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• Child CyberSEARCH Canada - Maintains a database of missing Canadian children and offers educational information related to runaways and abducted children.
• Covenant House - One of the largest privately-funded childcare agencies in the U.S., Covenant House provides services to homeless and runaway youth. The website addresses both youth considering running away and their parents, and offers information and confidential hotlines.
• Helping Runaway and Homeless Youth Grow up Safe and Secure - In this 1999 speech, Sec. of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala emphasizes the importance of the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act.
• Keep Your Children Safe - Tips to prevent a teen from running away or being lured away, and what to do first if a child is missing.
• Missing Child Search - Site listing organizations to search for a missing child.
• Missing Indian Kids - Site designed to help locate missing children in India.
• Missing Son - Parents of missing children share their experiences through this site, which also offers helpful hotlines and links.
• National Runaway Switchboard - This 24-hour hotline service for U.S. parents and youth offers crisis intervention, message service, educational information, referrals, and runaway searches.
• Precious Heart: Archives: Runaway Children - The site provides bibliographies of publications related to the runaway experience in various categories such as "international works", "bibliographies and resource books", "shelters, law enforcement and psychology", and "legal, congresses and legislation".
• The Runaway Game - This "choose-your-own-adventure" style hypertext novel with 20 different endings was created 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.
• Runaway Lives: Personal Stories and Reflections by Runaways and Their Families - Forum for runaways and their family members to share their experiences through writings or images.
• StandUp For Kids On-Line - Recipient of national (U.S.) awards and recognition, StandUp For Kids is an all volunteer organization working on the streets to help runaway and homeless youth.
• Teens in Trouble: Runaways - Listing of runaway related links maintained by a parent for other parents from the site "Teens in Trouble: A Survival Page for Parents".
• Texas Runaway Hotline - This nonprofit hotline service provides crisis intervention and telephone counseling, information and referrals for callers seeking food, shelter and transportation home, and confidential conference calls between runaways and their families.
• 4thekids Missing Child Alert Services - Contains files of missing child reports, news, resources for families and details of the investigative team.
• Understanding and Preventing Teenage Runaways - Practical advice for parents and professionals including the motivations of teenage runaways, problems that increase the risk, warning signs, effective communication and steps to reduce the risk.
• When Your Child is Missing: A Family Survival Guide - Written by others who have experienced the trauma of a missing child, this excellent site offers a wealth of practical information and advice, as well as words of hope and encouragement, to parents of missing children.
• Youth Link of America - Nonprofit organization devoted to helping runaway and homeless youth find the resources needed. Contains events and newsletter.

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