1. Keeping Maine Children Safe By Andrea Doughty & Samantha Lyons

Advocate :

To Support; Be In Favor Of 2. Our Mission Statement Our projects intended mission is to bring an existing non-profit organization that helps to identify lost and missing children, to an annual event held in Millinocket on December 3 rd2011.The MECHIP or Maine Child Identification Program advocates for parents and children by creating individual packet of specific and detailed information about each child.The safety record includes: fingerprints, pictures, DNA cheek swab and a video interview.Our main goal is to bring MECHIP to the Millinocket community for the first time and give parents this wonderful opportunity.We hope to raise awareness of MECHIP and child safety, and for every child to get their identification record.We feel that getting this organization here will help spread the word to families through out Maine.Something that is free and as important as child safety should not be overlooked.The records may never prevent a child from going missing but they could certainly prevent them from never being found. 3. A Few Facts

Each year over 100,000 children are reported missing in the United States. Since 1982, the number of missing children has increased by 468% Most abductions are a result of luring children to a vehicle rather than by force.

4. About CHIP

Designed to fight child abduction and help in finding a lost child. 5. 100% Free! 6. The Freemasons 7. Provide fingerprinting, DNA cheek swab, and videotaping services.

8.

Chose Venue

• Stearns H.S.

Made Contacts

• Lee Oliver - MECHIP 9. Chamber of Commerce

Our Journey 10. Flyers WentUp!! Millinocket E.Millinocket Medway 12. MillinocketLibrary 13.

Setting up the night before 14. 450 bags to fill 15. Hundreds of people 16. expected to attend

17. Event Day! 18.

Volunteers of MECHIP waiting for the Kids!

20. The CHIP Process

Registration 21. Free

Height 22. Pictures

23.

Fingerprints 24. ALL Ten 25. Digital

Video Interview

26.

Cheek swab forDNA collection

Making the ID cards 27. Gathering Material

28. The Complete ID Record

DNA swab 29. All ten fingerprints 30. 2 ID cards 31. CD

• Video 32. Prints 33. pictures

Parents receive : 34. Pictures! 35. Pictures! 37.

Us with Lee, his wife and their hairless cat!

38. A TOTAL SUCCESS!!! MECHIP came to Millinocket for the first time! 70children received their identificationrecords on December 3 rd2011 at Stearns High School in Millinocket! MECHIP was invited to return to Christmas in Katahdin next year and every year! We spread the word and parents continue to ask how they can get ID records for their children!