Wisconsin Missing Persons Advocacy is a 501(c)(3) non profit organization. Our mission is to raise awareness for the Missing by bringing them a voice and supporting the families who are affected by working together to advocate for the Missing. It will also work to provide educational and informational activities to increase public awareness and to increase public knowledge of prevention measures.
Wisconsin Missing Persons Advocacy was officially established in August of 2017. The founder, Marsha Loritz, began her mission to raise awareness for the missing in January 2015, after her own mother, Victoria Prokopovitz who had been missing since April 25, 2013, when she wrote a letter asking to have a Missing Persons Awareness Day declared in the state of Wisconsin. Governor Scott Walker, declared April as Missing Persons Awareness Month, and it has been declared every year in the state of Wisconsin ever since. It has also been recognized as Missing Persons Awareness Month in the City of Green Bay for the last several years, as well as in the County of Brown County. Marsha has worked with Green Bay Area Crime Stoppers and The Brown County Sheriff’s Department to hold awareness events and has worked with a Lamar Advertising to hold a Billboard campaign to raise awareness during the entire month of April in and around NE Wisconsin and the Milwaukee Area for the pas several years.
2 of our board members have personal experience with having a missing loved one (short term missing and long term missing) and understand the emotional trauma that having a missing loved one has. Wisconsin Missing Persons Advocacy is not a search team and does not perform searches. We are advocates who provide support for families of the missing. We connect families with the resources that are available to them. We work with Law Enforcement and Search and Rescue agencies to assist families of the Missing. We distribute information about Missing Persons through social media. We continue to raise awareness through events held in the community; Awareness brings prevention! Wisconsin Missing Persons Advocacy will only post or share missing persons information that has been listed in a news article or listed in one of the Missing Persons databases we have a relationship with. A police report must be filed before we are able to post any information. If your loved is missing... and you have not done so... please contact police ASAP!! You do NOT need to wait 48 hours... the first 3 hours are the most crucial! As a nonprofit organization we rely on the generosity of the public to support us so that we may provide these services to the families for free. This is a volunteer based nonprofit in which no one is paid a salary. Please help raise your voice for the missing. Together we CAN make a difference! Contact:
Wisconsin Missing Persons Advocacy
1794 East Allouez Ave # 194
Green Bay, WI 54311
[email protected]
