Take Root

Take Root, a non-profit organization established on a grant from the United States Department of Justice,[1][2][3] was the first missing-child organization to be founded by former abducted children.[4][5] Founded in 2003 as a program under the auspices of the Association of Missing & Exploited Children's Organizations and independently incorporated as a 501(c)(3) in 2005, Take Root had over five hundred former abducted children participate in its ground-breaking peer support program for former abducted children, creating an unprecedented knowledge and database used by its Child Abduction Studies branch to develop multidisciplinary training, case consultation, and policy recommendations.[5] The agency's mission is to "insert the voice of the primary victim into public and policy discussions on child abduction, using the collected wisdom of former victims to improve America's missing-child response." Their tags-line are "beyond recovering missing-children; to helping missing-children recover" and, "where missing children are seen and heard." Take Root was the brain child of Melissa "Liss" Haviv, a Fulbright Scholar in cultural anthropology touted by NPR as a leading expert in the victimology of long term child abduction [5][6][7][8]

In an image from the Take Root website, members of Take Root hold their own missing child posters

See also

References
  1. Take Root official web site home page Archived 2007-10-04 at the Wayback Machine See note in lower left-hand corner of home page; retrieved October 19, 2007
  2. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Programs government web site retrieved October 19, 2007
  3. Practitioner Resources web site on grants retrieved October 19, 2007
  4. "When The Missing Return, Recovery Is Long, Too". NPR.org. Retrieved 2016-11-25.
  5. Broughton, Daniel D. (2015-09-10). Perspectives on Missing Persons Cases. Carolina Academic Press. ISBN 9781611635164.
  6. NPR story on Take Root
  7. Take Root official web site
  8. "Family abduction takes bitter toll on victims". msnbc.com. 2006-05-15. Retrieved 2016-11-25.


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