When it comes to good, everyone wins. This is for the humble neighbor who inspires more neighbors to lend a hand, turning ordinary citizens into an extraordinary community of good.

How better to reward them, than to give away $120,000 in gas prizes. This is the 2012 Fueling Good Program, where 24 charities will win gas throughout the year. Will one of them be your favorite?

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You can vote once a day, everyday until Feb 9th, 2012

Thank You for your support with HELPING IN THE SEARCH FOR THE MISSING

THEME 2012  ” In Support of the Journey “

Thursday, March 22, 2012

State Outreach Coordinators Meeting: Closed for directors 2:00 pm

Class Times: 6:00 pm

The Road to Becoming a Search and Rescue Technician

This class will be conducted throughout the conference and other than thursday evening will run with conference class schedules. If you take this class on “Thursday” you will be in this class only for proper certification. For details please call our center anytime.

Registration packets and check in: 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm and  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm

Note: The back half of the ballroom will remain open all day and evening for any participants to set up items, informational handouts, missing person information or visuals, table display, banners, etc. When checking into the conference please request the person in charge for this area to help you in whatever you may need for a smooth process.

Date: March 22nd – 25th of 2012

Join us for our upcoming national conference for missing persons and all who work in the arena from advocating, volunteerism, investigation, search and rescue and identification process of those who are lost. This event is open to all who support the mission of finding a resolution for families who have suffered a missing loved one and been left a victim of crime.

Please share this information to anyone in this line of work and or a family of a missing person or homicide victim. To learn more about CUE Center for Missing Persons please visit us at our web site www.ncmissingpersons.org or email us cuecenter@aol.com

NOTICE: (This conference is a pre – registration conference, ONLY) please contact our center for details

Download and print registration form below

    
Submit Registration: Mailing Address (CUE) PO Box 12714 Wilmington, NC 28405
Ph: (910) 343-1131 or (910) 232-1687 Fax: (910) 399-6137
Location: Holiday Inn Hotel Conference Center 5032 Market Street, Wilmington, NC 28405 (910) 392-1101

Note: CUE will arrange the hotel accommodations  for conference  registered attendees.

Want to become a sponsor?

Download and print forms above and mail them with with your check  payable to:
CUE Center For Missing Persons
PO Box 12714
Wilmington, NC
28405

Meet The 2012 Sponsors…more to come!

Training Sessions, Certificate Classes

Training: The Road to Becoming a Search and Rescue Technician

Patricia Totillo is a founding member of K-9 Search and Rescue of Orange City, FL. She has been involved in search and rescue for ten years. She has certified canines thru NAPWDA, NASAR, NSDA, NNDDA and L.E.T.S. She is a lead evaluator for NASAR and NSDA and has instructed at numerous seminars across the country.

The class is designed to provide knowledge concerning the general responsibilities, skills, abilities, and the equipment needed by persons who would be participating in a search or rescue mission. It provides a common starting point in training for the new person to search and rescue.

Focus will be on providing the necessary knowledge to pass the NASAR (National Association Search And Rescue) SARTECH III written exam. Persons who are interested in becoming involved with search and rescue operations.

Emergency response personnel who belong to organizations who provide resources and assistance during search and rescue missions.

Managers of emergency response organizations who want to understand the state-of-the-art skills and knowledge needed by the SAR workers.

Experienced SAR people who want to refresh their knowledge base.

This is the first step on your road to becoming a fully operational SARTECH II. Additional information will be provided to people who want to continue on this journey.

Training: Death Declaration & Power of Attorney and Missing Persons

Jenna Butler, her practice experience encompasses various areas of civil litigation in both the federal and state courts and before the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority. She advises clients and litigates cases involving all forms of commercial disputes, including contract breaches, trusts and estates litigation, insurance litigation, and securities litigation. Ms. Butler’s practice also involves representing and advising community associations, including litigating civil disputes on behalf of community associations and their members. Prior to joining the Firm, Ms. Butler practiced in Atlanta, Georgia, and from 1995 to 1996 served as law clerk to the Honorable Malcolm J. Howard, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of North Carolina.

Training: Document the Abuse

Susan Murphy-Milano is often praised as one of the most dynamic and engaging speakers of our day in the intimate partner violence prevention field.

As an expert in the area of intimate partner violence and the prevention of homicide, Susan has created specific tools and procedures which the abused need to safely leave a violent relationship.

Susan witnessed her father, a decorated Chicago Violent crimes Detective, brutally and violently attack her mother repeatedly. The words “if you leave I will kill you,” turned into reality the night Susan walked into her childhood home and found her mother murdered and her father in the next room dead from a self-inflicted gun-shot wound to the head. Susan vowed then, and has, since the murder-suicide of her parents, carved out a road making changes in the way the world looks at violence in and outside the home.

