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 & 2011
Nevada Child Seekers has assisted in 1,504 cases total
This includes:
1237 Runaway
172 Missing
38 Parental Abductions
35 Endangered Missing
22 At Risk
376 Males
1128 Females
523 Caucasian
442 Hispanic
343 African American
25 Asian
13 Filipino
115 Mixed
43 Other
Of these cases, Nevada Child Seekers has closed 917 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 2011, your support allowed us to provide:
- 6,121 Child ID Packets
- Shout Out Loud, abduction prevention education for 3,267 K-2nd grade students
- NetSmartz™ Internet Safety for over 8,900 students and over 651 parents and school administrators
- radKids™ Personal Empowerment Program for approximately 1,800 students
- Case Management and Search Assistance for 252 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.