| The Jacksonville Pilot Club has started a
project to purchase several CARE TRAK Mobile Locater systems to be used by
Morgan County families who have family members with Autism, Alzheimers, or
other neurological conditions where they may simply wander off and become
lost. This system helps locate wanderers very quickly through electronic
signals from a small watch light device worn by the person who might wander.
Neurologically impaired people, who wander off properties, often become
injured or die from exposure to weather if they are not found soon. CareTrak
has bee credited with saving many lives. CARE TRAK International, Inc is
affiliated with
Wildlife Materials International, Inc. WMI
has been tracking and monitoring endangered species around the world for
over 3 decades. Our customers include the Smithsonian, National Audubon
Society, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, police search and rescue teams,
universities, zoos, private industry, and many more. For instance,
Wildlife Materials' equipment has monitored the red-crowned crane in China,
African leopards and elephants, crocodiles in India, the California Condor
studies funded by the National Audubon Society, the rare black-footed ferret
in Wyoming, Auburn University's project on the endangered Indigo snake, and
tree shrews in Borneo.
You have seen our equipment in use on television programs such as
Wild Kingdom, NOVA, National Geographic, Wild America, Inside Edition,
and 60 Minutes on CBS. The legendary Paul Harvey had a
report on the CARE TRAK Mobile Locater; we were recently featured in an
article in Parade Magazine.
Wildlife Materials was established in 1970 by Robert E. Hawkins, a
biologist then working as a project director at Southern Illinois
University Cooperative Wildlife Research Laboratory. Our designs were
inspired by the needs of field biologists: a computerized temperature
calibration system that signals illness, ovulation and stress in large
animals, and a subminiature transmitter to fit tiny birds that previously
could not wear a transmitter.
With proven technology behind us, adaptation of this expertise to the
long term care of people became a logical step. CARE TRAK monitors people
who wander due to Alzheimer's Disease and other dementia. The CARE TRAK
Mobile Locater can find a lost person up to a mile on the ground. We
also serve parents who have children with Down Syndrome, Autism,
Prader-Willi Syndrome, mental impairments and traumatic brain
injuries.
To address these specialized needs CARE TRAK was established in 1986. In
1988 the Federal Communications Commission granted CARE TRAK a license to
operate. Our clients also include dozens of skilled nursing facilities,
local police, county sheriffs, private individuals, and search and rescue
teams nationwide.
CARE TRAK is proud to be the exclusive equipment supplier to
Project Lifesaver. Project Lifesaver is a
non-profit police organization that uses CARE TRAK equipment to search for
those who wander. By utilizing police and other public safety organizations,
entire communities can be protected.
All CARE TRAK equipment is hand built by trained technicians to insure
quality and reliability. All transmitters and receivers are fully range
tested. Our home and skilled care facility equipment is built to the
identical tough standards as our professional research equipment. This
attention to detail and over 3 decades of building equipment for wilderness
tracking make CARE TRAK the best possible monitoring/locating equipment
available today. We welcome and appreciate your
questions and comments
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