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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.

Is it okay for children to go into homes in the neighborhood if they are invited in?

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: Is it okay for children to go into homes in the neighborhood, if they are invited in?

Nancy McBride: It is really not okay for children to go into homes in the neighborhood just because they are invited into those homes. That is where the parents or guardian really needs to step in or that trusted adult, and set the rules and guidelines just because somebody appears to be nice and wants the child to come into the home, does not mean that the child forgets all their safety rules and goes in.

Children should not approach homes that are not well lit and they should make certain they stay within a safe distance between themselves and the person in the house and that they are with other kids when they approach the home and if they are not that the parent or guardian is standing close by, so the person could see the parent or guardian and know that they are supervising their kids, they are keeping watch on their kids. So it is really up to us, the adults to set the rules for our kids about trick-or-treating and where they can go.

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