PEACE4 THE MISSING

          You have a loved one in your family who is missing, whether for one day, one month, one year, or for many years. You are suffering the emotional, mental and even spiritual anguish of not knowing where your loved one is. You know that the well-meaning people in your life want to help and support you but they don't have a clue as to what you are going through. You are frustrated with the professionals who are being paid to help you and how it is taking so long to get the answers needed to provide resolution for your family and you. You know you are expected to be strong but there are times that you want to scream and you sometimes wonder if you can go on, if this nightmare will ever end. Yet you are firmly resolved to keep fighting until that loved one is back home;
         You are enduring, or are a survivor of, abuse, any of the many forms that abuse can take, whether physical, mental, emotional and/or financial abuse. You often wrestle with fear, anger, depression, shame, and desperately need to talk about what you are or have suffered and yet you wonder if anyone will ever understand or even believe you;
         You are a victim of a crime or have a loved one who is; for you or that loved one, there may still be no answers, no arrests, no justice and no peace or resolution because your case remains unsolved, whether this crime is of a violent or "nonviolent" nature. You live with the ongoing mental, emotional and even spiritual torment of knowing that you have suffered horrifically but the person (s) responsible for the nightmare you and your family are enduring is not being held accountable for it. You, too, want to scream and sometimes wonder if you can go on but you are bound and determined to keeping fighting for your answers;
          You simply want to help out of your concern and compassion for those in pain and gratitude for how you have been helped in your time of need and  you want to give back with no selfish agenda;

          There is an ideal place that wonderfully fulfills that needs or desires of those of the many of us who fit into one or more of these categories. You can find this resource at a social networking site called PEACE4 THE MISSING. It is easy to sign-up and become a  member, even though some screening will be done to protect existing Members from anyone with a selfish or harmful agenda. Even for nonmembers, this site is easy to search and navigate and if you are a Member, it will prove an uplifting experience. If you have a missing loved one and are seeking support, a forum to raise awareness for your loved one, a place to vent and to be yourself with no fear of being judged, this is the best place that I know of for you when you want support and connections with others who are also living your nightmare. You can connect with other familes as well as with survivors and advocates who are pre-screened. This is the one place where families rule and are made the center of everything that is done online and offline by PEACE4 Members. You can be as active as you want and share as much as you want but if you are shy or are reluctant to talk because of an ongoing investigation, there is no pressure on you to participate or share.
          If you yourself are a missing person because you have been abducted or trafficked earlier in life or have run away or for any other reason and you are looking for your family, this site is for you. You will find Members in your situation and be able to connect with them. There are a number of living, unidentified people who, for various reasons, live without their names and are seeking their families. Many of the Members are survivors and advocates who want to redeem their experiences by helping others and "pay it forward" by giving back, knowing how they themselves have been helped. Many are still being victimized and are seeking support as they work though their situations.
          The proposed legislation called "Billy's Law," created by Janice Smolinski, whose son Billy has been missing for seven years, is the heart and soul of this site. It is related to the site called NAMUS (National Missing and Unidentified Person's System) which is a govenment-sponsored database. PEACE4 provides all the information, resources and helpful links needed for families to make the best use of these means in their searches for their missing loved ones. Many PEACE4 Members are activists seeking to make Billy's Law mandatory in all 50 states. PEACE4 educates the public thoroughly about missing people, the issues surrounding them and about the how and why of people turning up missing or unidentified. PEACE4 educates the public about NAMUS and Billy's Law and empowers the public about how to raise awareness about these resources to bring missing/unidentified people home and to solve crimes.
          The Members of this site care deeply about ALL Missing persons and their families.  However, because of the inadequate resources available to families with adult missing loved ones or whose loved ones are among the "cold case missing" of ANY age, many families who are Members have adult missing loved ones. PEACE4 Members will post verified AMBER ALERTS and missing children cases for Member families who have missing children. PEACE4 realizes that families of missing children have more resources than families of missing adults, including The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and therefore more public awareness. Yet ANY family with a missing loved one is warmly welcomed into this community of people who care about each other and where drama and bullying don't exist.
          Thank God, I do not have a missing loved one but if this ever happened to my family and me, this would be the best place for us to be. You can check out the site, get the feel for how it works and sign up to join:

http://peace4missing.ning.com/  PEACE4 THE MISSING  site

http://namus.gov/  NAMUS database website

http://helpfindthemissingact.blogspot.com/   blogspot for Billy's Law