Susan uses humor, passion, and all her years of experience to motivate her audience to become more effective first responders, advocates and professionals in their work to stop family violence.

Susan’s quest for justice was instrumental in the passage of the Illinois Stalking Law and the Lauternberg Act. She has been prominently featured in newspapers, magazines, radio and television including: The Oprah Winfrey Show, Larry King Radio, ABC’S 20/20, Justice Files, E-True Hollywood, CNN, Sunday Today Show Profile, Women’s Day, Family Circle, US News and World Report to name only a few.

See more: http://imaginepublicity.com/clients/susan-murphy-milano/

Training: Sonar 2012, Improvements and Usage Deliveries

Chuck Elgin, Chief of North Carolina Underwater Response Team since 1991, NC Community College Instructor, Operations Chief in the county Emergency Management Operations Center, and am often called upon to utilize sonar in searches for missing people, mapping and bottom bathymetries thru out the South-East.

Speakers and Presentation

TOPIC: Gangs, Forgotten Youth and the Missing

Michelle Guarino earned a Bachelor of Social Work from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington and a Masters of Social Work from New York University. Michelle is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and has worked with gang affiliated / at-risk youth since 1996.

She worked as the Youth Intervention Counselor for the New Hanover County / Wilmington City Gang Task Force; a first of its kind position employing a civilian within a law enforcement entity to intervene with gangs, gang members and families. Michelle has received Gang Counseling Techniques training from the National Gang Crime Research, as well as, Primary Gang Specialist Certification.

Michelle has trained agencies such as ROCIC Gang Conference, NC Governor’s Crime Commission, National Gang Crime Research Center Gang Conference, Project Safe Neighborhoods, NC Parks and Recreation, NC Association of Substance Abuse Counselors, Camp Eckerd, The North Carolina University system, Department of Juvenile Justice and various law enforcement agencies.

Michelle has also worked as an outpatient therapist specializing in children and youth with a focus on adjudicated youth and gang affiliated youth. Michelle is co-author of Best Practices Manual: The Wilmington Youth Violence Intervention Program, New Hanover County Sheriff’s Office Lower Cape Fear Gang Task Force Assessment and “A Second’s Chance”- Gang Violence Task Force Prevention Program published in the American Surgeon journal. Michelle serves as the Director of Program Development for The North Carolina Gang Investigators Association and has assisted the association in implementing Gang Free NC.

Michelle currently serves on the Governor’s Gang Task Force as the Chair for the Intervention sub-committee. Past recognitions include; New Hanover County Human Relations Woman of the Year 2000, for program development and services provided to at-risk and gang affiliated youth. Recipient of the Walter Lawson NOBLE award and The Governors Crime Commission “Excellence in Juvenile Crime Prevention” award, as well as, recipient of the “Cape Fear Peace Prize” for contributions made to at-risk and gang affiliated youth.

Michelle is currently employed as the Gang Counselor/ Program Director for the New Hanover County Sheriff’s Office Gang Task Force. Michelle is also a part time instructor for the University of North Carolina at Wilmington School of Social Work.

TOPIC: Through the Window; The view from a “Crime Writer”

Diane Fanning is one of America’s premier Crime novelists and True Crime authors. At the top of a genre that often gets a rap in the literary world, Fanning brings esteem, doing due diligence when presenting a criminal case in book format.

At a young age, Diane had a brush with danger, coming close to being abducted, she became attuned to crime and wondered just what makes a criminal tick. What kind of questions could be answered for a child about the psychology of the criminal mind? The story of Krystal Surles and her part in ending the 20 year killing spree of serial killer, Tommy Lynn Sells, inspired Diane to write her first true crime book, “Through the Window,” an accounting of the courage and bravery of a 10 year old, not so much unlike herself.

Before writing her first true crime book, Fanning wrote for magazines,television, radio and ad agencies in Virginia, earning many awards, before she moved to Texas where her career in true crime blossomed, along with her work with several non profit organizations. She has served on the executive committees of the Writers’ League of Texas and the Heart of Texas chapter of Sisters in Crime and is also a member of Mystery Writers of America.

See more: http://imaginepublicity.com/clients/diane-fanning/

TOPIC: Bringing Jon Home; A father’s journey of loss and discovery

David Francis is president of the Jon Francis Foundation (JFF), a non-profit organization with the mission to provide support and empowerment to the families of people missing in the wilderness. The Foundation was created as a tribute to David’s 24-year-old son, Jon, who went missing in July 2006 while climbing the Grand Mogul in the Sawtooth Mountains of Central Idaho.

Authorities had abandoned their search for the young man after just two days, but David and his family refused to give up. They mobilized hundreds of volunteers who spent more than a year searching the wilderness.

David Francis is a retired Minnesota businessman, former nuclear submarine officer and retired U.S. Navy Captain with 30 years of naval service. His business experience includes several years with 3M and IBM and sales, marketing and management at five high technology startup companies in Minnesota.

