28 Jan Conversations with Richard Fidler

Radio National, 28 January 2015

Loren O’Keeffe’s brother Dan walked out of the family home in 2011 and didn’t come back.

Dan was 24 at the time and seemed to be managing his recently diagnosed depression. But when his status as a missing person couldn’t be denied, Loren quit her job and devoted herself to finding him.

Realising he could be anywhere in the country, she enlisted the help of a vast network she built largely on social media, through the ‘Dan Come Home’ campaign.

The public’s response was huge, and provided the O’Keeffe family with tangible hope.

In 2013 Loren founded an organisation called MPAN, to provide practical support for friends and families of missing people.

Hear the conversation and read the full article here.