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United Legacy is a Minnesota based Nonprofit organization that offers a no cost missing person search management service. It is the mission of United Legacy and our volunteers to help bridge the gap between communities, local officials, and families during the search for a missing loved one. United Legacy was founded by the Family of Christopher Rossing, 25, of Annandale who tragically went missing from Howard Lake, MN in 2014. It was through the unimaginable search for Christopher that a need was realized, and a mission was born. It is in times of great fear and living in the unknown that United Legacy offers step-by-step guidance, advocacy, and support while working hand-in-hand with families of the missing. When called upon by law enforcement to assist, United Legacy helps organize both public and private search efforts. United Legacy aids and assists by utilizing a multitude of resources such as: onsite public volunteer training, food, shelter and supplies for emergency/non emergency search management, medical personnel, volunteer searchers, equine teams, K-9 units, divers, ATV, Argo, drone, helicopter searches, and more. United Legacy offers public and private training events for First-Aid/CPR/AED, Wilderness First-Aid, volunteer training, specialty search training, and currently developing an advanced public training program. Volunteers, donations and resources alike provide United Legacy with direct support for families, and ongoing search management needs. At United Legacy, the search for missing loved ones is ongoing. Whether the outcome is positive or negative, all families deserve answers and support on their journey to find a missing loved one.

Being partnered with The Jacob Wetterling Resource Center has enriched United Legacy as an organization in so many ways. United Legacy has had the honor of partnering with JWRC for nearly 5 years during public/private searches, awareness campaigns, and public safety for partnered events. United Legacy volunteers have learned valuable tools over the years with our partnership. These tools have strengthened our training programs, particularly in sensitivity training, stages of grief, self-care, crisis response, and ongoing trauma support. The caring staff at JWRC, the Wetterling Family, and my personal mentor Mrs. Jane Straub, have all demonstrated great leadership, compassion, patience, and understanding. This level of support and understanding reaches not only United Legacy, but also our family, and most importantly the families we serve. We at United Legacy feel humbled to be partnered with an organization that has empowered such positive change over the course of 30 years. Our gratitude is immeasurable.

Happy 30th Anniversary to The Jacob Wetterling Resource Center, the amazing staff, and to the Wetterling family. Through your sacrifices over the years have brought so much light, love and hope to so many.

Thank you for 30 years of service!

April 1, 2020

Minnesota Professional Partner Organizations: United Legacy

United Legacy is a Minnesota based Nonprofit organization that offers a no cost missing person search management service.

March 27, 2020

Destination Imagination (DI) Partnership

Destination Imagination (DI) is a global educational nonprofit dedicated to inspiring the next generation of innovators, leaders, and creative problem solvers.

March 24, 2020

A Letter from Patty Wetterling

We, our family and friends, are not unfamiliar with some of the dynamics of the crisis our nation is facing. There is tremendous fear, and it is taking way too long to solve, or turn things around. Living with fear and unknowns for nearly 27 years, we managed to find ways to cope. Maybe some of our coping strategies will be helpful to you...

March 17, 2020

Youth Serving Organization, Minnesota Theater Alliance

JWRC Director Alison presents Under a Watchful Eye: Prevention Education for Youth Serving Organizations to MN Theater Alliance members.

March 6, 2020

Child Protector App: Protecting against child abuse

Child Protector assists Children’s Protective Services, law enforcement, attorneys and medical personnel when evaluating children who may have been physically abused. The free app was developed by Children’s Mercy and the University of Texas Health Science Center (San Antonio) through Children’s Justice Act Funding from Texas and Missouri.

March 5, 2020

30 Year Anniversary: March – Be Kind- Youth Serving Organizations

Girl Scouts of Minnesota and Wisconsin River Valleys (as we fondly call “GSRV,” “River Valleys,” or “council”) is one of 111 Girl Scout councils in the United States. We operate as Girl Scouts, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. We serve 28,000 girls in southern Minnesota, western Wisconsin, and a single (yet important!) county in Iowa. Our work is supported by more than 9,000 volunteers. Girl […]

March 4, 2020

The “Hit No More” Social Media Contest

Are you a social media whiz? Check out the "Hit No More" Social Media Competition. The goal of this contest is to develop social media materials to persuade Americans that physical punishment is never okay to use—so to quit hitting children.

February 28, 2020

A Letter from Alison Feigh

30 years. Much has changed at Jacob Wetterling Resource Center since our early days of sending out missing posters by mail shoulder to shoulder with volunteers in a basement in St. Joseph. Our work originated in a family and community’s belief that what happened to Jacob wasn’t fair and being moved to act. The community came together and began making the world a place […]

February 21, 2020

Prosecutor Institutes

The Trauma-Informed Prosecutor Project (TIPP), a program of the Zero Abuse Project, will offer 12 prosecutor institutes over the next three years (4 per year). These institutes will be two-day training institutes for child abuse prosecutors. The first day will cover the following basic topics: The role of the prosecutor in aiding the collection of corroborating evidence Preparing children for court Cross-examination of defendants […]

February 11, 2020

11 for Jacob – The Beginning of A Movement

The answer to the question of what happened to Jacob Wetterling came in September of 2016. It was not the answer that we wanted. What happened to Jacob was and is completely unfair. One spark that came out of that dark and grief filled time was a movement for the people of Minnesota and beyond to move forward in hope and positivity, living life […]