Runaway (8)

1. Focus Adolescent Services: Runaways and Missing Children: Resources
Focus Adolescent Services's site on teenage problems includes a listing of helpful online runaway resources.

2. National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
Using state-of-the-art technology, this U.S. search network works with law enforcement agencies and other professionals to find runaways and other missing children. NCMEC also provides educational resources and a searchable database of missing children.

3. National Runaway Switchboard
Are you having problems at home? Are you thinking about running away? Have you already run away and need to find a place to stay, food, clothing, legal or medical assistance? Our service for runaway youth include finding a nearby shelter, food or medical services for a youth on the run, connecting them to social service or protection agencies at their request, or taking a message for a parent or guardian for us to relay. Being a teenager isn't easy that's why we are here 24 hours a day. We're confidential and free. We also offer information and referrals to youth and families who are in need of help because they are considering running away, or they fear someone close to them is.

4. Runaway Lives: Personal Stories and Reflections by Runaways and Their Families
Forum for runaways and their family members to share their experiences through writings or images.

5. Understanding and Preventing Teenage Runaways
Crisis Counseling. Understanding And Preventing Teenage Runaway.

6. Volunteer Emergency Families for Children
VEFC trains and supports volunteers who provide short-term shelter care and mentoring to abused, neglected, runaway, homeless and at-risk children and youth in Virginia. History, goals, principles, and events of the organization.

7. Welcome to COVENANT HOUSE
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.

8. When Your Child is Missing: A Family Survival Guide
This Guide was written in 1998 by parents and family members who experienced the disappearance of a child. It provides parents the most current information on, and helpful insights into, what families should do when a child is missing. It contains their combined advice concerning what to expect when a child is missing, what needs to be done, and where to go for help. It explains the role that various agencies and organizations play in the search for a missing child and discusses some of the important issues that need to be considered.

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