First 2,000 Kids Receive Free F.B.I. Child I.D. Kit as Eagles Host Brevard on Saturday

JEFFERSON CITY, Tenn. - Carson-Newman's home football game against Brevard next Saturday has been designated as Community Day. The Eagles and Tornados are scheduled to kick off at 1 p.m. at Burke-Tarr Stadium.

Not only will kids 12 and under be admitted free to the game, but also in conjunction with the American Football Coaches Association, FCA Football Coaches Ministry, the FBI and Carson-Newman College, parents of the first 2,000 kids, ages 12 and under, will be given a free Child's I.D. Kit.

The free kits are a part of the AFCA/FBI National Child Identification Program, which is a community service initiative dedicated to helping protect the more than 800,000 children that either run away or are abducted each year by providing parents and guardians with a valuable tool they can use in an abduction or run away situation.

The I.D. Kit allows parents to collect specific information by easily recording the physical characteristics and fingerprints of their children on identification cards that are then kept at home by the parent or guardian. The kit will give authorities vital information to assist in their efforts to locate a missing child if the situation ever arises.

Parents can pick up the kits before and during the game in the designated booth in the north end (opposite the Ken Sparks Athletic Complex) of the Burke-Tarr Stadium concourse.

Should the need be greater than 2,000 kits, Carson-Newman will host another Child's I.D. Kit giveaway during the Eagles' Nov. 7 home game against Tusculum, which kicks off at 1 p.m.

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