If your child comes up missing, kidnapped or is a runaway, besides contacting Cobra you can contact the following action agencies:

Abducted Children Information Center, 1470 Gene Street, Winter Park, FL 32789

Adam Walsh Resource Center, Inc., Parkview Bldg., Suite 306, 1876 N. University Drive, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33322.

Bureau of Missing Children, P.O. Box 2461, Tampa, FL 33601

Child Keyppers of Florida, Inc., P.O. Box 6292, Lake Worth, FL 33466

Child Safe Products, Inc., 449 North University Drive, Plantation, FL 33324

Childrens Rights Of Florida, Inc., P.O. Box 173, Pinellas Park, FL 33565

Dee Scofield Awareness Program, National Headquarters, 4418 Bay Court Avenue, Tampa, FL 33611

James DeGray Foundation for Missing Children, 2927 Ramada Drive, Apt. 431, Tampa, FL 33612

Missing Children Information Clearing House, Florida Department of Law Enforcement, P.O. Box 1489, Tallahassee, FL 32302

National Child Guard Data Center, 1100 North East 125th Street, North Miami, FL 33161

Missing Children Help Center, 410 Ware Boulevard, Suite 1102, Tampa, FL 33619

Kyle's Story, 205 North Chilton Avenue, La Grange, GA 30240

Find-Me, Inc., P.O. Box 1612, La Grange, GA 30241

Child Abuse Prevention Speaker's Bureau, Inc., 656 East 154th Street, Dolton, IL 60419

Illinois Chapter of the National Coalition for Children's Justice, 416 Rambler Lane, Streamwood, IL 60103

Illinois Foster Parent Association, 34 Michael Drive, P.O. Box 169, Woodson, IL 62695

Illinois State Enforcement Agency To Recover Children (I-SEARCH), Illinois Department of Law Enforcement, 200 Armory Building, Springfield, IL 62706

National Runaway Switchboard, 2210 North Halsted, Chicago, IL 60614

1 (800) 621-4000 HOTLINE

Director, Ohio Crime Prevention Association, 1560 Fishinger Road, Columbus, Ohio 43221

Mr. Al Gegnery, Administrator, Office of Juvenile Justice, 633 W. Indiana Avenue N.W., Washington, DC 20531

Director, U.S. Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI, Washington, DC 20535

Director, U.S. Department of Justice, Division of Juvenile Justice, Washington, DC 20531

http://cobramcn.blinks.net http://www.missingkids.com/precreate/OH.html www.amberfoundation.qpg.com/ http://hotyellow98.com/dbenna521/cobra.index.html www.childfind.ca/provergs.provnums.hte http://pollyklaas.org http://missingkids.com http://vca.org http://childsearch.org http://cnnw.net~nmcle http://childquest.org http://lostchildren.org http://heidisearchcenter.org http://operationlookout.org http://nmcdn.org http://www.childfirstofamerica.org http://rinekids.com http://ojjdp.ncjrs.org/missing http://www.800usakids.org http://communities.msn.com/missingkids

Taking excerpts from our Manual and Our Video HOLD BACK THE NIGHT, hopefully some of the following will also assist you if your child turns up missing:

1. Call the local police and report your child missing immediately. Have a notebook handy to keep records of phone calls and information. Ask the police for a case number on your child and who will be handling the investigation. Ask also that your child be immediately entered into the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) computers. And be sure to ask the officer for the NCIC number. It is important to remember that there is no waiting period required for an entry to be accepted in the Missing Persons file, this includes runaways. (National Child Search Assistance Act of 1990.) Ask police to conduct a search in the area your child was last seen in. Provide the police with a current photograph of your child, and fingerprints, if available. Never get rid of your last photograph as you may need it later. And if a runaway, check your child's closest friends. You would be surprised at the answers you might find there. 2. Conduct your own search in cooperation with the law enforcemtn agency involved. Have family, friends and neighbors to help. Be sure to have someone always by the phone at all times during this hectic search. Search your child's room, pockets of clothing and school locker for telephone numbers and addresses which may be useful in findout out whom they might have called or where they might have gone. Check your child's attendance record and those of their close friends at school. Call your telephone company to request copies of any calls made from your home since your last bill. Call any numbers that you do not recognize to see if they have heard from your child. Call all your child's friends and any phone numbers you find during your search of room and locker. Speak to both friends and their parents, if feasible. Re-contact these friends on a regular basis. Call out-of-town friends, relatives, etc., to see if they have heard from your child. Make up flyers; include a photo of the child, physical description, and the name and number of police agencies involved. Check out the places where your child "hangs out." Ask to post flyers there. Show flyers to people and ask if they have seen the child. 3. If your state has a clearinghouse for missing children, contact them to report your child as missing. 4. Contact missing children organizations and ask for their help. 5. Ask your local media to become involved by broadcasting your child's photo and information on the disappearance.

If nothing else helps, then please:

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