NISMART or the National Incidence Studies of Missing, Abducted, Runaway and Throwaway Children, was a research project supported by the United States Department of Justice.
It was enacted to address the 1984 Missing Children's Assistance Act (Pub.L.
This required the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) to conduct periodic national incidence studies to determine the actual number of children reported missing and the number recovered.
[citation needed] Also, NISMART-2 interviewed youth directly whereas NISMART-1 did not.
[citation needed] A federal grant of $1 million for NISMART-3 was announced by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention in 2010.