Spend 25 minutes with us as we talk with Nancy A. McBride, National Safety Director for NCMEC about their new program called Take 25. It was created to heighten awareness about children’s safety issues. With a focus on prevention, the campaign encourages parents, guardians, and other trusted-adult role models to spend time talking to kids and teaching them ways to be safer. Take 25 was started to commemorate National Missing Children’s Day on May 25th.
Nancy A McBride has been with the Adam Walsh Center since its inception in 1981, serving as Guardian ad Litem coordinator, and program coordinator, in which she supervised all the programs of the Center, including the child safety education program, “Safety with Strangers”, Fingerprinting of children, the Court Monitor Project and Legislative Advocacy. She also acted as administrative assistant to John Walsh. After successfully assisting on five major television productions, including ADAM and HBO’s HOW TO RAISE A STREET SMART CHILD, Ms. McBride left the Center to become regional trainer with HBO in Atlanta, Georgia, 1987.
Ms. McBride returned in 1990 as executive director of the Florida Branch of the Adam Walsh Child Resource Center, after the merger of the Center with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) headquartered outside Washington, DC in Alexandria, Virginia. The Adam Walsh Center became the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children/Florida Branch in 1995. She is the National Safety Director for NCMEC and authors many of the child safety publications, including Know the Rules…When Your Child is Flying Unaccompanied, For Child Safety in Amusement or Theme Parks, For Child Safety in Youth Sports, After School Safety for Children Who Are Home Alone, and New Neighborhood Safety Tips, She is a frequent lecturer on the issues of child safety and exploitation.
She is often a guest on television and radio programs dealing with child exploitation and has been widely quoted in print medium, including, TIME, December 27, 1993, and GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, May 1996, and USA TODAY, February 10, 2004. The publication, Child Safety in Youth Sports, authored by Ms. McBride, was adapted for a SPORTS ILLUSTRATED cover story, “Who’s Coaching Your Kid? The frightening truth about child molestation in youth sports,” September 13, 1999. Her article Child Safety is More Than a Slogan dispelling the “stranger-danger” myth has been widely distributed.
The mission of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children® (NCMEC) is to help prevent child abduction and sexual exploitation; help find missing children; and assist victims of child abduction and sexual exploitation, their families, and the professionals who serve them
A New Approach for Parents, Teachers, Clergy, Recreational Directors and Anyone Who Cares About Children. This is a book whose goal is to reduce the crime statistics against children. The FBI estimates that one in three girls and one in five boys will be victims of sex crimes.
Lauren, was very gracious with her time in sharing about her book, and what us as parents can do to stop the cycle, and re-cycle of sexual predators and child molesters in our neighborhoods …
Find out why in 1974 — there was a 2000% increase sexual predators crimes!
Hard to believe 1 in 3 adults reports, that they have been a victim of sexual abuse…
Find how to include the children in the education process, when dealing with all forms of sexual abuse!
How do we teach YOUNG minds about these problem, and how not to KEEP secrets from their parents.
Report unacceptable behavior by adults or teens against your kids, better to be safe than SORRY…
Also you can hear her live radio show interview with the The CyberHood Watch Partners on BlogTalkRadio.com… Join Dave & Bill as they talk with Lauren about how to protect your kids…
We want you to come along with us on our journey of becoming, Responsible Cybercitizens! Be a part of the solution, not a part of the problem!
The CyberHood Watch Is Where You Want To Be A Part Of The Hood! And Neighbors, Friends And Families Are The Best Part!
IF YOUR CHILD WAS MISSING WOULDN’T YOU PRAY THAT EVERYONE PASSED THIS MESSAGE OR EMAILED IT TO EVERYONE THEY KNEW!!!!! PLEASE DO THE RIGHT THING AND FORWARD IT!? Plus Read the rest of the story here: Missing Girl from North Dakota! You never know where this Message or Email could end up, and I’m not going to stop passing this one around if it means a little girl can be found!!!
Please spread this picture far and wide…. You just never know.
BEFORE YOU SKIP THIS, LOOK AT THE CHILD. DO IT AGAIN. NOW SEND IT TO ALL IN YOUR ADDRESS BOOK. IT TAKES 10 SECONDS. PEOPLE ARE MISSING HER AND SHE WANTS TO BE HOME. DO SOMETHING GOOD
Thank you, for dropping by our website, and having take the next step and deciding to be a part of The CyberHood Watch….
To get your free book go to the form in the upper right-hand corner fill in the info, and you will be taken directly to your copy of the book: “Don’t Take Candy From Strangers”
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It was the Information Age (1994) and Americans embraced it by accepting electronic access into their homes. The phone remained virtually unchanged; however, computers penetration into homes increased significantly between 1994 and 1997. Personal computers in 1997 increased 52% that was 36.6% of Americans nationwide owned computers. Modems increased 139%, and email increased 397% (U.S. Dept. of Commerce). Its eleven years later and we all realize that the numbers of computers in the home are significantly higher and the technology is far superior to 1997.
Although the telephone penetration remained slightly unchanged at 98.3% it was slightly higher in the rural areas. The trend in hardware has laid the ground work for what would become the next great trend…Software! (more…)
It is easier for a predator or a pedophile to gain the trust of one of your children online than it is for me to convince parents or adults to trust me when I tell them the Internet has changed. Pandora’s box has been opened and the explosion of information both personal and non-personal seems to be limitless and increases exponentially. And according to the National Opinion Poll taken in January of 2007 half the UK harbors a “deep mistrust” due to security concerns. Not only is there a deep public mistrust but, the House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology are inquiring into the need for personal Internet Security because of the growing use of home computers, expansion of broadband, internet banking and commerce (Brent MacLean “A new look at Internet Security” Monday September 10, 2007).
Every one is talking extensively ( ISP Associations, Richard Clayton of the Cambridge Security Lab, John Carr of the Children’s Charities Coalition on Internet Safety, as well as Johnathan Zittrain of the Oxford Internet Institute and many others), gathering evidence of information and compiling it all for what? Sadly, most businesses and citizens still do not take the threat posed by cyber-insecurity seriously. (more…)
