A year after Child Find first got its start in Alberta in 1983, Child Find Saskatchewan was launched, meaning 2019 is its 35th year of operations. By the late 1980’s, there were Child Find offices across Canada, but that is no longer the case. Child Find Saskatchewan President Phyllis Hallatt says their office is the only full-time office left which includes awareness and prevention programs as well as helping legal parents and guardians in the search for their missing children.

There is a part-time office in British Columbia and one person in the Maritimes working on one case only. Some of the programs run through Child Find Saskatchewan are the “All About Me ID Clinic, which is an identification booklet that parents can give to police if their child goes missing, and ALERT Youth, which is an awareness program for youth between 9 and 18 years old.

Technology has changed the organization operates when it comes to public alerts about a missing child. Hallat says back in the 1980’s and 90’s, they used a fax machine and typewriter and would have to have a negative made from a picture, which would then be used to make more pictures to mail out to various police departments and other offices and businesses that would hang them up for the public to see. Now it’s a matter of getting a digital picture and emailing it to everyone.

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