• Internet Crimes Against Children This document from the Office of Victims of Crimes explores the nature of Internet crime and the complex challenges it poses for law enforcement personnel and victim service providers as they work to protect children.
• Indicators of School Crime and Safety: 2001 A joint effort by the Bureau of Justice Statistics and National Center for Education Statistics, the report examines crime occurring in school as well as on the way to and from school. The report provides the most current detailed statistical information to inform the Nation on the nature of crime in schools.
• National Estimates of Missing Children: An Overview This Bulletin summarizes findings from the Second National Incidence Studies of Missing, Abducted, Runaway, and Thrownaway Children NISMART-2 Report presenting statistical profiles of missing children including demographic characteristics and the circumstances of their disappearance.
• When Your Child Is Missing: A Family Survival Guide Provides parents with the most current information on, and helpful insights into, what families should do when a child is missing.

• AMECO The Assoication of Missing and Exploited Children's Organizations AMECO is an organization of member agencies in the United States and Canada who provide services to families with missing and exploited children. Member organizations include:
  
  • A Child is Missing
  • The Center for Hope
  • Child Quest International
  • Heidi Search Center
  • Laura Recovery Center
  • Molly Bish Foundation
  • Navada Child Seekers
  • The Polly Klaas Foundation
• Amber Alert Informational brochure describing the America's Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response (AMBER) Alert Plan and how to start a plan in your area.
• National Sex Offenders Registry The FBI's Crimes Against Children Unit coordinates the development and implementation of the National Sex Offenders Registry. Find the Sex Offender web site in your state.
• www.nsopr.gov National Sex Offender Public Registry (NSOPR) Web site provides real-time access to public sex offender data nationwide allowing parents and concerned citizens to search existing public state and territory sex offender registries with a single Internet search.
• Stopping cyberbullies Many kids are feeling the sting of online teasing. Bullying has moved beyond the playground and cafeteria. It is now in cyberspace, the world of computer networks, and the problem is growing.
• www.theyaremissed.org/ncma Serves as a national repository of information accessible to the general public, advocacy groups, and law enforcement, medical examiners and coroners
• www.missingkids.org National Center for Missing & Exploited Children provides services nationwide for families and professionals in the prevention of abducted, endangered, and sexually exploited children.
• www.teamhope.org/ The mission of Team H.O.P.E. is to assist families with missing children by offering counsel, resources, empowerment and emotional support from a trained volunteer, who has had or still has a missing child.

• Guidelines for Programs to Reduce Child Victimization: A Resource for Communities When Choosing a Program to Teach Personal Safety to Children These guidelines detail the recommendations for National Center for Missing and Exploited Children's (NCMEC) Education Standards Task Force for communities when choosing programs to teach personal safety to children.
• Online Victimization: A Report on the Nation's Youth This national survey of 1501 youth aged 10-17 documented their use of the Internet and their experiences while online including unwanted exposure to sexual solicitation, sexual material and harassment.
• Children As Victims: 1999 National Report Series The National Report brings together statistics from a variety of sources on a wide array of topics, presenting the information in clear, non technical text enhanced by more than 350 easy-to-read tables, graphs, and maps.
• Keeping Your Kids Drug-Free: A How-To Guide for Parents and Caregivers This brochure discusses challenges parents face, how parents can influence their kids, opportunities for starting a discussion and what parents can do and say to keep their children drug-free. It also provides a list of resources for parents and ways for them to get involved in community activities.
• A Safety Net for the Internet: Protecting Our Children, Daniel Armagh  
• What About Me? - A siblings account (pdf) &
  What About Me? - A siblings account (flash video) A guide for the sisters and brothers of an abducted child.

• Child Safety on the Information Highway Safety tips for families who elementary school aged children use computer online services.
• A Parent's Guide to Internet Safety The same advances in computer and telecommunication technology that allow our children to reach out to new sources of knowledge and cultural experiences are also leaving them vulnerable to exploitation and harm by computer-sex offenders. This pamphlet will help you to begin to understand the complexities of on-line child exploitation.
• Cybersafe Kids: A Parents Guide Just as you wouldn't send children near a busy road without some safety rules, you shouldn't send them onto the information superhighway without rules of the road. The National Crime Prevention Council.
• National Center for Missing Adults Serves as a national repository of information accessible to the general public, advocacy groups, and law enforcement, medical examiners and coroners

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Last updated: July 22, 2005 radkids@radkids.org