Families of the Missing: Start With Our Benefits and Services
Be sure to visit our benefits and services page to see how we can help. Project Jason offers and special family member forum "Healing Harbor" and annual "Keys to Healing Retreat".
Project Jason in Action
Miles for the Missing
September 13, 2009
Project Jason hosted the Sixth Annual Miles for the Missing. Participants bicycled or walked the lovely park paths.
Project Jason Spotlight
Don & Donna Ross
Belton, MO
September 13, 2009
"When our son Jesse went missing, we had to reach out from Belton MO to Chicago IL. The police were business like, but not really a lot of help for our family at this critical time. We discovered Kelly and Project Jason on the web. She told us all the things the police didn't, what agencies were out there, the things that we could be doing on our own. She offered personal advice and thru her own personal experience she helped us understand ourselves and what was happening to us. Project Jason helped us get Jesse's story out to the nation. She also helped us deal with those who would take unfair advantage of people like us (so called psychics, etc.) Probably one of the most dear things she did for us was to be a friend."
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Always, always look at the faces of the missing. Remember that it could be your daughter or son, or any of many family members or close friends. It hurts when they are gone. Please help bring them home.
In Loving Memory of
Amber Harris
In Loving Memory of
Ryan Katcher
In Loving Memory of
Joanna Rogers
In Loving Memory of
Heaven LaShae Ross
Contact Us
Project Jason
P.O Box 3035
Omaha, NE 68103
Phone: 402-932-0095
E-mail: information@projectjason.org
Project Jason Milestones
June 14, 2001 - Jason Jolkowski disappears out of the driveway of the family’s Omaha, NE home.
October 6, 2003 - Project Jason, a 501(c)3 is formed.
January 2004 - Project Jason’s first awareness program, the 18 Wheel Angels, is launched. More than 45,000 posters have been distributed to date by truck drivers and other interested persons.
May 2004 - Project Jason and Nebraska Governor Mike Johanns declares Missing Person’s Week in Nebraska. Project Jason representatives traveled #, stopping in more than a dozen cities to meet families and local law enforcement, and to distribute their free English- or Spanish-language Child ID Kits and other educational materials.
August 2004 - Free Personal ID Kits in English and Spanish versions are made available on Project Jason’s website.
October 2004 - Project Jason launches Adopt a Missing Person awareness program.
February 2005 - Come Home, the first ever locator to seek the missing among the homeless, is launched by Project Jason.
April 2005 - The Jolkowski family is invited to attend a conference about missing persons sponsored by The Department of Justice, which gathered families of the missing, law enforcement, medical examiners, coroners, victim's advocates, forensic scientists, and key policymakers and resulted in a Missing Persons' Model Legislation.
May 25, 2005 - The Jolkowski’s Bill LB111, Jason's Law, is passed by the State Judiciary Committee, coincidently, on National Missing Children's Day.
July 2005 -- Project Jason’s work is highlighted in USA Today.
November 2005 - Students at Ashland University in Ohio arrange a record 1,500 “adoptions” of missing persons with Project Jason’s Adopt a Missing Person program.
December 2005 - Kelly Jolkowski volunteers to pick up where the Department of Justice meeting left off, forms Campaign for the Missing, and engages and mentors volunteers in passing the Missing Persons' Model Legislation in their own states. The new laws have a profound impact in changing policies and practices.
February 2006 - Jason’s Law website is launched on the Nebraska State Patrol’s website to bring awareness for all missing persons in Nebraska.
October 2006 - Project Jason hosts Fox Valley Technical College’s Investigating Missing Persons for law enforcement.
June 2007 - Project Jason hosts Omaha Missing Persons Day to bring awareness for the area’s missing person cases and garner community support for the families of the missing.
November 2007 - Healing Harbor, the only free online counseling service for families of missing persons, is launched.
May 2008 - Project Jason becomes the first nonprofit assistance organization to have a presence in Second Life, a popular virtual world.
May 2008 - Mark Hamilton, a person missing for 14 years, returns home with Project Jason’s help.
June 2008 - New Jersey passes Patricia’s Law, a law based on Campaign for the Missing, following Oregon, Connecticut, Florida, Indiana, Washington, Washington D.C., California, Colorado and Texas.
August 2008 - ID Kitty, Project Jason’s mascot, comes to life to bring the message to family members of all ages to have an ID personal kit.
August 2008 - Project Jason launches the Awareness Angels Network, a program which reaches subscribers via email across the country with updates on missing person cases and links to printable posters.
September 2008 - Independent filmmaker, Christina Fontana, begins filming her documentary “Project Jason: Voice for the Missing.”
March 2009 - Project Jason is accepted into AMECO, the Association of Missing and Exploited Children’s Organizations, Inc. AMECO membership validates the integrity and professionalism of the member organizations and is dedicated to serving the cause of missing and exploited children, their families, and the community at large.
May 2009 - Minnesota, with its Brandon’s Law, becomes the most recent state to pass laws based on Campaign for the Missing.
June 2009 - The first Project Jason Keys to Healing Retreat is held in Omaha, Nebraska