How to Prepare for a Child Abduction Response Team (CART) Certification
Webinar (Upcoming)

How to Prepare for a Child Abduction Response Team (CART) Certification

June 6, 2024 | 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM CT

Seconds count when a child goes missing. A Child Abduction Response Team (CART) is a critical tool law enforcement agencies use to provide an effective and efficient response to a missing child incident. The CART Certification Program ensures CARTs operate at a level of excellence in both their structure and operational ability and are practiced, tested, and ready. Walk-through the process of certification and pinpoint the resources necessary to ready a team. Identify next steps to bringing a CART to full certification.

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What's In It For You

Upon completion of this webinar, you will be able to: * Recognize how the CART Certification process works * Identify preparation steps and tasks to ready a CART for certification * Pinpoint next steps to move a CART to and through the certification process

Is This Training For You?

* Community Member * Community Corrections Officer * Court System Personnel * Educator * Emergency Management * Law Enforcement * Law Enforcement Support * Prosecutors * Social Workers * Tribes/Tribal Partners * Victim Service Providers

Instructors
- Derek VanLuchene
Derek VanLuchene   Project Coordinator, AMBER Alert Training and Technical Assistance Program (AATTAP)

Derek VanLuchene brings a unique perspective to the investigation and response to child abductions. In 1987, when Derek was 17 years old, his 8 year old brother Ryan was abducted and murdered by a repeat sex offender. Ryan was taken from the family’s backyard in a rural Montana community. Since that time, Derek has devoted himself to issues of sex offender management and child abduction response. Derek spent 18 years as a Montana Law Enforcement Officer working for both the Conrad Police Department and The Montana Division of Criminal Investigation. Currently, Derek manages Ryan United, a non-profit organization dedicated to his brother. Through Ryan United, Derek provides resources to crime victims, law enforcement, corrections officials specific to sex offender management, child abduction and community safety. As a Project Coordinator for AMBER Alert, Derek focuses on expanding the number of US DOJ Certified CART programs nationwide.

Derek VanLuchene   Project Coordinator, AMBER Alert Training and Technical Assistance Program (AATTAP)

Derek VanLuchene brings a unique perspective to the investigation and response to child abductions. In 1987, when Derek was 17 years old, his 8 year old brother Ryan was abducted and murdered by a repeat sex offender. Ryan was taken from the family’s backyard in a rural Montana community. Since that time, Derek has devoted himself to issues of sex offender management and child abduction response. Derek spent 18 years as a Montana Law Enforcement Officer working for both the Conrad Police Department and The Montana Division of Criminal Investigation. Currently, Derek manages Ryan United, a non-profit organization dedicated to his brother. Through Ryan United, Derek provides resources to crime victims, law enforcement, corrections officials specific to sex offender management, child abduction and community safety. As a Project Coordinator for AMBER Alert, Derek focuses on expanding the number of US DOJ Certified CART programs nationwide.

Contact Information

Jeanette Leitner
(877) 798-7682
jeanette.leitner1969@fvtc.edu
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