HEARTBREAKING REALITY: Every day, thousands of kids vanish into a broken foster care system—torn from families, lost in bureaucracy, facing abuse, neglect, or worse. Trump's NEW Executive Order just dropped, demanding transparency, AI-driven fixes, and REAL support to rescue our children!

This isn't just policy, it's a LIFELINE for innocent lives! But it only works if WE make it. Dive into how PMC is leading the charge & how YOUR voice can save kids: open.substack.com/pub/17sog/p/...

With Community Support, We Can Do Much More The Executive Order sets a federal direction. Project Milk Carton is already building many of the tools and public intelligence functions this direction requires.

But to fully “shine light on the missing” and sustain meaningful accountability, we need community support and participation. Here’s how you can help. JOIN THE MOVEMENT NOW: Contact ceo@projectmilkcarton.org

Explore the Data – and Share What You Find Use the PMC platform to: projectmilkcarton.org Look up your state and county Examine: CPS investigation volumes Maltreatment reports Patterns of injuries and fatalities Missing children information Funding levels and how they align with results

Ask: Are children here safer or less safe than in neighboring areas? Are we seeing high risk with relatively high funding—suggesting deeper structural issues? Ask: Are children here safer or less safe than in neighboring areas?

Then: Share findings with: Your networks Local media Community and faith-based organizations Local and state representatives Information becomes power when it is widely understood.

Support PMC’s Work Financially PMC is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. To maintain and expand our intelligence platform, media arm, and investigative capacity, we need: Funding for: Data infrastructure and hosting Technical development Research and analysis Investigative operations

Donations—both one-time and recurring—help us: Integrate more data sources Enhance the precision of our tools Expand coverage and improve depth in more states and localities Your financial support enables us to keep shining light into dark corners of the system.

Contribute Skills: Technical, Research, and Investigative We welcome support from individuals with: Data and technical expertise: Data engineering Data science and analytics Visualization and UI/UX Policy and research skills: Interpreting CPS and foster care policies

Connecting legal and policy changes to observed outcomes Investigative experience: Private investigators Journalists OSINT researchers With these skills, you can help us: Improve the platform Deepen our analyses Conduct targeted investigations Turn emerging patterns into actionable knowledge

Connect PMC with Local Advocates and Organizations If you know: Child welfare advocates Organizations supporting foster youth or families at risk Journalists covering local CPS and foster care issues Faith-based and community groups trying to help families in crisis

Introduce them to Project Milk Carton We can: Provide localized intelligence to inform their work Help them understand the data behind the stories they see Supply objective, independent metrics they can use in advocacy and reform efforts PMC can be the data backbone that supports these partnerships.

Help Build Our Investigative Capacity on Missing Children Our Investigation Team focuses on: Locating missing children Connecting dots across jurisdictions Identifying patterns in where and how children disappear from care

We will need: Investigators Researchers People with knowledge of local systems and communities By helping PMC expand this team, you are directly contributing to efforts that can: Help bring missing children home Expose systemic vulnerabilities that allow children to disappear

Turning Policy Into Protection This Executive Order signals that, at the federal level, there is recognition that child welfare and foster care systems must: Use data more intelligently Focus on outcomes, not just paperwork Support youth beyond age-out Engage a broad range of partners

Project Milk Carton is already building the independent intelligence infrastructure needed to make those goals real—and to hold systems accountable when they fall short. We are here to: Expose failures Track funding Illuminate risk Educate the public Investigate the missing

With community support, we can expand this work, sharpen it, and ensure that no child—and no systemic failure—remains hidden in the dark data. If you believe America’s children deserve more than a broken system and invisible failures, we invite you to stand with us: