The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) is a private, nonprofit organization established in 1984 as the nation's resource center on child protection and a clearinghouse for information on child victimization. 
NCMEC operates under a U.S. Congressional mandate and works in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. The FBI has a permanent presence in the NCMEC office. 

Since its creation, NCMEC has assisted law enforcement on over 73,000 cases of missing children, and has played a role in the location and recovery of over 55,000 children. NCMEC coordinates searches involving local law enforcement officials, the FBI and often International Police (INTERPOL). The International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children opened in 2000. 

NCMEC has generated widespread national and international governmental, community, media and business support. The NCMEC database-drive Internet site reaches a global audience with images and information on missing children (www.missingkids.org). 

Thanks to broad support from the technology industry, the tools to find missing children today are greatly improved. Computer imaging, broadcast faxing, email, and the World Wide Web have replaced sketches, black and white posters, and two-day mail service. With the help of these technologies and innovative uses of many others, NCMEC has witnessed a remarkable increase in its recovery rate - from 66% in 1989 to over 93% today. 

To millions of people, NCMEC is still "the milk-carton people" and is best known for the "missing-child photo". Today, the NCMEC photo-distribution system includes hundreds of public and private sector partners, including a flier that is distributed in up to 80 million homes each week; Wal-Mart®'s Missing Children Network with bulletin boards in 3,000 stores reaching 120 million people per week; the U.S. federal government's missing-children bulletin boards in every federal building; and, most recently, the Internal Revenue Service's use of missing children's photographs in all tax forms and publications, disseminating 600 million images to the public. The impact: As a direct result of this program, one in every 6 children featured is recovered.

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