The National Association for Child Abduction Prevention, (N.A.C.A.P.) is a community-based 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt charitable organization advocating the use of education and technology to safeguard children throughout the United States.

N.A.C.A.P. is the first organization of its kind to successfully integrate, synthesize and distribute advanced biometric, radio frequency and satellite technologies together in a comprehensive approach to preventing and finding missing children.

N.A.C.A.P. is first to introduce the CDID™, the most comprehensive digital child identification system available anywhere in the United States. Parents can use the CDID™ to record their children's complete medical history, including DNA information and a library of digital photographs, video and fingerprints onto a single-source CD rom. The CDID™ is insurance that a parent will have all of the information necessary to aid emergency medical staff in the event a child is rushed to a hospital or suddenly becomes missing. The digital format is compatible with the newly introduced Amber Alert system and provides instantaneously distribution of a missing child's information to law enforcement, child locator organizations, volunteer search crews, private detectives and members of the media.

N.A.C.A.P. is actively seeking to create corporate and community partnerships that will serve to promote child safety awareness and our comprehensive child identification services in communities throughout the United States.
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Additionally, N.A.C.A.P. is working diligently with policy makers, law enforcement agencies and community safety organizations to revolutionize the way children are preemptively identified in schools, day care centers and at community based events.

Now more than ever, children are vulnerable to becoming victims of cyber-crime, neighborhood sex offenses and non custodial or stranger abduction. N.A.C.A.P. is committed to educating parents, children and professionals on the subject of child vulnerability prevention. N.A.C.A.P. needs your support to help convey our message of safety preparation through the use of education and technology.

Equally important, is our commitment to educate parents on recovery techniques and available resources that a parent can utilize in the event that their child disappears. N.A.C.A.P. prepares parents to respond and not just merely react to a missing children situation.

A parent's role by today's standards is much more complex and challenging than ever before imaginable!

In fact, in a report published last year, the Department of Justice over 800,000 were reported missing last year due to runaway, throwaway and abduction incidents. It is estimated that roughly a third of the reported missing children were victims of abduction. Approximately, over 117,000 family abductions/33,000 non family abductions took place in 1999. (NISMART)

Compare this to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Child Maltreatment 2000 report, which estimated the amount of children that fall victim to abuse and neglect is over 879,000 and that over 250,000 each year are placed in foster care as a result of child abuse.

At N.A.C.A.P., we believe child abduction is child abuse! We also believe child abduction is largely preventable with education and safety preparation. It is for this reason that N.A.C.A.P. serves the general public at large by providing parents, children and professionals who work with children with the tools, knowledge and resources to protect their children.

Our child safety initiatives are divided into (3) distinct categories:

I. Abduction Prevention Education (Onsite & web based)
a) Interactive Training for Child
b) Reinforcement Training for Parents
c) Reinforcement Training for Professionals
d) Cyber-safety for all

II. Comprehensive Child Identification Services
a) Child I.D. kits and cards (paper and digital formats)
b) Safe Shoes Labeling System
c) Web-based and point of purchase CD ID kits
d) Professional Photography and Video for kits and cards
e) Ink/Inkless/Digital fingerprinting
f) DNA sampling

III. Advanced Technology Products and Services
a) Development of Child Guard & Tracking Devices (Radio and ___Satellite based)
b) Distribution of Child Guard &Tracking Devices (Radio and ___Satellite based)
c) Distribution of Wireless Alarm systems (Residential & ___Commercial)
d) Distribution of Biometric Security Devices (Commercial)
e) Education on use of Child Tracking Devices

The child safety initiatives herein outlined are orchestrated and managed through the collective efforts of our hard-working volunteers that believe in our safety principles and advocate them in the communities to which we serve. Therefore, we are always interested in recruiting additional volunteers that share our enthusiasm and dedication to making our communities safer for children.

At N.A.C.A.P., we believe a comprehensive approach to safeguarding children is the "first step" in eliminating child abduction in this country. Ultimately, we hope our efforts and safety principles will serve as a foundation to provide and encourage all parents and professionals who work with children to reinforce our goals and objectives as they relate to the safety of children. We believe every child deserves the right to feel and be safe and that the burden of protecting our children is a shared responsibility.

N.A.C.A.P. is dedicated to empowering children, parents and professionals with a message of hope and understanding that together we can eliminate child abduction in this country, one community at a time.

Please review the enclosed information concerning N.A.C.A.P. and our safety initiatives. We hope that you will join us in our efforts to keep children safe by becoming an affiliated corporate sponsor or partner. We look forward to personally speaking with you and discussing the unique ways in which your organization can make a difference in the lives of children in your community and elsewhere!