Introduction

 

The mission of The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) includes providing safety education to schools, parents, and communities. We have many services and resources which are available to your school.

 

 

Speaker's Bureau

 

The NCMEC-Mohawk Valley Office has a trained group of volunteers who are able to provide small or large group presentations to your students, PTA’s or other committees. The Speaker’s Bureau is a service which is offered by NCMEC at no charge. Topics include:

Personal Safety

Internet Safety

Runaway Prevention

Overview of NCMEC

The Ride for Missing Children

If you are interested in scheduling a speaker for an event, please contact the Mohawk Valley Office.

 

Wendy Fical, Program Director at the Mohawk Valley Office
(315) 732-7233 or wfical@ncmec.org

 

OR

Chip Hemmel, Speaker's Bureau Committee Chair
(315) 624-7818 or johnh@gkginsurance.com

 

 

The Ride For Missing Children

 

If your school is located alongThe Ride for Missing Children, or if your school would like to be involved in the event in some way, there are several programs which might interest you. To learn more about any of these programs, please see the contact information below.

 

Adopt – A – Rider

Many of the riders are connected with local schools through their children or friends. An effective way for the students in your schools to learn more about the importance of being safe, is to let them “adopt” a rider who has a connection with your school. The rider would work with you to coordinate a safety program that would be effective for your school.

Pennies for Posters

Pennies for Posters provides an opportunity for children to contribute to something useful and important. By raising money through coin collections, students help fund the distribution of posters by the Center.

 

Distributing posters is one of the most effective tools used to help locate children who are missing. Since 1995, the NCMEC-Mohawk Valley office has distributed over 7 million posters searching for 6,517 missing children. Four thousand six hundred and sixty nine (4,669) children, who have been featured in this targeted poster distribution program, have been successfully recovered.

 

 

Schools Committee Contact Info

 

If you would like to be a part of the education component of the RIDE, contact Karen LaScala at 315-737-5609 or email at karenlascala@gmail.com.

For Netsmartz presentations, please contact Wendy Fical at 315-732-7233 @ NCMEC, 934 York Street, Utica wfical@ncmec.org

 

School programs generally cover the basics: what is NCMEC; what is the RIDE; the 4 RULES of safety; what role the posters play in recovering missing and exploited children. Riders and volunteers share their our own stories of why they participate in the many aspects of the Ride for Missing and Exploited Children. Netsmartz programs cover Keeping Our Children Safe on the Internet as well as Cyberbulling and Sexting and other timely safety topics for children K - 12.