Publications
The NMPCC develops a number of publications to educate, inform and support families and friends of missing persons, police, professionals and the general public.
General
- Missing Persons - Myths and Facts (PDF, 486.7 kb)
- Missing Persons - Myths and Facts: Arabic
- Missing Persons - Myths and Facts: Chinese
- Missing Persons - Myths and Facts: Dinka
- Missing Persons - Myths and Facts: Korean
- Missing Persons - Myths and Facts: Vietnamese
- The PLEASE Policy Principles (PDF, 460.5 kb)
- General information for families and friends of a missing person (PDF, 393.2 kb)
Older people and dementia
- Missing persons and dementia (PDF 1MB)
- Missing persons and dementia: wandering (PDF 1MB)
- Missing persons and dementia: safer walking (PDF 1.6MB)
Missing persons and homelessness
- Missing persons and homelessness (PDF 1.6MB)
Missing persons and mental health
Young people
Using the media
- How can the media help you?: Arabic
- How can the media help you?: Chinese
- How can the media help you?: Italian
- How can the media help you?: English
- How can the media help you?: Somali
- How can the media help you?: Vietnamese
Search options
- Search options and support (brochure) (PDF, 1.2 mb)
- Search options and support (guide) (PDF, 346.3 kb)
Support
- Relationships Australia - Counselling Support
- What is a trigger? (PDF, 30.7 kb)
- Are you the parent of a sibling of a missing person? Fact sheet (PDF, 200.3 kb)
- Are you a sibling of a missing person? (PDF, 35.6 kb)
- Are you the extended family member of a sibling of a missing person? sheet (PDF, 369.1 kb)
Legal information
Education and training
- Supporting those who are left behind - A counselling framework to support families of missing persons (PDF, 1.4 mb)
- Are you working with a young person at-risk of going missing?
Research
- Trends and Issues Paper: Missing Persons in Australia (AIC, 2008) (PDF, 145.9 kb)
- Living in Limbo - The experience of International Parental Child Abduction (ISS 2005) (PDF 228kb)
- Missing persons in Australia (AIC, 2008) (PDF, 1014.2 kb)
- Missing Persons: Incidence, Issues and Impacts (AIC, 2000) (PDF, 62.4 kb)
- The Missing Person Dimension (AIC, 1999) (PDF, 41.1 kb)
- Missing People - Issues for the Australian Community (Australian Bureau of Criminology, 1999) (PDF, 332KB)
- Profiling Missing Persons within NSW (PDF, 93.8 kb)
- Churchill report: Leonie Jacques, BSW (Hons), DipHE (PDF, 141KB)
- Churchill report: Sarah Wayland (PDF, 113KB)
- Churchill report: Mark Samways (PDF, 124KB).
- Scoping a National Missing Persons Diversity Research Agenda