Community United Effort
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April 11, 2013
I have been fortunate enough to volunteer with CUE over the last year and have nothing but praise for this organization. Specifically I have worked with Oregon State Coordinator, Michelle Mounts. Her representation of the organization is highly professional and well detailed.
We have been able to assist in bringing home a local medically endangered teen to her family. This was the most exciting and emotional case that I have worked on. You can not imagine the joy felt by all involved when we secured a safe return.
I encourage all to familiarize yourself with CUE's efforts and help as you can. You will be well rewarded with accomplishment and gratitude from the families you assist.
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Life-changing
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Very Well
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Definitely
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2013
1 person found this review helpful
April 10, 2013
1 person found this review helpful
This organization, Community United Effort, (CUE) does so much for the missing and their families. This organization promotes education, awareness and advocacy. They are there for the families of the missing and conducts searches for the missing under the most adverse conditions. To understand exactly all that is done by this organization review their web site www.ncmissingpersons.org One can not say all this organization does there are too much for words. The hope and strength it brings to the families to continue to go on each day with their lives day by day. The hundreds of searchers funded by this organization to conduct searches is phenomenal, and all with donated funds. As a searcher with this organization I have seen it first hand and the agonies dealt with making sure these searches are conducted as safely as possible for all involved. The thousands of families that this organization has helped through it's 19 year history says it all.
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Life-changing
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Very Well
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Definitely
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2013
4 people found this review helpful
April 8, 2013
4 people found this review helpful
I first got involved with the CUE in 2006, when Monica added my sister to her "ON THE ROAD TO REMEMBER" Tour. My sister Dori was abducted on January 11, 2006, and is still missing, I was living a life of "Time marches on, yet it stands so still". Reliving the day Dori disappeared, over and over, not knowing what to do to keep her name in the press and make her important to anyone that would listen.
It wasn't until a few years later that I volunteered to do some graphic work for the CUE, that I started to learn so many things about how to keep Dori;s case fresh in the minds of the community and in the news. It was eye opening and life changing knowing that I wasn't alone.
Seeing the never ending perserverance and dedication that Monica and everyone involved with the CUE put into finding Resolution for the families of the missing is a very humbling experience, I call Monica the "ERIN BROCKOVICH" of missing persons, because she knows each and everyone of her Missing, and with her straight forward, no-nonsense attitude, guides each and everyone of the families, she is rock solid and believes in what she does.
I am so fortunate to be involved the the best organization I have ever volunteered for, albeit under the worst of circumstances. The CUECENTER for Missing Persons is family to me. I have met the greatest people and will continue volunteering as long as they will have me.
From Newbies, to Long term, we are all in it together searching for the answers we all deserve, and knowing that we have Monica fighting for us, fighting to find our Missing loved ones and doing everything in her power to give us hope, makes me want to do more too.
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Definitely
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2013
April 6, 2013
2 people found this review helpful
I have been involved with The Community United Effort (CUE) for Missing Persons since May 2009 when I was a member of a Mounted SAR unit in my area. I made the decision to volunteer strictly for CUE in November of that same year. Monica Caison took the time to take me under her wing immediately and from there her passion was infectious. My husband and I became Board Members in 2010 and have not looked back. CUE holds its National Missing Persons Conference in March of every year and having just come away from this 4 day event, you are always changed for the better. Monica puts together a fantastic program that some how makes you more motivated than you were the year past.
The CUE Center for Missing Persons is the best organization from our Mission Statement to all of the individuals that make it a life experience for so many. Thank you Monica and CUE for showing me that putting others before ourselves is the best reward we can be given.
Cyndi Graham, PGA
CUE Center Board Member
CUE Center Volunteer Searcher
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2013
November 14, 2012
3 people found this review helpful
My name is Cynthia Evans Graham. I came to know the Community United Effort Center for Missing Persons in May 2009 when I became involved with a mounted equine SAR unit that had been called out for the Brittanee Drexel Case in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. By November of 2009, I had contacted Ms. Caison and expressed my interest in volunteering solely for The CUE Center. She immediately accepted my offer and put me to work. My interest and passion were fueled by her infectious passion for the families and the victims, her endless dedication to getting the search done and finding a resolution for the families left behind. Her days are consumed by her tireless efforts that leaves little time to even eat and sleep. My husband and I are now Board Members for CUE and continue to be volunteer searchers in whatever capacity we are needed. I think it may be safe to say that we would follow her to the edge and jump. That is how much we believe in Monica Caison and CUE.
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Life-changing
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2012
April 5, 2013
I've been involved with this organization for a few years and during that time I have witnessed wonderful acts of compassion toward families of the missing. This is such a well organized group of people over seen by Monica Caison conducting searches, heading up different awareness campaigns to keep that missing person in the public eye till they are found and brought home. These acts let the family keep hope alive while seeking closure. This wheel rolls with many different talented individuals as resources from those who wanted to help to families helping each other because of their mutual lose. Monica Caison keeps searches going through donations, fund raisers, and sometime by her own credit card trying to help the different searchers with rooms, meals, and gas. The more money generated will help more families bring their loved ones home.
