Booth Volunteer: Staff a booth at a health fair, festival or mall while handing out child identification kits and abduction prevention information. These events occur across the Greater Houston Area typically on Saturdays.

Special Events Volunteer: Work at one of Texas Center for the Missing’s fundraising events. Each year, we host a Champagne Brunch on a Sunday in April and a Charity Golf Tournament on a Tuesday in October.

These opportunities may be performed from Texas Center for the Missing's Office
or from your own home or workplace.

Phone Volunteer: Call businesses and other prospective community partners to promote our programs and/or secure contact names, mailing addresses, phone/fax numbers, and E-mail addresses.

Mailing Volunteer: Fold letters, stuff envelopes, and put on labels, for invitation and newsletter distributions, as well as information packets for educational programs.

Spanish and Vietnamese Translation Volunteer: Translate Texas Center for the Missing safety information flyers and presentations to help the diverse communities in the Greater Houston Area.

These opportunities may only be performed after specialized training
is provided by Texas Center for the Missing.
Please contact Melissa Hulin Turnquist at 713.314.3673 or mturnquist@tcftm.org
to schedule a training date.

The Presenter’s Training is designed to train volunteers to present the Missing Child Awareness, Prevention, and Education Program in group settings. The project's objective is to establish a cadre of trained volunteers to positively impact the missing child issue by:

• Raising awareness of the problem
• Providing information on ways to lessen the problem
• Providing the instructions needed to report, and assist in the search for, missing children.

Volunteer Presenters:
1) will attend a two-hour training.
2) will agree to provide a minimum of two, one-hour presentations in the year following their training. Please note that in some cases presenters will need to secure presentation locations and dates on their own due to scheduling conflicts with staff availability.

Presenters and Trainers will be those comfortable speaking in front of groups and those who are passionate about children's safety.

S.A.F.E. Child Puppeteer
The S.A.F.E. Child Puppet Show requires 3 individuals to perform child safety puppet shows for groups of 20 to 100 children. The performances are 15 minutes in length and typically take place Monday through Friday between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m.