Missing and Runaways

National Runaway Safeline – Volunteer organization which provides confidential help to runaways and their families, as well as information and educational services.

National Center for Missing and Exploited Kids – This non-profit U.S. agency employs state-of-the-art technology to locate missing children and teenagers.

Team Hope – provides one-on-one support to parents of missing children through a volunteer network of parents who have survived the experience. The website also offers a wealth of information on abduction, runaways, Internet enticement, etc.

Information & Statistics

When Your Child Is Missing: A Family Survival Guide – Informative and sensitive site for parents written (with assistance from law enforcement and youth service professionals) by parents who have experienced the trauma of a missing child.

Covenant House – Crisis Care for Homeless and At-Risk Kids

Hotlines

National Runaway Switchboard – phone 1-800-621-4003 

Child Find of America, Inc. (New York)- phone 1-800-a-way-out 

National Missing Children’s Locate Center (Oregon)-phone 1-800-999-7846         

For runaway hotlines in specific areas of the U.S., check the “Human Services” section of the local phone directory.

Travel & Communication Services

“Home Free” Bus Service – Greyhound Lines, in conjunction with the National Runaway Switchboard, will provide free one way transportation for runaway children returning home through its “Home Free” program.

Prevention & Intervention

Understanding and Preventing Teenage Runaways – advice a clinical psychologist.

The Runaway Game – “Choose-your-own-adventure” style hypertext novel with 20 different endings designed to help teenagers understand the realities of life as a runaway. At the end of each chapter, readers make choices which lead to different scenarios.