MONTHLY CHILDFINDERS MEETING

STEERING COMMITTEE:  (12 Co-Leads for each main focus-area)
1.  Case-Management and Eform/Epoll Creation
2.  Communication of Case and Updates
3.  Volunteer and Team Networking
4.  Web-Site Case Updates
5.  New Volunteer Training Coordination
6.  Police, FBI, Interpol, local search parties Coordination
7.  External Expert Coordination
8.  Media Coordination 
9.  News and Police Case Tracking
10.  Accuracy and Clarity Evaluation
11.  Master-Matrix Admin including Documentation
12.  Master-Matrix Research

2005 GOALS:
1st Quarter:
  1.  Create and stabilize three teams a day (210 total volunteer units, 70 if each did 3 times a week)
  2.  Stabilize Steering Committee for timely and quality results
  3.  Certification parameters stabilized and contest for Certification emblem
2nd Quarter:
  1.  Media and speaking scheduled and opportunities
  2.  Local seminars and national conventions scheduled and attended with booth
  3.  Professional material available online for download in pdf for presentations
3rd Quarter:
  1.  Organization stabilized and 501c obtained
  2.  External Expert relations stabilized
  3.  Credentials for as many volunteer including Accuracy Certification as possible
4th Quarter:
  1.  ads for poster and DVD of children still missing over the holidays 2005 (usually 250 kids)
       with "These children may be in strangers' hands for the holidays,
       please help us help the authorities bring them home!"  www.childfinders.net
  2.  January ChildFinders Conference (first weekend in January in Tucson, Arizona)
  3.  ChildFinders book by group (each person does one chapter, publisher decides which ones to include)

IMPROVEMENTS AND VOTING:
Monthly meeting (improving process):
1.  Can always do any case your way and send it directly to authorities (privately, not officially as CF)
2.  Can suggest improvements on process in monthly meeting (email to Steering Committee at least 48 hours before meeting so they have time to consider it and you can have one minute in the meeting to support your suggestion; suggestions with you volunteering to follow-through or delegating to other volunteers are only considered).
3.  75% vote by 12 Steering Committee to implement (less than 75% can implement for now)
4.  75% vote by all volunteers for ratification
(for both voting, any one not responding to vote email within 48 hours will be considered voting for majority)

ANY CONFLICT:
1.  For the safety of the children, conflict is almost always handled personally between the two involved
2.  If needed, Steering Committee can privately vote to decide (as meeting item)
3.  If conflict is made public or delays a case by one minute, all involved are on probation
  1st time:  one day probation
  2nd time:  one week probation
  3rd time:  one month probation
CF supports everyone to work on cases individually and send them to the authorities privately.

SUGGESTED MEETING AGENDA (all items should be emailed to all Steering Committee 48 hours before meeting):
15 minutes:  monthly cases and results (up to 25 cases and usually 4+ for results so about 30 seconds each)
15 minutes:  update on area from each Steering Committee (1 minute each)
10 minutes:  improvements shared including team and volunteer networking (1 minute each)
10 minutes:  10 items for voting (1 minute each)
10 minutes:  next meeting agenda suggestions and anyone asking for assistance from others
Log of each meeting is kept on file and 1 hour time commitment including starting on time is kept strictly; anyone arriving late is considered listening only till invited to participate.
 

VANISHED-FINDERS and CRIME-SOLVERS are basically the same with
replacing these terms
ChildFinders:         Child; Abductor
VanishedFinders:   Adult;  Abductor
CrimeSolvers:  Criminal; Criminal