National Missing Children's Day

Statewide Digital Billboard Campaign Aims to Find Missing Children in Texas

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Thursday, May 25, 2023

HOUSTON, May 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Texas Center for the Missing (TCM), The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) and Clear Channel Outdoor Americas (CCOA) (NYSE: CCO) launched a new month-long campaign across Texas calling attention to the ongoing searches for local missing children. Coinciding with National Missing Children's Day (May 25), the digital out-of-home (DOOH) campaign will highlight different missing children's cases in Dallas, Houston and San Antonio to help generate leads.

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  • HOUSTON, May 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Texas Center for the Missing (TCM), The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) and Clear Channel Outdoor Americas (CCOA) (NYSE: CCO) launched a new month-long campaign across Texas calling attention to the ongoing searches for local missing children.
  • Coinciding with National Missing Children's Day (May 25), the digital out-of-home (DOOH) campaign will highlight different missing children's cases in Dallas, Houston and San Antonio to help generate leads.
  • The Texas Department of Public Safety Missing Persons Clearinghouse received 47,670 missing person reports in 2022, with 34,828 being juveniles.
  • The new billboard campaign enables TCM to reach a broad audience across Texas by distributing photos of missing children in targeted areas that can aid law enforcement with a search.

National Digital Billboard Campaign Seeks to Bring Missing Children Home, Will Hyper-Focus on Texas Teens

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Wednesday, May 25, 2022

HOUSTON, May 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Texas Center for the Missing, Houston's Amber Alert Provider, and Clear Channel Outdoor (NYSE: CCO) today launched a month long national child safety awareness campaign coinciding with National Missing Children's Day (May 25). The digital Out-of-Home (DOOH) campaign will help generate leads for missing children's cases nationwide. Specifically in Texas, where 253 children are missing, CCO held four press conferences earlier today to highlight missing children's cases in Houston, San Antonio, Dallas and El Paso. 

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  • Specifically in Texas, where 253 children are missing, CCO held four press conferences earlier today to highlight missing children's cases in Houston, San Antonio, Dallas and El Paso.
  • Children go missing every day in the United States, and while most are found quickly, some remain missing for months and even years.
  • The Texas Department of Public Safety Missing Persons Clearinghouse received 46,581 missing person reports in 2021 with 33,774 being juveniles.
  • "Digital billboard messages have worked repeatedly to help find these children and we are honored to play a role in this safety campaign alongside NCMEC and Texas Center for the Missing."

The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children & MUH-TAY-ZIK / HOF-FER Enhance Runaway Train 25 with Customization Technology on National Missing Children's Day

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Monday, May 25, 2020

Since its launch on National Missing Children's Day 2019, Runaway Train 25 has assisted in the recovery of more than 20 missing children.

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  • Since its launch on National Missing Children's Day 2019, Runaway Train 25 has assisted in the recovery of more than 20 missing children.
  • Users can add up to six missing children from the database into their own version of the Runaway Train 25 music video.
  • These pages will display the Runaway Train video to millions of Yahoo andAOL users on National Missing Children's Day.
  • https://mtzhf.com/
    Founded on May 22, 2019, Runaway Train 25 is a cross-industry initiative led by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) and MUH-TAY-ZIK / HOF-FER to reinvent the search for missing children.

International Missing Children's Day brings focus to cases of missing children

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Monday, May 25, 2020

CALGARY, Alberta, May 25, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- May 25 is International Missing Children Day, a day that is marked around the world to remember children who are missing and those who have been found.

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  • CALGARY, Alberta, May 25, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- May 25 is International Missing Children Day, a day that is marked around the world to remember children who are missing and those who have been found.
  • The Missing Children Society of Canada (MCSC), uses this day to draw attention to cases of missing children across Canada, with a solemn reminder that children everywhere deserve to feel safe each day of the year.
  • In 2001, May 25 was officially recognized as International Missing Children's Day, thanks to a joint effort between the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children, Missing Children Europe and the European Commission.
  • The Missing Children Society of Canada urges everyone to join in the search for missing children.