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If a member of your family was missing you'd go to the police and expect an official missing persons report to be taken and a search to be launched immediately. If the search went on for a while, you'd expect the media to be involved. You'd never imagine that a person could be missing and a wide-area search would not be launched... And yet, this happens every day-right here in the United States of America.

      According to the FBI there are approximately 109,968 Missing Persons reported in the NCIC database today.  Outpost for Hope research shows another undefined and often unreported as missing silent population of over one million persons; what we call The Missing, Missing. These are high risk adults as well as endangered children who are not listed as missing in the NCIC database and are often lost among the homeless. Outpost For Hope is the only organization that works with individuals and families as well as social service and law enforcement agencies to provide guidance, education, and recovery support of this off the grid population.

The causes and consequences of an unreported as missing child or adult are many. One common situation is when someone goes missing but his/her family is unsuccessful in obtaining an official missing persons report by law enforcement.  If  person ends up deceased, his/her remains might never be returned to a family because there is no way for a coroner to trace the unlisted as missing person's identity. It is also well known that sexual predators and killers target marginalized people who may not be noticed by society at large, such as homeless adults and children, runaways, and prostitutes. Outpost for Hope has identified 11 outcomes for unreported missing persons which are documented in the educational tool 'The Lost Highway' below. 

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