Make Noise for Missing and Exploited Children

MAKE NOISE

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FOR MISSING AND EXPLOITED CHILDREN

Join us in raising your voice to bring home missing children
and prevent other children from harm

1. TALK to your kids about safety.

The radKIDS^® Personal Empowerment Safety Education Program teaches kids:

No one has the right to hurt me because I am special!

I don't have the right to hurt anyone else unless they hurt me and then I stop them!

If anyone tries to hurt me, trick me, or make me feel bad inside, it's not my fault - so I can tell!

The Jacob Wetterling Resource Center offers suggestions to parents for talking to children about safety without scaring them.

The Polly Klaas® Foundation's Child Safety Kit is a booklet that tells parents how to build their children's confidence by teaching them how to recognize and respond to dangerous situations.

The Canadian Centre for Child Protection's Kids in the Know program is an interactive safety education program for increasing the personal safety of children and reducing their risk of sexual exploitation.

Child Find Alberta offers free educational safety presentations to children, parents, and communities.

The Take25 program provides conversation starters for parents and educators to discuss safety in a positive way.

2a. If you have been abused, exploited, or hurt in some way, TELL someone you trust. You may also want to find a local domestic violence group, contact child or adult protective services, or call your local police. Do not stop "making noise" until you find someone that will help you. You have the right to be safe.

2b. If you see or hear something suspicious or something that doesn't seem right, TELL someone. Missing children are often found because somebody decided to speak up.

3. SHARE messages about missing children to get everyone in your network involved in the issue.

For directories of missing children visit Canadian Centre for Child Protection, Child Find Canada, Child Find of America, Child Quest International, Heidi Search Center, Laura Recovery Center, Missing Children's Network, Missing Children Society of Canada, Nevada Child Seekers, Operation Lookout, and the Polly Klaas Foundation.

To see how parents of missing children are affected and to learn how the Missing Children's Network supports these families, watch the short documentary, "The Living Victims".

Become a Polly Klaas® Foundation eVolunteer: distribute missing child posters in your community or make your own little web page about child safety.

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