Founder of Saved In America Joseph Travers is joined by his son Joshua Travers, a police officer and case manager at Saved In America, on a Cloudcast Community Spotlight Broadcast to discuss the group’s role within their community and nationwide. The team is committed to helping assist law enforcement and parents to find missing, runaway or exploited children.

Why Finding Kids Quickly is Important

Stats reveal that at minimum, 30% of all runaways become victims of the sex trafficking or human trafficking industries. Therefore, it's immensely important to find these kids before the bad guys can implement their evil plan. The good guys at Saved In America are in a race against time to find these kids before the bad guys get them.

How Saved In America Works to Find Kids

Saved In America utilizes social media and various other digital networks to find kids who have run away. Many times, when a kid goes missing, it is the result of a grooming process online where the predator lures the kids away from their families, promising a better life or many other lies. Once the kid is away from the protection of their homes and loving families, they are then sold into the horrid life of human trafficking.

Intel is All Important

Once a family contacts Saved In America, the process of intelligence collection begins. The professional volunteers at Saved In America compose a comprehensive overview of everything relating to their particular case. This includes following breadcrumbs laid out through their social media activity, figuring out how the child was groomed and lured away from home and honing in on where they might be. Once their location is ascertained, Saved In America will alert law enforcement who will go in and recover the child.

Teamwork Makes the Dream Work

The process of finding a child takes many hours of attention considering ,seemingly minute details. Such attention to detail simply isn’t possible for an overworked and understaffed police department. Therefore, the recovery process is only made possible through the teamwork of both law enforcement and the professionals at Saved In America, like the Travers father/son team, who work tirelessly to find any of the around 300,000 lost, runaway and exploited children who go missing each and every year in America. #ChildSavedNotSold