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National Mandate and Mission
The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children’s®
(NCMEC) mission is to help prevent child abduction and sexual exploitation;
help find missing children; and assist victims of child abduction and
sexual exploitation, their families, and the professionals who serve them.
NCMEC was established in 1984 as a private, nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization
to provide services nationwide for families and professionals in the prevention
of abducted, endangered, and sexually exploited children. Pursuant to
its mission and its congressional mandates (see 42 U.S.C. §§
5771 et seq.; 42 U.S.C. § 11606; 22 C.F.R. §
94.6), NCMEC
- Serves as a clearinghouse of information about missing and exploited
children
- Operates a CyberTipline that the public may use to report Internet-related
child sexual exploitation
- Provides technical assistance to individuals and law-enforcement agencies
in the prevention, investigation, prosecution, and treatment of cases
involving missing and exploited children
- Assists the U.S. Department of State in certain cases of international
child abduction in accordance with the Hague Convention on the Civil
Aspects of International Child Abduction
- Offers training programs to law-enforcement and social-service professionals
- Distributes photographs and descriptions of missing children worldwide
- Coordinates child-protection efforts with the private sector
- Networks with nonprofit service providers and state clearinghouses
about missing-persons cases
- Provides information about effective state legislation to help ensure
the protection of children
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