Community Outreach

NFSTC Community Outreach

The National Forensic Science Technology Center (NFSTC) provides no-cost goods and services to public crime laboratories.

The purpose of the NFSTC Community Outreach program is to:

• Inform forensic science service delivery agencies about NFSTC programs
• Support other organizations who support forensic science service delivery
• Gain input and feedback from the forensic science and law enforcement communities to assist in targeting our programs and services to their needs

• Outreach Newsletter
• Outreach Support for Missing Person Regional Training
• Outreach Support for Cold Case Regional Training
• Letter of Appreciation from California Association of Criminalists
• Host Forensic Science Community Events at NFSTC Facilities
• Learn More About NFSTC - NIJ Programs
• Outreach Stakeholder Support Feedback

Outreach Update Newsletter Now Available

Download 2007 Vol 1 NFSTC Newsletter

Download 2007 Vol 2 NFSTC Newsletter

Outreach Support for Missing Person Regional Training

NFSTC co-hosts Missing Person Regional Training with OJP - NIJ

• Conference East held in Clearwater Beach, FL (September 19-21, 2005)

  During the final day of the conference, several open cases were presented by investigators.
  Within weeks of the East offering, a cold case was solved.



• Conference West held in Denver, CO (November 7-9, 2005)
  
  

Missing Person Resources:

• National Center for Missing and Exploited Children - http://www.ncmec.org

• National Center for Missing Adults - http://www.theyaremissed.org/ncma/index.php

• International Center for Unidentified & Missing Persons - http://www.doenetwork.org

• Alzheimer's Association - Safe Return Program - http://www.alz.org/safereturn/
  
  
• Wireless AMBER Alerts - https://www.wirelessamberalerts.org/index.jsp
  
  
• Association of Missing and Exploited Childrens Organizations - http://www.amecoinc.org

Outreach Support for Cold Case Regional Training

NFSTC co-hosts Cold Case Regional Training with OJP - NIJ:

Conference held in Kansas City, Kansas (April 18-19, 2006)

An attendee of this conference, a Special Agent with the Wisconsin Department of Justice, Division of Criminal Investigation under the President’s DNA Initiative grant on cold case homicides, recently reported to the NIJ that an 18 year old cold case was solved.

Letter of Appreciation from California Association of Criminalists

Download letter in Adobe Acrobat format

Host Forensic Science Community Events at NFSTC Facilities

• Meeting and Training Rooms
• Laboratory Facilities and Instrumentation
• General

View a VIRTUAL TOUR of the NFSTC office and laboratory facilities.

View photographs of NFSTC facilities.

View NFSTC room layout options.

Learn More About NFSTC - NIJ Programs

Click here to view slideshow presentations, which were shared with various groups of external stakeholders.

Click here to view 2007 ASCLD Poster Presentations:

• NFSTC General Program Information
• Field Investigation Drug Officer (FIDO)
• Competency Validation Materials