Powering the Search for Missing Children
- ICMEC hosts the world’s largest missing child alerting system. Since the platform was launched in 2019, the GMCNgine has generated over 6 billion missing child alert media impressions and assisted with the recovery of more than 1,575 missing children.
- The Global Missing Children’s Network, which offers resources to law enforcement and NGOs to assist in preventing and responding to reports of missing children, currently has 31 member countries across 4 continents.
- We have helped 19 countries develop Rapid Emergency Child Alert Systems similar to AMBER Alert in the U.S.
- We have worked with 8 countries to develop comprehensive national responses to the issue of missing children.
Supporting Front-Line Professionals
- Since 2003, ICMEC has trained more than 60,000 law enforcement officers, investigators, prosecutors, and other specialists from 128 countries.
- Our Education Portal houses more than 400 open-source resources for child-serving professionals. To date, the portal has reached more than 50,000 professionals from 148 countries with policy and national law summaries, accreditation standards, incident response guides, and other training topics.
- Our newly launched HealthPortal includes the latest resources and self-paced e-learning modules to equip medical professionals with the tools and knowledge to recognize and treat child sexual abuse and exploitation.
- The Global Health Coalition includes 33 health-sector members, including 4 of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, who have joined forces to address child sexual exploitation as a public health crisis.
- Through the Global Initiative for Child Health & Well-Being, ICMEC is partnering with the International Task Force on Child Protection, which is comprised of members of the international school community, and the U.S. Department of State to deliver resources and training to educators and school personnel in more than 1,135 schools across 109 countries to combat child sexual abuse and exploitation.
- ICMEC’s Global Educator Centre for Excellence partners with the International Task Force on Child Protection, the U.S. Department of State, and regional education associations to provide resources, training, and support to educators and school personnel in thousands of schools across the world to combat child sexual abuse and exploitation.
The Koons Family Institute on International Law & Policy
- Since 2009, The Koons Family Institute has hosted more than 330 research interns and volunteers, resulting in more than 82,000 hours of research.
- Since Child Sexual Abuse Material: Model Legislation & Global Review was first released in 2006, 150 countries have refined or implemented new anti-child sexual abuse material laws.
Financial Coalitions Against Child Sexual Exploitation
- Our Financial Coalitions in the US and Asia Pacific fight against the online sale and dissemination of child sexual exploitation materials and live on-demand sexual abuse of children via video platforms. As a result of its efforts, the use of credit cards to purchase child sexual abuse content online has been virtually eliminated globally.