Take Root, a non-profit organization established on a grant from the United States Department of Justice,Take Root official web site home page See note in lower left-hand corner of home page; retrieved October 19, 2007Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Programs government web site retrieved October 19, 2007Practitioner Resources web site on grants retrieved October 19, 2007 was the first missing-child organization to be founded by former abducted children. Founded in 2003 as a program under the auspices of the Association of Missing & Exploited Children's Organizations and independently incorporated as a 501(c)(3) in 2005, Take Root had over five hundred former abducted children participate in its ground-breaking peer support program for former abducted children, creating an unprecedented knowledge and database used by its Child Abduction Studies branch to develop multidisciplinary training, case consultation, and policy recommendations. The agency's mission is to "insert the voice of the primary victim into public and policy discussions on child abduction, using the collected wisdom of former victims to improve America's missing-child response." Their tags-line are "beyond recovering missing-children; to helping missing-children recover" and, "where missing children are seen and heard." Take Root was the brain child of Melissa "Liss" Haviv, a Fulbright Scholar in cultural anthropology touted by NPR as a leading expert in the victimology of long term child abduction Take Root official web site
See also Child abduction Victimology International child abduction
References
Belzman, Josh, "Victims of Family Abduction Speak Out", MSNBC.com, May 14. Feeg, Veronica, "What is Not Part of the Child Abduction News Story?", Journal of Pediatric Nursing (Jannetti) 33 (1), Jan-Feb 2007. Office of Juvenile Justice & Delinquency Prevention, What About Me? Coping With the Abduction of a Brother or Sister (published 2007). Hammer, Nancy, "The Myths and Truths of Family Abduction", USA Today, Sept 2003. Pressley, Sue Ann, "Left in a Life of Uncertainty", The Washington Post, June 6, 2006:A01. Halloran, Liz, "When the Missing Return Recovery is Long Too", NPR, May 15, 2013