When I was in 3rd grade my family went on a road trip to Nashville. We left Kansas and did the Griswold thing -- being that we stopped at every major historical attraction and campsite between Hutch and Nashville. It was a lot of fun.
However, it was this trip that left my first major impression of a missing children's report. We were at a wooded camp site and my mom and I had gone into to the wash room of the camp site. On the wall I saw a picture of a girl, who was in her early teens, and she had been abducted from the neighboring area. A lot of thoughts ran through my mind when I looked at that poster girl's face -- How could something like that happen to a big kid ... If she can disappear that means I could too ... Her hair looks just like mine... It's a visual that has stuck with me.
There are a lot of resources available in helping and locating missing and exploited children. It's important for libraries to make sure their patrons are aware of these resources...we are the community meeting place and for us to find missing children we will have to work together. Listed below are just a few of the sites available.
Oklahoma's Missing Children
Code Amber
Code Amber Sex Offender Registry List
National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
NetSmartz
YMCA National Safe Place
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