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The AmberAlert.com Team

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…A child goes missing in the United States every 40 seconds.

Today, May 25th,  is National Missing Children’s Day. For 27 years, each administration has honored this annual reminder to the nation to renew efforts to reunite missing children with their families and make child protection a national priority.

Remembering children today, AmberAlert.com continues their efforts to help keep children and families safe through safeguarding, response and prevention. To ensure the safety of children and families, they developed the most advanced information dissemination portal to issue AMBER? Alerts–helping to potentially reduce response times from hours to minutes when it matters most.

Perhaps one of the most notorious missing children cases, 6-year-old Adam Walsh disappeared from a Florida shopping mall in 1981. His parents, John and Revé Walsh, immediately turned to law-enforcement agencies to help find their son. To their disappointment, there was no coordinated effort among law enforcement to search for Adam on a state or national level, and no organization to help them in their desperation.

An article from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children sums up the situation saying, “The tragedies of these children and others exposed a fundamental flaw. There was no coordinated effort between federal, state, and local law enforcement; no national response system in place; and no central resource to help searching families. When it came to handling missing-children cases, the United States was a nation of 50 states often acting like 50 separate countries.”

In 1979, 6-year-old Etan Patz disappeared from a New York street corner on his way to school. His story captivated the nation. His photo, taken by his father, a professional photographer, was circulated nationwide and appeared in media across the nation and around the world, causing Etan became the poster-child for the new movement.

Because of Adam, Etan and numerous other children, President Ronald Regan proclaimed May 25 National Missing Children?s Day in 1983.

National Missing Children?s Day is a reminder to all parents and guardians of the need for high-quality photographs of their children for use in case of an emergency. For this end, AmberAlert.com went a step further to create My Child ID and corresponding software for parents to use as a proactive tool to securely store, encrypt, and organize vital child medical and identification data in cases of medical emergencies and missing children cases.

You can help by looking at photographs of missing children and reporting any information to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children’s toll-free Hotline: 1-800-THE-LOST.

According to Grandparents.com:

• There are more than 70 million grandparents in the United States.
• 60% of grandparents live close to their grandchildren.
• 75% of grandparents are online.

Many grandparents provide child care for their grandchildren, whether they are occasional babysitters or provide regular care for working parents. In fact, a recent study showed 72% take care of their grandchildren on a regular basis. This means it?s even more important for grandparents to be up-to-speed with the grandkids? medical and identification data so they can provide law enforcement and medical responders with the most recent, up-to-date information quickly in the event of an emergency.

Grandparents don’t always have the luxury of knowing the “ins” and “outs” about their grandkids’ medical and identification history. Unfortunately, this puts them at a disadvantage because so many of them spend a significant amount of time care giving and need to act fast when faced with an emergency.

My Child ID from AmberAlert.com is the first comprehensive device that stores and encrypts vital child identification data to help in missing person cases and medical emergencies, helping grandparents stay proactive when it comes to safeguarding their grandchildren.

In the form of a key chain, or available as a simple download to the computer, My Child ID stores and organizes your grandchildren?s vital information so you and emergency responders can have key info instantly. Unlike a typical USB device or computer document, My Child ID is secured using SHA 1 encryption, designed by the National Security Agency (NSA). It also features Private Alerting and Geo-Analytics to allow families to develop a list of trusted contacts that can be texted or emailed at a moment?s notice.

Information stored includes:

• Vital stats (Height, weight, eye and hair color, etc.)
• Previous medical conditions
• Family history
• Blood types (Cross matches for entire family)
• Allergies / medications
• Pharmacy information
• Important contacts and more

Now grandparents can have peace of mind when they spend time with their grandchildren, prepared for any emergency with the help of AmberAlert.com!

Today we observe AMBER Alert Awareness Day to bring public awareness to the AMBER Alert program, and to increase public participation in safely recovering missing children.

This year, Mark Rollins helped commemorate the day in a great article on Coolest-Gadgets.com, “Commemorate AMBER Alert Day with My Child ID.”

What does My Child ID have to do with AMBER Alert Awareness Day?

AmberAlert.com is engaged in the continual development and improvement of the most innovative technology for safeguarding children and families. For this reason, they created My Child ID to give parents peace of mind, allowing them to safely secure and organize their child’s vital identification data–and have it ready for emergency responders at a moment’s notice.

Mark agrees saying, “As a parent, the idea of one of my children disappearing scares the living daylights out of me. However, there is a product out that can give, as it says, ?Peace of Mind.”

The My Child ID device is in the form of a key chain, and allows family members to create several profiles that take up 128 MB. Information stored includes: digital photos, vital stats (height, weight, eye and hair color, etc.), previous medical conditions, family history, blood types (cross matches for entire family), allergies, medications, pharmacy information, emergency contacts and more.

“So in a situation where a missing child is found with this My Child ID, it will speed up the process of contacting the family taking taking care of any special medical needs.”

As of January 7, 2010, the AMBER Alert Program was directly responsible for the safe recovery of 495 children!

Be sure to check out Mark Rollins’  full Coolest-Gadgets article, ?Commemorate AMBER Alert Day with My Child ID.?