Help Find Maddy Harris – How You Can Help!
[Update: Maddy Harris was FOUND on June 9. THANK YOU to everyone who helped bring her home!]
Thank you to Jennifer Tobias for collecting all the information into one post. Please contact her on Facebook if you have additional questions about how you can help.
How To Help Find Maddy Harris:
I am writing this to put it all in one place. There are many ways you can help find Madeline Price Harris (Maddy Harris).
I hope this helps! I know that a lot of people want to help but aren't sure how… Please do what you are able to and are comfortable doing! Every single little thing makes a HUGE difference!
Friend the profile Helpfind MaddyHarris:
Friend the profile Helpfind MaddyHarris:
Like the community:
Attend the events:
Join the group:
Follow the YouTube Channel:
Donate to the Reward Fund
We have started a donation pool to provide a reward for anyone providing information leading to the safe return of Maddy to her parents. You can donate using the button here. Also, you can copy the button code and paste it to your own blog or website:
Sign the petition to the media:
Write emails to the media: (scroll down for a sample letter)
Print & Put up fliers: (I keep a bunch in my car along with tape, tacks, and a staple gun)
*I have been adding a personal message in bottom right hand corner with a sharpie:
"Maddy Please call home 867-9387 Your family loves and misses you!"
Make one of her pictures/fliers your profile pic until she is found.
A quick and easy way to help, spread awareness and show her family support!
Add her family's # to your cell: (enabling you to call them right away if you see her)
"Maddy Please call home 867-9387 Your family loves and misses you!"
Make one of her pictures/fliers your profile pic until she is found.
A quick and easy way to help, spread awareness and show her family support!
Add her family's # to your cell: (enabling you to call them right away if you see her)
Text/e-mail/phone others asking them to help!
Even just one, even just once!
Look for her and put up posters as you go about your daily activities!
Easy to do and no inconvenience at all!
Share the petition, her profile and the other pages!
Just click share and post… so quick and easy!
Click "like" on Facebook and comment on all the posts that others make about Maddy!
The more comments and likes the more it stays current and in "top news"! More people will see!
Sample e-mail to send the media:
(can be used as a template and just add your own name at the bottom or edit and tweak to make it your own)
Even just one, even just once!
Look for her and put up posters as you go about your daily activities!
Easy to do and no inconvenience at all!
Share the petition, her profile and the other pages!
Just click share and post… so quick and easy!
Click "like" on Facebook and comment on all the posts that others make about Maddy!
The more comments and likes the more it stays current and in "top news"! More people will see!
Sample e-mail to send the media:
(can be used as a template and just add your own name at the bottom or edit and tweak to make it your own)
To Whom It May Concern,
The community of Olympia and many across the nation and world now are working tirelessly to help find missing teen Maddy Harris. We have been blasting her pictures, info and story all over Facebook and the internet. We have posters up all over our community and the world. Several local businesses have stepped up and printed out hundreds of posters and made them available free to any who want to put them up. KAOS 89.3 is making PSA's about her. We have started a petition appealing to the media to please join in our search. She has been missing since May 7, 2011. Myself and countless others have spent hours upon hours and logged many miles walking and driving to put up posters and look for Maddy.
Her father's birthday was yesterday (May 25) and he is devastated. Her whole family is heart broken and are personally following up on leads. I am writing on behalf of Maddy, her family and thousands of your viewers/readers/listeners. Please hear our heartfelt plea. Please run a story about Maddy. If you are bound by policies regarding reporting on runaways then we ask that you try the story from a different angle. Perhaps a human interest piece about how our community has united and is making use of the internet and social networking sites. Anything you can do to get her pictures and story out there.
Ask that if someone is keeping her from contacting her family and friends that they allow her to do so… or better yet, to come home. Ask that if she is staying away and not contacting them by her own choice that she just contact someone and just let them know she's ok. From the moment she walked out her door, anything could have happened to her. I am saddened by the seeming apathy and dismissive attitude towards runaways. If there is anything that can be done, any way that a story can be aired I beg you to please do something!
Facebook Profile made by her family:
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002457452232Facebook Community a family friend started because the family had maxed out their "add friend requests":
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Help-FIND-Maddy-Harris/100961359993544Facebook Event started by another family friend to rally the community the first weekend and get as many people as possible out there looking, putting up posters and sharing the links/info/pictures on-line:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=144574325613939Facebook Event started by local business owner to rally local businesses and their customers to spread awareness and get people out there just like the other event:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=145495945523323Facebook Group started by a girl who's best friend is friends with Maddy. She was heartbroken to see her best friend so upset over Maddy being gone and created this group to try to help.
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_154361321297453On-line petition started by their neighbor to ask the media to help us find Maddy:
http://www.thepetitionsite.Washington State Patrol PDF Missing Child poster:
http://www.wsp.wa.gov/crime/docs/mischild/Harris_Madeline.pdfGoogle search results of "Madeline Price Harris Olympia":
http://a-mc.us/lGCWSdMaddy and her family do need to resume their lives once she is home safe and do what work needs to be done to facilitate the healing that is needed. I do ask that this is treated with respect and care towards a positive outcome.Please contact her family at: 360.867.9387 (Jeff and Kelly Harris)Thank you for taking the time to read this e-mail and look at the links. We appreciate any and all support!Sincerely,(your name here)
And also (added by me): please reblog this post or post links to it wherever you can.
