Family Survival Guide

Photo of Dr. Noelle Hunter with her daughter, Maayimuna “Muna”

Faces: Alabama Mother is Champion for Change

After years of advocacy—and fighting to get her daughter home safely from Mali, West Africa—Dr. Noelle Hunter is turning to research to further highlight the harrowing issue of international parental child abduction

Photo of the parent-authors are shown with NCJTC/AATTAP staff and OJJDP Administrator Elizabeth Ryan and her team.

Cover Story: The (New!) ‘Family Survival Guide’

Hear the powerful stories and lessons law enforcement can learn from the eight parents of missing children who helped us create the new multimedia edition of “When Your Child Is Missing: A Family Survival Guide.”

The parent-authors shared advice for searching parents and law enforcement during video filming sessions earlier this year in Salt Lake City.

About the ‘Family Survival Guide’ Parent-Authors

Yvonne Ambrose is the mother of Desiree Robinson, who was lured away from home, then exploited and enslaved through sex trafficking. Desiree was murdered December 24, 2016, as she fought to escape the perpetrator to whom her trafficker first sold her, primarily via the now-defunct Backpage site. Yvonne vowed to be her daughter’s voice, in […]

"Family Survival Guide" parent-author Ahmad Rivazfar, right, with Ed Smart (father of kidnapping survivor Elizabeth Smart) during their annual cross-country bike rides to raise awareness about missing children.

Advocacy Highlights: ‘Family Survival Guide’ Parents

1994 Patty Wetterling championed passage of the Jacob Wetterling Crimes Against Children and Sexually Violent Offender Registration Act, the first U.S. law to mandate that each state maintain a sex offender registry. 1996 Patty Wetterling helped accomplish: • President Bill Clinton’s executive memorandum requiring federal agencies to receive and post missing children’s fliers in their […]