Searches for missing, kidnaped, runaway and parentally abducted children under 18 years of age. Investigations are performed by in-house location staff employing databases and tracking tech coordinated with a network of professional partners.

Helps law enforcement agencies handling cases of children, college students or vulnerable adults missing from New York State or suspected of being in the state.

Provides law enforcement services to individuals in Jefferson County. Services include a K-9 Patrol, an Emergency Response Team, School Resource Officers, and a Recreation and Vessel Enforcement Unit.

Brings missing children home through the use of in-house professional staff, national dissemination of photos of missing children to companies and corporations, the toll free number, counseling for searching parents, nationwide networking efforts with law enforcement, state clearinghouse personnel, social service agencies and missing children agencies.

Provides national efforts to locate and recover missing children and raises public awareness about ways to prevent child abduction, molestation, and sexual exploitation as well as offering child safety information and literature on various topics. Also provides advocacy, prevention programs, family support, and an on line location for reporting internet child pornography (the Cyber Tip Line).

Provides a nationwide identification and support program to aid in the safe and timely return of individuals affected with Alzheimer's disease who wander and become lost. Program also provides education for families, caregivers, emergency responders and law enforcement on preventative techniques and skills needed to approach and respond to individuals who have wandered.

* Offers a 24 hour Helpline that provides reliable information and support to people with memory loss, as well as, caregivers, health care professionals, and the public.* Offers free community education courses on Alzheimer's disease. * Provides social activities to encourage individuals with Alzheimer's disease to continue engaging in the activities they enjoy. * Offers care consultation that provides needs assessment, planning and problem solving, plan development and support.* Provides education regarding prevention of wandering.

* Offers Child Abduction Prevention and Support Services that provide assistance with: Locate missing children through active investigation. Registers and helps to locate missing children. Dissemination of photos of missing children/safety information. Prevent child abduction through education.* Offers the Parent Help helpline that provides services for mothers and fathers parenting apart and family conflict.

free publications on missing and exploited children maintains national hotline to exchange information that could lead to locating and recovering a missing child takes information about the location of a missing childTo report a missing child, call the toll-free number or go to http://www.missingkids.org

Offers safety materials for children and preventive counseling through A-WAY-OUT services. Also promotes awareness and prevention information about Child Find's safety program and services, and sponsors National Missing Children Day, May 25th. Also offers referral services when needed.

Offers child safety program training to prevent child abduction. Programs offered to private organizations, school curriculum, childrens workshops and assemblies, parent workshops, staff development, and child identification(includes fingerprinting).

Provides a toll free 24 hour hotline to report information on missing children which is immediately shared with law enforcement agencies. Also provides investigation assistance in finding missing children, coordinates Amber Alerts, distributes child safety information, and posts missing children's pictures in public areas.

Provides a rapid-response program that aids victims (and their families) who wander as a result of cognitive impairments, or other afflictions. The program combines technology and specially trained Sheriff’s Deputies to locate individuals who have wandered. Project Lifesaver clients wear a “watch-type” wristband transmitter (worn on the wrist, ankle or as a necklace), which emits a tracking signal. When a caregiver calls the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Office Project Lifesaver line to report that a client has wandered, a search team responds to the wanderer’s area and, while in route, activates the vehicles mobile locator tracking system. A hand-held unit is used to search for clients in areas inaccessible by vehicles. Call for detailed information.

Offers a free program which enables relatives or caregivers to register persons with special needs in the Police Department’s database. This information will be furnished to first responders and police officers responding to an emergency situation involving the registrant. Special Needs/Silver Alert program is designed for people with: Dementia (including Alzheimer’s Disease); Developmental Disabilities (including Autism Spectrum, Mental Retardation/Mental Impairment); Severe Mental Illness and Other cognitive disorders that may impair reasoning, resulting in a person wandering or being disoriented/lost. Registrants can also request to receive an identification bracelet by checking the box on the Special Needs/Silver Alert Registry form. The bracelet is free of charge and contains a distinctive I.D. number as well as a Suffolk County Police Department phone number which first responders can utilize to obtain information regarding that person. Call for additional information.

