing Child Search
http://www.missingchildsearch.net - Site listing organizations to search for a missing child.
- Texas Runaway Hotline
http://www.tdprs.state.tx.us/runaway_hotline/ - This nonprofit hotline service provides crisis intervention and telephone counseling, information and referrals for callers seeking food, shelter and transportation home, and confidential conference calls between runaways and their families.
- Youth Link of America
http://www.youthlinkofamerica.com - Nonprofit organization devoted to helping runaway and homeless youth find the resources needed. Contains events and newsletter.
- Covenant House
http://www.covenanthouse.org/ - One of the largest privately-funded childcare agencies in the U.S., Covenant House provides services to homeless and runaway youth. The website addresses both youth considering running away and their parents, and offers information and confidential hotlines.
- Keep Your Children Safe
http://carlasrobertson.tripod.com/home/safe.html - Tips to prevent a teen from running away or being lured away, and what to do first if a child is missing.
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