David and his wife, Linda, live in Stillwater, Minnesota. They have been married for more than 40 years and have one son, Jon; three daughters, Robin, Jocelyn and Melissa; and six grandchildren, Taylor, Katie, Stephen, Audrey, Charlie and Camille.

David is the author of Bringing Jon Home – the Wilderness Search for Jon Francis. Bringing Jon Home is a national award winning inspirational memoir that tells the story of Jon’s remarkable life, sudden loss, and inspiring legacy and describes, in compelling detail, the long and relentless wilderness search for his son.

In 2010 The Minneapolis Star Tribune wrote, “David Francis has emerged as a leading advocate for missing adults.” Patty Wetterling, in the St. Paul Pioneer Press, commended his efforts by saying, “Francis’ work is invaluable. It’s not just his persistence; it’s his reasonableness… He’s solid…”

JFF received the 2011 Outstanding Support Award from the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension.

TOPIC: Exploring Human Identification

Midori Albert is a professor and forensic anthropologist in the Department of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW), where she joined the faculty in 1995. She received her doctorate degree in anthropology from the University of Colorado at Boulder (CU Boulder, 1995);her master’s degree in anthropology and bachelor’s degree in psychology are from the University of Florida (UF, 1993 and 1990).

Dr. Albert’s educational background involves human skeletal identification methods and techniques as well as an understanding and exploration of normal human skeletal variability. These specializations led her to link with colleagues in computer science, statistics, and mathematics, where her primary research focus since 2003 has been on adult age-related craniofacial morphological changes and their effects on computer automated face recognition technologies.

Together with her colleagues, Dr. Albert collaborates on research within the university’s newly established Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies in Identity Sciences (I2SIS). Students often actively engage in research learning opportunities with Dr. Albert as interests in human biometrics and identity recognition continue to evolve.

Victims Hours Presentations

“MISSING” Dori Meyers – Donajean Kapp

“MISSING” Alonzo Williams – Family Member

National Candle Light Service – Honorees

March 24, 2012 @ Riverfront Park, Downtown Wilmington Waterfront – 7:30 pm, the public is welcome
Mistress of Ceremony – TBA
Guest Speaker – David Francis  ”Living After Death”
Reading of the Poem Dedication - Sheree Justus
Vocal Tribute – TBA
National Prayer – Pastor Angie Davis
Unveiling of the Wall – Honoree Families
Service Dedication ~ In Loving Memory of TBA

Kirshonda Townsend – Mineral Wells, Texas

Michelle Haggadone – Leland, North Carolina

Our goal is to have the families register on this  site and share the name of their loved one as well as their family name and perhaps the story of their loved one who is missing. Our youth will be paired up with one family and every day throughout January they will offer the missing loved one and their family up in prayer.

Prayer is powerful and when we gather together in prayer miracles DO happen! The youth in or group are committed to making a difference in our world today and they know that prayer goes a long way in accomplishing this.

ARK stands for Acts of Random Kindness; that is how our youth feel the world will be changed, One Act of Random Kindness at a time! It is our hope as well that the youth participating will have a greater understanding of what is truly an epidemic in our country; missing persons.

Quarters For CUE

In addition to our prayer project, throughout the month of January 2012 those in our Youth Ministry Program ARK (grades 6-12) will be in attendance at all our Masses with jars collecting Money for CUE Center for Missing Persons. The jars will have the faces of those missing loved ones we are praying for on them in hopes of not just raising money, but awareness.

Our youth will speak at all the Masses in the beginning of January to let our parishioners know about our prayer project as well as our Quarters for CUE program in hopes of all joining with us in prayer as well as donating to our cause so that Cue Center can continue to do what they do so well, help those families with a missing loved one through advocacy, search and rescue, awareness campaigns, education and so much more!

The youth in ARK have been inspired by the stories of many families of the missing, their loved ones and all those like CUE and their founder Monica Caison and awesome volunteers who give of themselves freely to help others. They make a difference daily in our world and make it a better place to live in. They are the grace disguised on our journey and give us hope!

Visit Project Prayer For The Missing- Quarters for CUE,, HERE

DONATE TO QUARTERS FOR CUE

The Searcher-Monica Caison

The Searcher follows the case work and life of renowned Searcher and Advocate Monica Caison as she tirelessly dedicates her life to the Recovery of Missing Persons and gives support to the Families and Community directly involved. She works twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. The main hotline to the CUE Center goes directly to her cell phone, which she picks up no matter what.

Each week, the show will not only highlight a Missing Persons case file but will also take us on location – to see our Searcher team in action and give us a behind the scenes, fly-on-the-wall perspective of the one-woman powerhouse that Monica Caison is – on and off the search. She involves the Families of the Missing as well, giving a face and a heart outside of what’s strictly covered in the flash of media.

Monica and Heidi

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