NCMEC stands for National Center for Missing Exploited Children founded in 1984. Just 3 years after John Walsh’s son Adam was kidnapped and murder in down south Florida. This organization provides in valuable resources to parents, children law enforcement in the United States and internationally. The charity consistently receives an A+ rating for its ability to spend more than 90 cents of every dollar raised on programming. The NCMEC is a leading example of a highly respected and effective non-profit that has partnerships with both the public and private sectors.
Do you know what to do if your child was to ever go missing? Who do you turn to? What are the procedures in case your child goes missing? These are some questions that every parent should have an answer to in case it ever happens to them. The AMBER Alert Program, named for 9-year-old Amber Hagerman, is a voluntary partnership between law-enforcement agencies, broadcasters, and transportation agencies to activate an urgent bulletin in the most serious child-abduction cases. Broadcasters use the Emergency Alert System (EAS) to air a description of the abducted child and suspected abductor. The goal of an AMBER Alert is to instantly galvanize the entire community to assist in the search for and safe recovery of the child.
John Walsh from America’s Most Wanted help co-founded National Center for Missing Exploited Children which merged from Adam Walsh Child Resource Center. Almost 30 years ago there was no real organized way of helping parents in efforts to locate missing children. But through John Walsh own personal tragedy that helps shape the way law enforcement and parents help find their missing children.
I hope that nobody ever has to go through the pain and long suffering of losing a child. But God forbids that it does happen will you be prepared to know what to do next. Remember that the National Center for Missing Children has recovered over more than 50 children and has put more than 1,000 criminals behind bars where they belong. This organization is very invaluable with plenty of resources and tons of help in recovering missing children. The site also has links to support groups of families who have been through familiar pain. They have publications for you read on about issues affecting children such as online predators which is growing greatly. We all have to do our part in helping keep our children safe.

Work Cited Page
1. "National Center for Missing Children." 2010. .
2. http://www.amw.com/