Mission
- Defining the problem of unreported missing children and adults: the kids off the grid.
- Supporting the efforts of families in crisis, law enforcement and affiliated agencies to locate and provide recovery information that saves lives.
- To educate society about the mis-perceptions of mental illness, drug addiction, and homelessness and their ripple effects. Reducing the stigma about these conditions which create opportunities for people to be lost and for predators to exploit them without anyone noticing.
- Helping families with tools that allows them to find their missing relatives or friends. It also trains and provides informational material to law enforcement and other agencies which allows these individuals and agencies to deal with the families of Unreported missing persons as well as finding ways to get them officially listed.
- Researching the scale and solutions for this social problem by gathering and analyzing information using "The Missing Link Registry".
- Providing social awareness campaigns such as "The Perception Project".
- Working with and supporting other organizations such as Project EDAN, the Doe Network, and Lets Bring Them Home.
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