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This news release is to announce a new registered agent for Child Shield u.s.a. in the Houston, Texas area.

Child Shield, U.S.A. Names Local Agent

Child Protection Agency of Houston has recently been named as a new independent Registered Agent for Child Shield, U.S.A. ; a national organization dedicated to the safety of Americas children. Mr. Fred Benham shares with Child Shield, U.S.A. its goal of helping to prevent and recover lost, missing, abducted, and runaway children throughout America. According to the United States Department of Justice, these situations befall about one and one-half million children each year.

This statistic is as frightening as it is true. Unfortunately, far too many American parents have an It cant happen to my kid" attitude. This very attitude may be one of the major contributors to this national crisis. According to the Vanished Childrens Alliance, every 40 seconds another child is missing or abducted. We are not doing our children any favors by pretending that these things dont happen", says Ellen Slockbower who, with her husband David, co-founded the Pennsylvania-based Child Shield, U.S.A. in 1990. By keeping our children ignorant of these dangers, we are also keeping them vulnerable. To educate them is to empower them", she says.

The primary goal of Child Shield, U.S.A. is to reduce the alarming numbers of lost, missing, abducted, and runaway children in America. To this end, their child safety package provides an easy to follow educational program designed to empower parents and children with important knowledge that can help to prevent an unfortunate occurrence. In addition, the educational part of the Child Shield, U.S.A. service includes the unique Safety Seven poster and their Play It Safe coloring and activity book. These proactive materials provide ongoing reinforcement and help children to retain the important safety information theyve learned. The suggested retail price for the complete child safety package is less than $50. The service includes TWO full years of coverage under their unique Videotape Registration Service.

The second goal of Child Shield, U.S.A. is to furnish parents and law enforcement agencies with a one stop source" for invaluable assistance in disseminating information about a missing child and other aids in the recovery effort. Child Shield, U.S.A. is prepared to act immediately upon a childs disappearance by lending both local and far-reaching help to the childs family and to the police agency handling the investigation. Upon being notified of the disappearance of a registered child, Child Shield, U.S.A. will contact the investigating police department and offer assistance by duplicating identification videotapes and posters of the missing child and distributing them to the police departments choice of any or all the destinations included in the Child Shield, U.S.A. database. This unique database contains hundreds of law enforcement agencies, missing childrens organizations, and national news media contacts. Child Shield, U.S.A. will also send videotapes and posters to ANY additional destinations the investigating authorities may request. All at NO COST to the family or the police.

Child Shield, U.S.A. facilities enable them to duplicate more than one hundred videotapes and more than one thousand missing child posters per hour. Within hours of Child Shield, U.S.A. being notified of a disappearance, hundreds of videotapes and posters bearing the image of the missing child can be on their way to all of the State Missing Childrens Clearinghouses across America, and State Police in those states that dont have a clearinghouse, and the FBI. With the same speed, videotapes and posters can also be provided to a variety of missing childrens organizations and the production departments of a growing number of nationally-syndicated and network television talk shows and news programs. Also, in addition to shipping one thousand free posters to the childs family overnight, Child Shield, U.S.A. is also capable of transmitting high-resolution missing childrens posters to arrive at their destinations within minutes.

As loving parents themselves, Child Shields founders spent more than three years researching and developing their child safety program before they began marketing it nationally through independent Registered Agents in March of 1993. They have dedicated themselves fully to this endeavor and it is their sincere hope that with the growth of Child Shield, U.S.A. will come a reduction in the number of abducted and missing children in America.

For more information on how to protect your children with Child Shield, U.S.A. contact Child Protection Agency, Registered Agent for Child Shield, U.S.A.. at their website www.mysafechild.com , or by phone (281) 353-0203.