About Child Find of America

- CHILD FIND'S MISSION -

Child Find of America, Inc. is a national not-for-profit organization that works to prevent and resolve all cases of missing, abducted and runaway children.

Each year Child Find of America receives between 15,000 - 20,000 calls for help from searching parents, family members, law enforcement, other agencies, children and educators.

On any given day we have over 200 active location cases and more than 300 open family abduction cases.

Each year our efforts positively impact thousands of children and directly bring more than 400 children to a safe and legal environment.

- CHILD FIND'S HISTORY -

Child Find was founded in 1980 by the mother of a missing child in upstate New York, when there was limited law enforcement response to missing children and no laws about parental/family abduction. Little was understood about the devastation child abduction has on the child.

Child Find has played a significant role in the creation of laws that now make all forms of child abduction a crime; in the establishment of a national clearinghouse to assist law enforcement in their investigations, in the establishment of May 25th as National Missing Children's Day and in the increased media attention given to missing children cases.

Over the years Child Find has greatly expanded its scope of services, providing prevention, education, mediation, conflict resolution, investigation, information and referral and support services to families in crisis here in America and internationally in more than a dozen countries. Child Find prides itself as being a national expert in the prevention and resolution of parental/family abduction.

We are also proud that our sound fiscal management and effective programming has earned high praise from charity watch groups, the media, law enforcement and social service agencies. On average, each year Child Find spends 90 cents of every dollar donated directly on providing program services, and because of this outstanding efficiency, Child Find has consistently earned an A+ rating from the American Institute of Philanthropy.

In 2002, the White House recognized Child Find's dedication by inviting our Executive Director to speak at the first White House Conference on Missing and Exploited Children.