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Life-changing
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Very Well
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2013
April 5, 2013
I have just started volunteering for CUE in 2013. I attended the conference that they held in March in NC and it was very good. I have yet to work for the organization yet, but the testimony's from the families at the conference were very moving and nothing but praised the organization. The members that volunteer are very good at their jobs and give, unselfishly, to help find missing people. I hope that I too can contribute something worthwhile to this organization.
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Some
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Quite well
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Definitely
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2013
1 person found this review helpful
January 10, 2013
1 person found this review helpful
I have had the unique pleasure to work with Monica Caison and her staff from a mounted and ground perspective on several searches. The Cue center is composed of a unique cadre of Quintessential Professionals who are the real "All American Volunteers". Driven to assist families in need searching for their lost and missing loved ones, Cue Center members are driven individuals to continuously train and become experts in their speciality. With constant training and searching, these unique skill sets in mounted, K9, ground, ATV, Air, Water, etc.. provide incredible search resources for multiple communities throughout the United States. I am honored to be a new member of the Cue center team!
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Life-changing
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Very Well
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Definitely
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2012
5 people found this review helpful
January 1, 2013
5 people found this review helpful
I have been a volunteer member of the The Cue Center For Missing Persons for 2 1/2 years now. It seems like yesterday when I found the CUE website in search of resources to assist a community nearby that I was living in. Sure enough, Monica Caison, picked up the phone immediately as she was on a search in Florida at the time and directed me to what the family needed to do in order to register their missing loved one in accordance to the organizations guidelines as well as offer helpful advice. It was not long after that I continued to inquire about becoming a volunteer with the CUE Center as my background and passion in Criminal Justice went hand in hand in the work CUE performs daily for the families of the missing, I filled out the application online. What I found out and felt quickly at the onset is that Monica, the cue volunteers, as well as the families of the missing were in itself, one gigantic "family" of natures own making. Formed by pain, suffering, grief, desperation... Bound by the common-morality of having a missing loved one and within some of those; the desire to help make difference in the future in the lives of other families suffering through the nightmare of having a missing loved one.
I never could have imagined meeting a more dedicated, compassionate, empathetic, hardworking, passionate person than Monica Caison; she is not only these things, she is a driving force to be reckoned with a tenacious toughness that she encompasses in her efforts to climb the mountains in finding resolutions for her families; never to give up. Monica has been a role model and teacher to me and so many others in many forms. Monica is selfless when it comes to the cause and the mission it serves, she shares in her abilities & knowledge by educating the CUE volunteers, the families, communities, & even at times law enforcement. There are many veteran volunteers at CUE whom I could say many similar things about and this is what makes this organization so special and unique in genuineness.
Working with the CUE family daily not only has allowed me to participate in the efforts of CUE from advocating, ground searches, community awareness campaigns, etc.. on behalf the families of missing. It has educated me in multitudes in what all is entailed for CUE to operate it's mission.
Not only do I feel blessed to be a volunteer with CUE but I am also a donor to the organization. I don't typically share this information publicly but I hope in sharing my perspective as a volunteer who is also donor that is able to see the REAL difference made day to day with donated funds, it would inspire others to get involved. CUE provides all their resources for FREE to the families of the missing and to law enforcement. When you hear the old saying "no strings attached" or "it's to good to be true".... literally, there are NO strings attached and it IS GOOD while being TRUE! The CUE Center relies on donations in order to operate. HUGE efforts are made to get the essentials donated and to keep any costs down/minimal in the forms of ground search efforts in hotel rooms, meals, travel expenses etc.. for searchers, printing materials, billboards, and the list goes on and on!! At the end of the day there are still costs to the organization in the ability to provide these resources needed to operate. The CUE Center's network of resources across the country is huge. There have been many times I have witnessed Monica bringing in a special resources clear across the country in order to aid a particular search. Many of these resources themselves are other non-for-profits who donate their time and capabilities but require travel costs in order to get there. This is just one small example of many, in which the CUE Center incurs a cost to aid a search. I can also share that these resources have proven instrumental in actual recoveries made just in the short time I have been around.
Last, I want to share how much I admire the strict ethical standards the CUE Center implements when it comes to fundraising in which they never raise money as an organization by way of using a missing persons name as a tool. I found this to be so admirable in light of all that goes on in the world of missing persons that many are unaware. With that being said I would like to also add there are many families who on their own accordance and desire have done their own fundraisers in support of the CUE Center and the mission as well as become volunteers and advocates for the missing themselves. I find these efforts amazing as many of these families in their grief have been selfless enough to in helping others of the same. It is not uncommon to show up on a search and find family members of a missing person there to support the family of the loved one being searched for. The difference the CUE Center makes in the lives of so many is a true blessing.
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2 people found this review helpful
December 19, 2012
2 people found this review helpful
My family is so very grateful for the time and commitment by Ms. Caison and everyone in CUE. Through CUE we were able to find my youngest brother this year. He was slowly, in our opinion, killing himself living on his own. We rescued him and brougth him here to stay with us, and he has made a remarkable recovery! Thank you.
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2012
2 people found this review helpful
December 16, 2012
2 people found this review helpful
I have been a part of CUE for about a year now, and whole heartily believe in what we do. Monica Caison is a very good person and has grown her vision and all of the volunteers give so freely. It is the best organization I have ever volunteered with. I will continue to support them as long as I can!
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Life-changing
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2012
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