Take steps toward implementing a successful CART by bringing together a team of experts whose knowledge, skills, and abilities will be beneficial in a child abduction case. Join us to learn how to develop a multidisciplinary CART for responding to endangered, missing, or abducted children. Hear about the impact a child abduction has on the family and learn the fundamentals of developing an effective responsive CART team. Examine incident command considerations, search and canvassing operations, CART activation, and resources to improve the response, investigation, search, and canvass activities associated with missing children investigations.
Consider the scope and scale of the problem of missing and abducted children including CART structure, function and command considerations, investigative considerations, canvass operations, search operations, volunteer management, digital forensics, logistics, recovery, and reunification. Examine a case study in which all concepts taught are integrated and considered for an effective overall response.
Guide to assist law enforcement in understanding and effecting important action items in championing, developing, implementing and maintain a Child Abduction Response Team (CART) with their jurisdiction/area.
PowerPoint slides from the LIVE Child Abduction Response Teams (CART): A Resource for Tribal Communities Webinar from August 22, 2024.
Transcript from the LIVE Child Abduction Response Teams (CART): A Resource for Tribal Communities Webinar from August 22, 2024.
Presentation for CART webinar
Written with the help of six persons who have experienced family abduction, this publication features valuable insights from a firsthand perspective. It is designed to provide the searching family, law enforcement, and mental health professionals with strategies to build a comprehensive, child-centered approach to recovery and healing.
You’re Not Alone: The Journey from Abduction to Empowerment, was prepared with the assistance of young adults who were themselves abducted as children and who are walking the path of healing and recovery. It is designed to help others who experience abduction begin to put their lives back together.
Portable guide - Investigating Child Abuse for Law Enforcement Response to Child Abuse
When Your Child Is Missing: A Family Survival Guide was written by parents who had experienced firsthand the trauma of a missing child and who wanted to help other parents facing the same overpowering loss. This guide was created to provide advice about what to do when your child is missing, whom to contact, and how to best assist law enforcement.
