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The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children® is a private, nonprofit 501(c)(3) corporation whose mission is to help find missing children, reduce child sexual exploitation, and prevent child victimization. NCMEC works with families, victims, professionals in the field, and the public to assist with preventing child abductions, recovering missing children, and providing services to deter and combat child sexual exploitation.

NCMEC achieves its mission through the provision of core functions set forth under 34 U.S.C. § 11293, which are designed to address the problem of missing and sexually exploited children.

NCMEC incorporates thoughtful design, implementation, documentation, and evaluation of short- and long-term goals. Staff members monitor, report, and analyze service outcomes, continually identifying and responding to evolving needs. Progress toward program goals is measured quarterly by assessing the number of population members served. NCMEC accepts the unrelenting charge to protect our nation's most vulnerable individuals from those who seek to harm them.

NCMEC will partner collaboratively with the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, U.S. Department of Justice on this project. Key goals and activities include, but are not limited to, serving as the national resource center and information clearinghouse for missing and exploited children; operating a national 24-hour, toll-free telephone line by which individuals may report information regarding the location of any missing child; operating a CyberTipline® to provide online users and electronic service providers a means to report internet-related child sexual exploitation; providing training and technical assistance to individuals and professionals in the field in the prevention, investigation, prosecution, and treatment of cases involving missing and sexually exploited children; and supporting development of tools and new technologies to modernize and improve efficiencies related to managing leads submitted to the CyberTipline for their use by law enforcement.

The National Center For Missing And Exploited Children

THE PURPOSE OF THE NATIONAL RESOURCE CENTER AND CLEARINGHOUSE, OPERATED BY THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR MISSING & EXPLOITED CHILDREN (NCMEC), IS TO HELP PREVENT CHILD ABDUCTION AND SEXUAL EXPLOITATION; FIND MISSING CHILDREN; AND PROVIDE TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE/TRAINING TO VICTIMS OF CHILD ABDUCTION AND SEXUAL EXPLOITATION, THEIR FAMILIES, AND THE PROFESSIONALS WHO SERVE THEM. THIS SUPPLEMENT FUNDS AN IAA BETWEEN THE USSS AND OJJDP TO SUPPORT NCMEC ACTIVITIES CONSISTENT WITH THEIR ORIGINAL AWARD.

16.543 - Missing Children's Assistance

Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) [DOJ - OJP]

Alexandria, Virginia 22314-5950 United States

Single Zip Code

OJJDP FY 2022 Invited to Apply - The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children - IAA USSS (O-OJJDP-2022-171442)

Amendment Since initial award the End Date has been extended from 09/30/23 to 09/30/25.