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TAKE ROOT PUBLICATIONS
 

Take Root's GREY PAPERS
We call these "gray papers" as opposed to "white papers" to acknowledge that, from the child's perspective, little about family abduction is as black and white as the parents on the opposing ends (and even policy-makers and service professionals) sometimes try to make
it out to be.

Re-Framing Family Abduction

How Children Experience Abduction

Why Parents Abduct

The Myth of the Magic Bullet
When the Dangerous "D" is True : Family Abduction in the Wake of Domestic Violence

Towards a Typology of Family Abduction : Four Categories of Meta-Awareness

 
 

KID GLOVES FOR HANDLING ABDUCTED CHILDREN
Take Root's national project initiative to reform how "recoveries" of abducted children are enacted.

Section I of the multi-media training guide. Composed entirely in the firsthand words and voices of former abducted children.
Section II of the multimedia training guide, "A Child-Centered Overview"

Re-Framing Recovery: An Overview of Kid Gloves for Handling Abducted Children

Kid Gloves for Left-Behind Parents Handling Abducted Children
 
 

VIDEOS

Being Missing
an eleven minute video featuring Take Root members discussing what it means to be
an abducted child.

Family Abduction : How Bad Can it Be?
a three minute video featuring Take Root members addressing the myth that children taken by a parent or family member are not abused or endangered.

Missing Heather
join Take Root member Rebekah on a journey to re-claim her childhood and abduction identity.

Helping Missing Children Recover
a three minute video featuring Take Root members explaining Take Root's programs
and objectives.
 
 

THE MISSING SIDE COLLECTION
Artistic and literary expressions of abduction by the former abducted children participating
in Take Root 
Visit the collection
 
 

WEBINAR TRAINING
Coming soon

 
 

THE CRIME OF FAMILY ABDUCTION
Take Root Executive Director Liss Haviv played a large role in authoring this book published by the Department of Justice in 2010, with input from members and staff of Take Root.

ABSTRACT: Authored by survivors of family abduction, this publication provides the searching family, law enforcement, and mental health professionals with strategies to build a comprehensive, child-centered approach to recovery and healing. This publication dispels the prevailing misconceptions surrounding family abduction by providing a firsthand account of the psychological trauma and physical dangers often faced by children who are abducted by family members. The booklet includes strategies to help parents searching for their children to cope with the aftermath of the abduction and provides suggestions for assisting the child during the transition from abduction to life after he or she has been recovered.

Get .pdf here

 
OTHER
~ OPB Radio Reports on Parental Abduction and Take Root
Also see The Grotto, our Family Abduction Issue Literature Library

 

 

 


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