Take Root

Take Root

Take Root, a non-profit organization funded by the US Department of Justice, [ [http://www.takeroot.org/home.php Take Root official web site home page] See note in lower left-hand corner of home page; retrieved October 19, 2007] [ [http://ojjdp.ncjrs.gov/grants/010518b.pdf copy of blank DOJ Grant application] pdf] [ [http://ojjdp.ncjrs.gov/ Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Programs governemnt web site] retrieved October 19, 2007] [ [http://www.practitionerresources.org/showdoc.html?id=19370 Practitioner Resources web site on grants] retrieved October 19, 2007] is the first missing-child organization ever founded by former abducted children. Incorporated in 2005, over one hundred former abducted children have participated, providing peer support to fellow former abducted children, advocating on child-abduction issues from the child-victim's perspective, and providing landmark information on the victimology of child-abduction to multidisciplinary professionals, impacted families, and the public. [ [http://www.takeroot.org Take Root official web site] ]

ee also

*Child abduction
*Victimology

References

*Belzman, Josh, [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10038590/ "Victims of Family Abduction Speak Out"] , MSNBC.com, May 14.
*Feeg, Veronica, "What is Not Part of the Child Abduction News Story?", Journal of Pediatric Nursing (Jannetti) 33 (1), Jan-Feb 2007.
*Office of Juvenile Justice & Delinquency Prevention, What About Me? Coping With the Abduction of a Brother or Sister (published 2007).
*Hammer, Nancy, [http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-108791270.html "The Myths and Truths of Family Abduction"] ,USA Today, Sept 2003.
*Pressley, Sue Ann, [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/05/AR2006060501378_pf.html "Left in a Life of Uncertainty"] , The Washington Post, June 6, 2006:A01.


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