Helps find missing children through pre-registration program, through the national dissemination of photos of missing children to businesses and corporations, and through networking efforts with law enforcement, state clearinghouse personnel, social service agencies and missing children agencies.

Provides support for international humanitarian relief operations through local appeals for financial aid and gifts in-kind. Also provides tracing/location services for people separated from their relatives due to war, civil disturbance or natural disasters. Messages can be sent between POWs/refugees and their relatives on Long Island.

Services provided generally fall into three categories: investigative support services for law enforcement, assistance provided to left-behind family members, and community education programs. Also responsible for providing assistance in cases involving missing children, college students, and vulnerable adults. Specific services and responsibilities include: - 1-800-346-3543 Hotline (case intake and lead information received on this line) - Short and long term investigative assistance - Preparation and electronic distribution of DCJS Missing Child/College Student and Missing Adult Alerts statewide. LOCATER (Lost Child Alert Technology Resource), Xpedite, and NY Alert allow for repaid distribution of photographic images and biographical information within minutes - Placement of missing child and vulnerable adult photographs and biographical information on the DCJS and National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) web sites - Development and distribution of printed missing child posters statewide - Co-coordination of statewide implementation and operation of the NYS AMBER Alert Program, which provides law enforcement agencies with a mechanism for rapid and widespread public dissemination of information in the event of a child abduction - Administration of the statewide missing/unidentified person repository (mandated "flagging" missing child birth and educational records is facilitated through the use of this data) - Analysis, transcription, and entry of dental and anatomical information into DCJS and National Crime Information Center (NCIC) files on behalf of law enforcement agencies and medical examiners - Collaboration with NCMEC and other state clearinghouses - Presentation of investigative training programs for law enforcement officers, along with development and dissemination of investigative procedures and guides - Furthering investigative and educational efforts instituted pursuant to the US Department of Justice funded NYS Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force Program - Development and distribution of child safety literature - Ongoing community outreach, including presentations about child and Internet safety to various groups and organizations

Works to reconnect families who have been separated due to natural disaster, armed conflict, migration or other humanitarian crises. Provides tracing services for those who do not know the location of their families, Red Cross Messages for those who do not have means to communicate with their families, certificates of detention, Natural Disaster Inquiries, Health and Welfare inquiries, and travel documents. Caseworkers help families locate missing relatives by working with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Red Cross, and Red Crescent organizations in nearly every country around the world.

Reconnects families separated from relatives overseas, due to disaster or conflicts. Also assists families with members who are survivors of the Holocaust in locating or obtaining information on friends or families they lost contact with at the time of the war.

Recovers parentally abducted children and helps to resolve parental custodial disputes through the use of: professional family mediators the toll free number for in-flight and contemplating parents preventative counseling for parents contemplating abduction of their children and referrals to additional agencies and services.

Operates a national 24-hour toll-free hotline, to intake reports of missing and sexually exploited children (ages 17 and under) and receive leads about ongoing cases. Also serves as the national resource center and information clearinghouse for missing and exploited children. Also operates the CyberTipline, that the public and electronic service providers may use to report Internet-related child sexual exploitation.

Helps to locate missing children and prevent child abduction through investigation, photo distribution, mediation, public education/information and TOLL FREE HOTLINES.

* Provides assistance to law enforcement agencies handling cases involving children, college students and vulnerable adults who have gone missing. * Provides investigative support services to local, state and national law enforcement. * Provides assistance to left-behind family members. * Provides community education programs.

Offers the national wanderer's identification and rescue program. Provides registering and identifying a person with Alzheimer's disease as a person as a person who should be treated with special care, identifying the caregiver as a person who is responsible for caring for another, and dementia-specific training for emergency response personnel.

Assists in location of missing childrenHelps resolve parental conflictsProvides free educational materials to the publicProvides trainings and resources to allied professionalsAll services are conveniently delivered via telephone and emailAll services to families are free