Technical Assistance

The AMBER Alert Training and Technical Assistance (T&TA) Program provides technical assistance training and services to Federal, state, local and tribal law enforcement agencies as well as other key AMBER Alert stakeholders to increase collaboration, improve skills, and develop effective policies and practices to protect and safely recover missing, endangered, and abducted children.

Through Technical Assistance Services, we work with the requester(s) to:

  • Identify a problem
  • Address a problem already identified
  • Provide an objective evaluation of a problem
  • Develop /introduce a new program
  • Address a sensitive issue that needs an impartial outside perspective
  • Aid in examining the effects of a new statute, such as the Adam Walsh Act, policy or procedure

The AMBER Alert Training and Technical Assistance Program offers three types of Technical Assistance Services:

  1. Limited technical assistance involves working with AMBER Alert staff to locate information, materials, or a resource person who can supply information related to specific questions and/or issues.
  2. Moderate technical assistance involves the AMBER Alert staff working closely with the requester to determine the exact nature of the issue to assess whether or not more significant issues or problems exist which require further information and/or brief telephone consultation with knowledgeable resource persons.
  3. On-site training and/or long-term technical assistance is needed when the requester(s) and the AMBER Alert staff/consultants determine that the issues are significant and may require direct contact with AMBER Alert staff/consultants and/or subject matter experts.

We also offer Technical Assistance-Based Onsite Trainings which allows an agency/department to partner with us in bringing one of our AMBER Alert courses to a specific area and group of participants. Complete details on the requirements for the hosting agency are outlined in the Technical Assistance Training Request form:

  • Basic Forensic Response to Missing and Abducted Children
  • Canvassing, Search, and Recovery Strategies for Abducted Children
  • Child Abduction Response Team (CART) Training
  • Child Abduction Response Team Certification
  • Investigative Strategies for Missing and Abducted Children (ISMAC)
  • Leadership for Missing and Abducted Children (LMAC)
  • Specialized Investigative Techniques in Child Abduction Cases (SITCAC)
  • AMBER Alert Broadcast and Media Training
  • Mock child abduction scenario planning and evaluation

 

Technical Assistance—
Training Request Form

Choose this option if you are looking for AMBER Alert training which can be delivered in your area to a targeted group, and which may be customized to best fit your needs.

Technical Assistance—
Service Request Form

Choose this option if you are looking for other types of technical assistance, such as, a presenter to speak at your event, need assessments, problem analysis, resource identification, request publications, and more.

Technical Assistance—
Training Academy Request Form

Choose this option if you are looking for AMBER Alert training which can be delivered at a training academy, to a targeted group which may be customized to best fit your needs.