Missing Children/Runaways
National Runaway Switchboard - Volunteer organization which provides confidential help to runaways and their families, as well as information and educational services.
National Center for Missing and Exploited Kids - This non-profit U.S. agency employs state-of-the-art technology to locate missing children and teenagers.
Team Hope - provides one-on-one support to parents of missing children through a volunteer network of parents who have survived the experience. The website also offers a wealth of information on abduction, runaways, Internet enticement, etc.
The Open Directory: Family: Runaways
Runaway Lives - Personal stories about the runaway experience and discussion by runaways and their families.
Missing Children Sites
Cyberpage's Missing Children Page - Lists children missing and contact information
Information & Statistics
When Your Child Is Missing: A Family Survival Guide - Informative and sensitive site for parents written (with assistance from law enforcement and youth service professionals) by parents who have experienced the trauma of a missing child.
Covenant House: For Parents: Child Missing? - Steps to take if your child is discovered missing.
Helping Runaway and Homeless Youth Grow up Safe and Secure - Remarks by U.S Secretary of Health and Human Services, Donna Shalala at the National Network for Youth Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., February 8, 1999
Teen Runaways, PBS Newshour transcript, May 14, 1996 - Rod Minott of KCTS-Seattle reports on how Washington State deals with teenage runaways.
Hotlines
National Runaway Switchboard - phone 1-800-621-4003
Child Find of America, Inc. (New York)- phone 1-800-a-way-out
National Missing Children's Locate Center (Oregon)-phone 1-800-999-7846
For runaway hotlines in specific areas of the U.S., check the "Human Services" section of the local phone directory.
Travel & Communication Services
"Home Free" Bus Service - Greyhound Lines, in conjunction with the National Runaway Switchboard, will provide free one way transportation for runaway children returning home through its "Home Free" program.
Prevention & Intervention
Understanding and Preventing Teenage Runaways - advice a clinical psychologist.
The Runaway Game - "Choose-your-own-adventure" style hypertext novel with 20 different endings designed 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.
