Child Shield, U.S.A. TM NAMES NEW AGENT FOR AUSTIN, SAN MARCOS, AND SUROUNDING AREA

David L. Williams of Dale, Texas has recently been named asa new independant Registered Agent for Child Shield, U.S.A. TM, anational organization dedicated to the safety of America's children. Mr. Williams shares with Child Shield, U.S.A. TM 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.

David L. Williams of Dale, Texas has recently been named as a new independant Registered Agent for Child Shield, U.S.A. TM, a national organization dedicated to the safety of America's children. Mr. Williams shares with Child Shield,U.S.A. TM 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 can't happen to my kid" attitude. This very attitude may be one of the major contibutors to this national crisis. According to the Vanished Children's Alliance, every 40 seconds another child is missing or abducted. "we aren't doing our children any favors by pretending that these things don't happen", says Ellen Slockbower who, with her husband David, co-founded the Pennsylvania-based Child Shield, U.S.A. TM in 1990. "By keeping our children ignorant of these dangers, we are also keeping them vunerable. To educate them is to empower them", she says.

The primary goal of Child Shield, U.S.A. TM 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 occurance. In addition, the educational part of the Child Shield, U.S.A. TM service includes the unique Safety Seven poster and their Play IT Safe coloring and activity book. These proactive materials provide ongoing re-enforcement and help children to retain the important safety information they've learned. The suggested retail price for the complete child safety package is less than forty ($40) dollars and it includes two full years of coverage under their unique Videotape Registration Service at no additional cost.

The second goal of Child Shield, U.S.A. TM is to furnish parents and law enforcement agencies witha "one stop source" for invaluable assistance in disseminating information about a missing child and other aid in the recovery effort. Child Shield, U.S.A. TM is prepared to act immediately upon a child's disappearance by lending both local and far-reaching help to the child's family and to the police agency handling the investigation. Upon being notified of the disappearance of a registered child, Child Shield, U.S.A. TM 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 department's choice of any or all of the destinations included in the Child Shield, U.S.A. TM database. This unique database contains hundreds of law enforcement agencies, missing children's organizations, and national news media contacts. Child Shield, U.S.A. TM 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.'s 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.TM being notified of a disappearanc, hundreds of videotapes and posters bearing the image of the missing child can be on their way to all of the State Missing Children's Clearinghouses across America, the State Police in those states that don't have a clearinghouse, and the F.B.I. With the same speed, videotapes and posters can also be provided to a variety of missing children's organizations and the production departments of a growing number of nationall-syndicated and network television talk shows and news programs. Also, in addition to shipping one thousand free posters to the child's family overnight, Child Shield, U.S.A. TM is also capable of transmitting high-resolution missing children's posters to arrive at their destination within minutes.

As loving parents themselves, Child Shield's founders spent the 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 endevour and it is thier 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 youir children with Child Shield, U.S.A. contact David L. Williams, Registered Agent for Child Shield, U.S.A. TM at 512/636-2698 or davidlwms1@aol.com