POLLY KLAAS FOUNDATION
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Mission Statement
The Polly Klaas Foundation is a Petaluma, CA based, national nonprofit dedicated to the safety of all children, the recovery of missing children, and public policies that keep children safe in their communities. Since 1993 we have helped over 9,300 families to find their missing children and bring them safely home. Our hotline is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. We never close. Most recently we renovated a 100-seat Theater to honor Polly's life and her love of performing arts. In the first 12 months we hosted over 70 live performances, and 100 rehearsals, engaging thousands of community and youth groups. Your donation helps us with our core mission of finding missing children and keeping children safe. If you would like to support the theater, please make a note to designate your gift to the Theater. You can also visit the theater website at www.PollyKlaasTheater.org
About This Cause
Organizational Structure: Established in December of 1993 as a Petaluma-based national non-profit 501 c 3 Federal Tax ID#68-0314615 Volunteer Board of Directors (currently 11) Board Emeritus (2 Polly’s mother, Eve Nichol and founder, Gary Judd, in memory) How do we help find missing children? • Families and guardians of missing children along with law enforcement and social service agencies contact our 24 hour hotline. o As long as a family or guardian has reported their child missing to Law Enforcement we are able to open a case for that missing child. • We create a missing child flyer and send hundreds at a time to the families for distribution. • We have thousands of individual volunteers and businesses who also help us to post the flyers and keep an eye out for missing children across the country. o Flyers work and are responsible for helping to bring a majority of missing children back home. • We work with the family to learn everything possible about the missing child o We research their facebook and social media history o We research what was going on in their lives at the time of their disappearance o We look for that child on other social media pages to determine if they might be sex-trafficked and listed on “escort service” pages • We handle approximately 300 missing child cases each year Types of Cases • Stranger Abduction 1% • Family Abduction 14% • Endangered Runaways 85% o Of these endangered runaways one in seven will become the victims of sex-trafficking How do we help families of missing children? • We provide hope and support to families of missing children 24 hours a day / 7 days a week. Law Enforcement may not have the time to work with many of these families and provide case-management on these missing children, especially on runaway cases. • The Polly Klaas Foundation’s Response Department handles each case with dedication and care, no matter what the circumstances are surrounding that child’s disappearance. • Case management includes discussing with the family or guardian circumstances surrounding the disappearance of that child, researching their social media history, looking at social media sites to see if that child appears on escort service pages, making phone calls to law enforcement to advocate for the family, coordinating with law enforcement to bring the child safely home, working with the family as long as they need our services, sometimes this is for decades. Other Services • Child Safety Kits are available by mail or in PDF format online at www.pollyklaas.org o PKF’s child safety kits are considered one of the best of its kind in the nation and was updated and reprinted in 2014. We offer them at no charge. • Referrals of other support services a family may need or a child may need once they are returned home • Foundation staff is available to speak about child safety at public events and to civic groups. Legislation • PKF is largely responsible for implementing the Amber Alert System in all 50 states • PKF was invited to weigh in on legislation in 2014 and 2015 regarding the sex-trafficking of minors, more specifically how to ensure minor victims of sex-trafficking are not treated as criminals Budget • Of the annual budget service categories can be broken down into the following percentages o 53.5% case management, rapid response coordination and working with families of missing children o 25% safety kits and child safety education o 10% outreach and administration o 5% legislation o 3.5% 24 hour hotline / phones o 3% missing child posters/printing For more information please contact Executive Director, Raine Howe 707-769-1334