Take Root Explained

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. 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 ^{[6] [7] [8]}

See also

• Child abduction
• Victimology
• International child abduction

References

• Belzman, Josh, "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, "The Myths and Truths of Family Abduction", USA Today, Sept 2003.
• Pressley, Sue Ann, "Left in a Life of Uncertainty", The Washington Post, June 6, 2006:A01.
• Halloran, Liz, "When the Missing Return Recovery is Long Too", NPR, May 15, 2013

Notes and References

1. http://www.takeroot.org/home.php Take Root official web site home page
2. http://ojjdp.ncjrs.gov/ Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Programs government web site
3. http://www.practitionerresources.org/showdoc.html?id=19370 Practitioner Resources web site on grants
4. Web site: When The Missing Return, Recovery Is Long, Too. NPR.org. 2016-11-25.
5. Book: Broughton, Daniel D.. Perspectives on Missing Persons Cases. 2015-09-10. Carolina Academic Press. 9781611635164. en.
6. Web site: When The Missing Return, Recovery Is Long, Too . . https://web.archive.org/web/20200814171956/https://www.npr.org/2013/05/15/183954138/when-the-missing-return-recovery-is-long-too . 2020-08-14 . live .
7. http://www.takeroot.org Take Root official web site
8. News: Family abduction takes bitter toll on victims. https://web.archive.org/web/20160305142719/http://www.nbcnews.com/id/10038590/. dead. March 5, 2016. 2006-05-15. msnbc.com. 2016-11-25.