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• - This 24-hour hotline service for U.S. parents and youth offers crisis intervention, message service, educational information, referrals, and runaway searches.
  
• - Site listing organizations to search for a missing child.
  
• - In this 1999 speech, Sec. of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala emphasizes the importance of the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Focus Adolescent Services's site on teenage problems includes a listing of helpful online runaway resources.
  
• - Written by others who have experienced the trauma of a missing child, this excellent site offers a wealth of practical information and advice, as well as words of hope and encouragement, to parents of missing children.
  
• - Parents of missing children share their experiences through this site, which also offers helpful hotlines and links.
  
• - Site designed to help locate missing children in India.
  
• - Nonprofit organization devoted to helping runaway and homeless youth find the resources needed. Contains events and newsletter.
  
• - This "choose-your-own-adventure" style hypertext novel with 20 different endings was created 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.
  
• - Listing of runaway related links maintained by a parent for other parents from the site "Teens in Trouble: A Survival Page for Parents".
  
• - Forum for runaways and their family members to share their experiences through writings or images.
  
• - Practical advice for parents and professionals including the motivations of teenage runaways, problems that increase the risk, warning signs, effective communication and steps to reduce the risk.
  
• - Maintains a database of missing Canadian children and offers educational information related to runaways and abducted children.
  
• - Homesite of a five year study and services funded by the National Institute of Mental Health focusing on homeless youth in Los Angeles, USA and Melbourne, Australia.
  
• - Yahoo! directory list of commercial agencies which offer missing person location services.
  
• - 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 hotlin
  
• - Contains files of missing child reports, news, resources for families and details of the investigative team.
  
• - Recipient of national (U.S.) awards and recognition, StandUp For Kids is an all volunteer organization working on the streets to help runaway and homeless youth.
  
• - Greyhound Lines, in conjunction with the National Runaway Switchboard, provides free one way transportation for runaway children returning home.
  
• - The site provides bibliographies of publications related to the runaway experience in various categories such as "international works", "bibliographies and resource books", "shelters, law enforcement and psychology", and &quo
  
• - This nonprofit hotline service provides crisis intervention and telephone counseling, information and referrals for callers seeking food, shelter and transportation home, and confidential conference calls between runaways and their families.
  
  

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