Take Root

In an image from the Take Root website, members of Take Root hold their own missing child posters

Take Root, a non-profit organization established on a grant from the United States Department of Justice,^[1][2][3] is the first missing-child organization ever founded by former abducted children.^[4][5] Founded in 2003 and incorporated as a 501(c)(3) in 2005, over five 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.^[5] The agency's mission is to "insert the voice of the primary victim into public and policy discussions on abduction, using the collected wisdom of former missing-children 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 is the brain child of Melissa "Liss" Haviv, a Fulbright Scholar in cultural anthropology and former abduction victim who is considered a leading expert in the victimology of long term child abduction ^[5][6][7][8]

See also

• Child abduction
• Victimology
• International child abduction

References

1. Take Root official web site home page See note in lower left-hand corner of home page; retrieved October 19, 2007
2. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Programs government web site retrieved October 19, 2007
3. Practitioner Resources web site on grants retrieved October 19, 2007
4. "When The Missing Return, Recovery Is Long, Too". NPR.org. Retrieved 2016-11-25.
5. Broughton, Daniel D. (2015-09-10). Perspectives on Missing Persons Cases. Carolina Academic Press. ISBN 9781611635164.
6. NPR story on Take Root
7. Take Root official web site
8. "Family abduction takes bitter toll on victims". msnbc.com. 2006-05-15. Retrieved 2016-11-25.

• 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