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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.

First proclaimed by President Ronald Reagan…

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.

Please Join us, as we interview Nancy A. McBride

Learn What is NCMEC’s mission?

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

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