Community United Effort also known as (CUE) Center for Missing Persons, a 501c3 tax exempt non-profit organization, founded in Wilmington, North Carolina, serving missing persons nationwide. Since 1994, our center has provided advocacy for missing children and adults, free professionally trained search personnel and victim support service. To date the CUE Center has helped more than 12,000 families in what is often the most confusing and desperate times of their lives.
ABOUT COMMUNITY UNITED EFFORT (CUE)
CUE MISSION
To join efforts with all concerned, seeking closure to tragedies as we remain in search of the missing
DESCRIPTION
Staffed entirely by volunteers the organization is funded by event fund raisers, small grants, corporate giving programs and public donations. CUE is a non-profit 501c3, tax exempt organization.
CUE OATH:
“I offer myself to those who have nowhere else to turn. These desperate people who ask for my help have unique situations. Yet, however unique, they are bound together with the commonality of being the loved one of a missing person.”
-Monica Caison
CUE OBJECTIVE:
To be an efficient help on the ground ready to aid a missing person case. Continue to seek and build a national network of dedicated volunteers for a wider reach for victim services. Achieving additional funding that would provide successful recoveries for more missing individuals. Gain more support from communities affected by someone who has vanished though awareness events and issues concerning victims left behind
CUE PURPOSE
Present a voice on behalf of those absent while defending victim rights. To be a reliable resource and support system for families that endure a missing loved one. Provide positive direction for communities in awareness campaigns for any age of a missing person. To educate the public concerning issues surrounding the lost, abduction, runaways, and other ways people vanish. Offer expert training concerning prevention and safety in the arena of those who disappear. Provide professionally trained volunteer personnel to law officials to conduct active search efforts to locate a missing loved one nationwide
ORGANIZATION OVERVIEW
Community United Effort (CUE) Center for Missing Persons was founded in Wilmington, North Carolina in September of 1994. CUE advocates for missing children and adults, providing free search and support services for missing person and communities nationwide. CUE offers a wide range of free services and to date has helped more than 12,000 families in what is often the most confusing and desperate times in their lives.
OUR FOUNDER
One of 11 children, Monica Caison grew up in Florida where her teen years were marked by a rebellious streak. At the age of 22, she even garnered a felony conviction for unknowingly passing stolen checks that a friend had given her. That life-changing lapse in judgment and the events that followed instilled in Mrs. Caison a desire to turn her life around and become a productive member of the community. Because Mrs. Caison had been exposed to the families of missing persons at least three times before she was 25, she decided to focus her attention on their plight, and she became a tireless advocate for missing people and their loved ones.
In 1994, Mrs. Caison founded the non-profit CUE Center for Missing Persons, which is focused on finding the missing, advocating for their causes, and supporting their families. Offering a wide range of free services, CUE has since helped more than 9,000 families in what is often the most confusing and desperate times of their lives. In addition to providing services for the missing and their families, CUE offers college internships and youth mentoring programs.
CUE is entirely donation funded and staffed by volunteers, including Mrs. Caison, who takes no salary from the organization. What was simply a dream, name and purpose, is now a nationally-recognized center that answers hundreds of calls for help each year. The CUE Center hopes to make a difference for everyone concerned with missing persons. Our belief is that we have.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS 2024
If you live in North Carolina or near by state and you are willing to travel to attend monthly board meetings; held the 2nd Tuesday of each month and are interested in serving on the Community United Effort – CUE Board of Directors we would love to have you join. Please click on the volunteer section on this site and submit your application check areas of interest, you will be contacted.
