ABOUT US
Nevada Child Seekers, a registered nonprofit organization, created in 1985, and incorporated in 1996. We are the only nonprofit, missing children’s organization in Nevada and we do not charge for our services. We diligently work to keep parents closely involved in their cases and are available to assist the proper authorities. Trained, police-screened volunteers carry out many of our education programs enabling us to be efficient and effective. For more information visit Programs and Services
The following information comes comes from cases taken between 2007 & 2010
Nevada Child Seekers has assisted in 1,251 cases total
This includes:
1022 Runaway
151 Missing
28 Parental Abductions
34 Endangered Missing
339 Males
912 Females
431 Caucasian
359 Hispanic
287 African American
19 Asian
11 Filipino
115 Mixed
29 Other
Of these cases, Nevada Child Seekers has closed 702 cases by locating the child. In addition, our recovery rate is approximately 78%
In Nevada, there are approximately 7,000 children reported missing each year according to the Nevada Missing Children’s Clearinghouse, Nevada Office of the Attorney General. These alarming statistics come from the National Crime Information Center, a law enforcement database. It further indicates that over 200 of the children are considered to be “endangered” by law enforcement and over 100 are missing involuntarily.
You have the power to help us in achieving our mission to advocate for and engage in prevention, identification and location efforts on behalf of missing and exploited children. Your support enables us to help families in the search for their missing children and to provide abduction and exploitation preventioneducation for children and families.
In 2010, your support allowed us to provide:
- 5,800 Child ID Packets
- Shout Out Loud, abduction prevention education for 2,423 K-2nd grade students
- NetSmartz™ Internet Safety for over 6,030 students and over 460 parents and school administrators
- radKids™ Personal Empowerment Program for approximately 1,884 students
- Case Management and Search Assistance for 351 missing children
In addition to giving, we hope you will sign-up (top of page) for our quarterly newsletter which features current missing children. By subscribing and viewing these children, you could be the one to provide a lead resulting in the safe return of a missing child. In addition we will let you know about special events and other opportunities to help accomplish our mission.