Find Your Missing Child Information

Agency Overview Every year more than 300,000 children run away from home or go missing. While numerous organizations are dedicated to helping parents of missing children, only FIND YOUR MISSING CHILD, INC. (FYMC) focuses on social media tools to help parents organize communities and networks to find their missing child. While no social media toolkit can guarantee the successful return of a missing child, effective deployment of social media resources significantly improves the odds of success by expanding awareness that a child is missing and engaging more people in the search. The Social Media Guide FYMC has created a social media guide that teaches parents how to use the community- building powers of Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and e-mail to help in the search for a missing child. The toolkit, designed for parents with limited skills as well as sophisticated social media users, coaches and provides parents constructive ways to actively participate in the search for their missing child. Recommended by law enforcement and community agencies, the toolkit can: 1) Uncover and unleash resources within the parents’ and caregivers’ social network 2) Create leads for the police 3) Provide parents with the solace and comfort that comes from knowing they are actively participating in the search and effort to bring their child home. The social media toolkit helps build communities by harnessing the parents’ and caregivers’ extended social networks.