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Nancy McBride
National Safety Director, National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
www.missingkids.com  
1-800-THE-LOST

The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children’s (NCMEC) mission is to help prevent child abduction and sexual exploitation; help find missing children; and assist victims of child abduction and sexual exploitation, their families, and the professionals who serve them.

NCMEC was established in 1984 as a private, nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization to provide services nationwide for families and professionals in the prevention of abducted, endangered, and sexually exploited children. Pursuant to its mission and its congressional mandates (see 42 U.S.C. §§ 5771 et seq.; 42 U.S.C. § 11606; 22 C.F.R. § 94.6),

The NCMEC serves as a clearinghouse of information about missing and exploited children, operates a CyberTipline that the public may use to report Internet-related child sexual exploitation, provides technical assistance to individuals and law-enforcement agencies in the prevention, investigation, prosecution, and treatment of cases involving missing and exploited children, assists the U.S. Department of State in certain cases of international child abduction in accordance with the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, offers training programs to law-enforcement and social-service professionals, distributes photographs and descriptions of missing children worldwide, coordinates child-protection efforts with the private sector, networks with nonprofit service providers and state clearinghouses about missing-persons cases and provides information about effective state legislation to help ensure the protection of children.

How can parents contact NCMEC and what are some other resources they can use?

In this video series, Nancy McBride, the National Safety Director for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children answers questions regarding personal child safety on topics ranging from the Internet, School safety, Holiday safety, and information about child identification. The Q&A provides helpful tips and tools for parents and guardians to help keep their children safer.

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Host: How can parents contact NCMEC and what are some other resources they can use?

Nancy McBride: Well, we have talked a lot about child safety today and I want to give you the parents or guardians, the more information about how you can download child safety tips, ways you can talk to your kids. The National Center s website is www.

missingkids.

com. We also have resources for internet safety at NetSmart, netsmartz.

org, resources for kids and teens and parents and guardians, interactive activities where they can learn more about staying safer online and in the real world and where parents and guardians can get the tools they need to discuss these issues with their kids.

We have got a new resource at the National Center called NetSmartz411.

org and this is a place where parents and guardians or people in the community can ask questions to our experts and get the answers to those questions. So, if there is an issue that you have been pondering about online safety or things your kids can do on the internet, you can pose that question and get a response to it and this is great for parents or guardians who are looking for the information and may not have been able to find it somewhere else. There is one other website, I want to mention, it is called take25.

org and this is a website with tips and information for parents and guardians to take 25 minutes or so to really sit down with their kids, talk about child safety, it gives you ideas on how to do that, ways you can practice safety skills with your kids.

So, there is a wealth of information at the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. It is all available free of charge and we really encourage you to visit these websites, take a look, find out what works for you and then take the time to really sit down with your kids and go over this important information.

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