Project Safe Child joins forces with Fingerprint America and uses activePDF WebGrabber to help provide easy access to child profile reports that are proven to assist in the faster recovery of abducted children.
Organization: Project SafeChild
Industry: Non-profit
Product(s) Used: activePDF
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Project Safe Child joins forces with
Fingerprint America and uses activePDF WebGrabber to help provide easy access to
child profile reports that are proven to assist in the faster recovery of
abducted children.
Company
Overview
A missing child is every parent’s worst
nightmare. Even with the best parental care, almost 2,100 children a day, or 2
children a minute are reported missing each year. Project Safe Child (PSC) was
founded by a group of concerned parents who were alarmed by the increasing
number of child abductions occurring throughout the U.S. Its sole mission is to
provide families of victims and law enforcement agencies with assistance in
finding a missing child. In the past, technology has been severely lacking in
the area of child safety and preventative abduction measures and so these
parents felt compelled to contribute their skills and align with technology
companies around the world to assist parents in protecting their children.
PSC’s software solution, the KidFriendlyID Card , is designed to provide
children and parents with the necessary tools should they ever find themselves
in an abduction situation. The ID cards can be attached to a child’s personal
items - they do not contain names or photos, just a personal id number, advice
for the child, a toll free telephone number and instructions if the card is
found. Additionally, PSC has developed an online resource for parents to
maintain an up-to-date, easily accessible Personal ID Kit containing
comprehensive information, including pictures and fingerprints, about their
children. PSC hosts many events across the nation in conjunction with local law
enforcement agencies and corporate sponsors to help create profiles and ID cards
for children using the software version of their online resource. High-quality
PDF reports of each child’s profile can be generated within minutes, effectively
centralizing vital information about each child and enabling parents to provide
critical details as quickly as possible in the event of abduction.
Business
Challenge
It often takes parents up to three
or four days to retrieve the necessary information required to assist in the
search for a missing child. Additionally, many U.S. police departments collect
data on local children but parents do not have an easy way to share that
information with other jurisdictions in the case of child abduction. Every lost
hour reduces the chance of safe recovery. With minimal technology available to
assist families of missing individuals, PSC founders decided to create a
software application (KidFriendlyID) that would provide the functionality
necessary to organize specific information imperative to the recovery of a
family member. In order to present a complete solution to parents and law
enforcement agencies, PSC needed a reliable method of distributing the
information collected and a report generator was required.
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