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In 1983, President Ronald Reagan proclaimed May 25 as National Missing Children's Day. Each year the Department of Justice (DOJ) commemorates Missing Children's Day with a ceremony honoring the heroic and exemplary efforts of agencies, organizations, and individuals to protect children.
In 2000, Attorney General Eric Holder, then serving as Deputy Attorney General, presented the first annual National Missing Children's Day Poster Contest award at DOJ's Missing Children's Day observance.
The Missing Children's Day poster contest provides an opportunity for schools, law enforcement, and other community organizations to engage children and their parents in informative discussions about the problem of missing children and how to prevent it.
The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) extends its congratulations to Julianna Hinton, a fifth grader from Oak Grove Upper Elementary School in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and the winner of its 2011 National Missing Children's Day Poster Contest. This year, 43 states and the District of Columbia submitted their winning entries from among the thousands entered by fifth graders across the country.
The theme of this year's contest was "Bring our Missing Children Home." As can be seen in OJJDP's photo gallery of the 2011 state winners, each poster addressed that theme in a manner as unique as the child who created it.
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