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Guidelines to Follow
- Continuing Efforts |
After the first 48 hours, you should start to organize a long-term
plan. Try and recruit others to help you with this task. Creating
and posting flyers, keeping the story in the media, setting up a
reward, and contacting agencies that can help are just a few of
the jobs that will need to be done.
Keeping your missing loved one visible is very important. Producing
a good missing person flyer and posting it in as many places as
possible will help. Have a person with good computer skills create
a flyer with the missing person’s picture, statistics, what he or
she was last seen wearing, where he or she was last seen, and any
other information that is important to the disappearance or
abduction. Have volunteers post them everywhere that is allowed.
High school students are a great resource for this. Try and enlist
one of their clubs, such as the PALS or National Honor Society,
to help.
The media is so important to the visibility of your missing loved
one; this document devotes a special section to it. See if a close
friend or relative will volunteer to lead the media tasks. The
formal title for this is Press Information Officer, but you may
label the job anything you wish.
If a reward has not yet been offered, try and set one up. Usually
five or ten thousand dollars can be raised quickly. We recommend
that a special bank account be set up to accept any reward donations.
There are numerous agencies available to help. Some agencies
will post your missing person flyers on the Internet and even FAX
and e-mail them to churches, businesses and individuals. Other
agencies can help with searches and victims’ rights. A list of
agencies and what they do is contained in the Other Resources
section of this document.
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