Welcome to Texas Center for the Missing

Texas Center for the Missing (formerly known as Gabriel’s Gifts Missing Children’s Organization) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to offering help, and hope, to the missing and their families. Founded in 2000 by Doreen Wise after the four-month disappearance and tragic loss of her son, Gabriel, the organization is dedicated to finding the missing quickly and providing support to their families. Building upon our founder’s desire to offer help to missing children and their parents, we have recently expanded into the rapidly growing field of Alzheimer’s patients who wander from their caregivers.

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2010 Chevron Houston
Marathon Heroes!

Andrea Biernacki
Nina Spadaccino
Barbara Hinchcliffe
GDF Suez Energy North America
Brian & Mary Walls
Tricia Bradford
Martina Dixon
Saleh Elsaid
Ricardo Flores
Darin Johnson
Kelley Land
George Lira
Don Lujan
Linda Madrid
Monica Massaro
Diana Montgomery
Christ Moore
Sonia Murphy
Katie O'Day
Adriana Ortiz
Brandy Pence
Sheri Sanders
Brent Smolik
Alan Svoboda
Susan Thompson
Andrea Trinklein
Stephanie Van Horn

The International Committee Red Cross has launched a Family Links Website aimed at enabling persons in Haiti and abroad to register the names of relatives with whom they are striving to restore contact. It will progressively incorporate information offering responses to those queries. Persons seeking news from their loved ones can therefore register the name of the sought persons directly on the site at:
http://www.icrc.org/familylinks

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2010 National Missing Children’s Day Poster Contest

Fact Sheet for Texas Participants
Flyer for 5th Graders
Poster Contest Application

Every year the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) sponsors a national poster contest and announces the winner at the annual National Missing Children’s Day Ceremony in Washington, DC. The purpose of the contest is to foster collaboration between the Department of Justice, State Missing Children Clearinghouses, Association of Missing and Exploited Children’s Organizations, Inc. members, and state school systems to raise awareness about child safety.

More importantly, the poster contest provides teachers the tools to educate children and parents about safety, and initiate conversations regarding prevention. Student involvement in the poster contest promotes peer education, while compelling students to explore the significance of the theme “Bring our Missing Children Home”.

Facts:
•	One winning entry from each state should be sent to the Department of Justice for the national judging and selection process.


•	The national winner will travel to Washington, DC to receive an award and participate in the Missing Children’s Day ceremony.


•	The theme for the poster contest is “Bring our Missing Children Home”.


•	Only fifth grade students are eligible to participate in the contest.

Important Dates to Remember:
February 1, 2010
	Deadline for Texas submissions to be received: Texas Center for the Missing Attn: Poster Contest P.O. Box 420148 Houston, TX 77242-0148


April 2010
	National winner notified


	Travel arrangements are initiated for attendance at National Missing Children’s Day ceremony.


May 25, 2010: National Missing Children’s Day.
	National Missing Children’s Day ceremony will take place on or around this date.

The Missing Children’s Day Poster Contest and the educational activities that accompany it are intended to demonstrate America’s united effort to bring missing children home safely. In 2010, DOJ hopes to have every state, territory, and the District of Columbia join together to educate children, teachers, parents, and communities on methods in keeping children safe. Please join us in this important program.

Information about the National Missing Children’s Day Poster Contest can be obtained by contacting Nadia Tunstall at 1-888-347-5610, or 1-202-347-5610, or via email at mc.day.2010@fvtc.edu.

Additional information is available on the following website: http://ojjdp.ncjrs.gov/programs/postercontest.