Return US Home

It's been a while since we've shared an update with you and it's mostly because we've just been so busy behind the scenes! In addition to supporting another family to reunification from an abduction to Lebanon, our Executive Director, Edeanna Barbirou, has spent this summer participating in the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children's Hope Awards; an National Criminal Justice Training Center roundtable discussion for families of missing and abducted children; the The United States Department of Justice 2019 National Missing and Exploited Children's Day ceremony; and, a special training for Team HOPE volunteers (a peer support group of parents of children who are missing or have been exploited who help others experiencing the same or similar trauma). Oh, and we spent a few weeks toiling away to submit our first federal grant proposal and continue our efforts to secure the necessary funding to support Return US Home's efforts, full time.

Here are a few photos of some of our activities as of late.

We hope to reinvigorate our social media presence and begin updating the website again soon!

Thank you for your continued support and engagement to learn and educate others about Parental Child Abduction and remedies for its prevention!

RUSH Summer 2019

Our Executive Director, Edeanna Barbirou had the opportunity to sit down with Scott Renner, Director, Office of Children's Issues at the Department of State to discuss both the prevention and response programs that his office provides in cases of international Parental Child Abduction (PCA). Listen in to this important interview and learn how an international abduction can literally be stopped in progress!

Interview with Scott Renner, Director, Office of Children's Issues In its most recent incidence study of missing children, the Department of Justice (DOJ) indicated that an estimated 200,000 to 230,000 children are abducted ...