Ocean Shores IGA -- Community Involvement -- Kidcare ID Kits

Kidcare ID Kits

We know that your children are the most important thing in the world to you. So keeping our Hometown Kids safe is a number one priority for us! That is why we plan our Emergency Preparedness Fairs, which includes offering Kidcare ID kits, free of charge, to any child under the age of 12.

These standardized kits may make the difference if your child is ever lost or missing. Endorsed by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Kidcare kits have contributed to the safe return of many children. Although the Polaroid kits are no longer available, the NCMEC offers the following, an excellent resource!

The kit contains pertinent info about your child: height, weight, hair color, eye color, distinguishing characteristics, as well as their fingerprints and a current photo. Law enforcement/Search and Rescue can use this information to help find and identify your child. Photos are taken so that they can be easily altered for age progression, making them invaluable if the child is missing for an extended period of time.

Kits are kept by the family in a safe place, and updated once a year with a new photo. In the event of an emergency, everything is available at a moment's notice, reducing the amount of time it will take to mobilize search efforts. The booklet also contains contact numbers for the NCMEC. Take these booklets on vacation with you; one family reported that they have even used these kits as identification for their children on vacation.

It also contains a list of 7 safety tips that every family should read and discuss together. It's a good idea to be proactive and make sure that your children have every resource to keep themselves safe. Make good family rules that will help them to avoid abduction. It is not a fun subject to think about....but knowing about it will help us to keep it from happening in our lives!

Ocean Shores IGA will be offering these kits at local Elementary Schools in the month of February 2005. If you have any further questions, you may contact Jody Cadle at 360-289-2496.

And despite the financial investment that this requires, as well as the donation of time by our staff and the Ocean Shores Police Department and the Grays Harbor County Sherriff's Department, we hope that these kits will NEVER be used. We would rather be safe than sorry, and we would be happy to have prepared, but never have a missing child in our area!

From the Polaroid website, Kidcare ID kits are described as follows:

Polaroid and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) have joined forces to create Project KidCare, a national child safety and standardized photo identification program. The heart of Project KidCare is the KidCare Photo ID, the only NCMEC-approved standard for child photo identification.

Accommodates a series of updated standardized instant identification photos, a child's vital statistics, valuable emergency information, and rules of safety

Nothing improves the chances of finding a missing child more than a current, high-quality photograph

1 in 7 recoveries are directly linked to the national photo distribution system

Standardized photo identification allows for computerized "age progression" in which the image of a child who has been missing for some time is digitally enhanced to show how the child currently looks

Each KidCare Photo ID contains the NCMEC's seven basic safety tips that can be discussed with children and their parents

Polaroid donates $0.10 per every ID purchased to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children


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