Critical First Steps: Assessment Techniques in Missing Children Incidents
Webinar (Upcoming)

Critical First Steps: Assessment Techniques in Missing Children Incidents

September 3, 2025 | 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM CT

Identify the five key categories of missing child case and explore how to spot the warning signs that place a child at greater risk for homicide or abduction. Discover the patterns and factors that matter most and see how a strong initial assessment can drive smarter resource deployment and set the investigation on the right track from the start.

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What's In It For You

Upon completion of this webinar, you will be able to: * Explain how risk factors help determine which of five categories of missing - runaway, misunderstanding, accidental, family abduction, non-family abduction - a child may fall into * Compare prevalent factors found within missing child categories related to homicide or abduction * Explain how the initial assessment of a child's unexplained disappearance influences the allocation of resources and guides the investigation

Is This Training For You?

* AMBER Alert Coordinator/Support * AMBER Alert Program Staff * Law Enforcement * Law Enforcement Support * Prosecutors

Instructors
- Mark MacKizer
Mark MacKizer   NCJTC Associate Instructor

Mark retired after 27 years as a Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation where he spent most of his career conducting violent crime investigations. Mark held positions such as Crisis Management Coordinator, Violent Gang Safe Streets Task Force Coordinator, and team leader for the FBI’s Southeast Region Child Abduction Rapid Deployment Team. For the last 7 years of his career, he was assigned to the Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) where he was responsible for providing behaviorally based operational support to law enforcement involved in the investigation of violent crimes and threats. Mark co-authored Crimes Against Children: Behavioral and Investigative Perspectives and the third edition of the FBI’s Child Abduction Response Plan. Since retiring, Mark continues to provide operational behavioral analysis-based consulting services to government and private sector entities.

Mark MacKizer   NCJTC Associate Instructor

Mark retired after 27 years as a Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation where he spent most of his career conducting violent crime investigations. Mark held positions such as Crisis Management Coordinator, Violent Gang Safe Streets Task Force Coordinator, and team leader for the FBI’s Southeast Region Child Abduction Rapid Deployment Team. For the last 7 years of his career, he was assigned to the Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) where he was responsible for providing behaviorally based operational support to law enforcement involved in the investigation of violent crimes and threats. Mark co-authored Crimes Against Children: Behavioral and Investigative Perspectives and the third edition of the FBI’s Child Abduction Response Plan. Since retiring, Mark continues to provide operational behavioral analysis-based consulting services to government and private sector entities.

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