Tasha Marie Smith (29) | Missing | Cambridge | Dec 1, 2010

[me]

OntarioLinda - just a thought, you've indicated that Tasha's mental age does not correspond with her physical age.  I'm not asking you to tell us anything about her specific mental development, but would it be possible that you would qualify for the help of the Missing Children's society?  I'm afraid I don't know anything about it, but sadly there are other posters on here who have lost children and might be able to tell you.  Also, have you contacted the Canadian Mental Health Association to see if they can help to bring any pressure on the investigators?

[eyeswideopen]

Linda just another Idea I have, how about checking out the toronto sun or star and find one person who writes a colomn and try talking to them and iniciate an attack on the group home that don't seem to care and stir something up from that angle , kind of going back to square one but since no sitting is actually verified may have to start right at the begining. Mike snobel is a good one to start with , he stirs things up some. and doesn't go away.

[tiger2338]

Ever thought of going to CTV's W5?  Or the Globe and Mail? National coverage and they don't go away.

http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/WFive/20100109/w5_faq_100109/.

http://v1.theglobeandmail.com/help/contact-web/.

No better PR than the national kind.

[jobo]

I believe the Mental Health people have failed Tasha big time.....so has the police.   If a Public Guardian has control of Tasha's money, then the government (community living, Adult Protective Services)  too, has a responsibility to bring Tasha's uncharacteristic disappearance to the forefront of the Police's radar.   The hospital and the group home have files on Tasha's illnesses, and they would know the characteristics of each illness, and they should also know it IS out of character for this poor woman/girl  to walk out empty handed.     Why won't they wake up? 
 
I would be putting up posters right outside the police station, and group home, and even community living office (or Adult Protective Services whatever association is responsible)  maybe then they will take note that you know Tasha and what you know in your heart to be a desperate situation for her safety.   
What kind of lifestyle would she be drawn to?   Where would she want to go?   I understand family would know her well, but then her medical files regarding her behaviors should help lead to the most likely places she would gravitate to.
I hope something positive can come your way ontariolinda.   

[jobo]

Ontariolinda:   I was just wondering if you read other threads on this forum?    I thought of you when I read the Thread on Charles Doyle New Brunswick, and Carol King in Saskatchewan. The New Brunswick family used the psychic, Michelle Russell (from Fredericton)....who seemed to lead them into the bush and "under the ferns', to find their father's remains.    The Saskatchewan family had an interview on the radio station to get word out.

Have you put flyers where young people hang out?   I have never been to Cambridge, have no idea where the young gravitate to, but   I would go to the Tattoo Parlour, and wherever they do piercings, and make sure there was Missing Posters put there.  Her tattoo is unique with the words in the skeleton's mouth. Just some more suggestions, as I want you to find Tasha.   

[me]

Linda, the suggestion Jobo made about the tattoo parlour is a good one.  There are several of them in Cambridge.  Ask them if they have anyway of distributing the flyer to tattoo parlours across Canada - there may be a convention, or some such thing that tattoo artists attend.  You could also go online to find tattoo parlours in North Bay, Toronto, and any other location that you think Tasha may have contacts in.

[jellybean]

Is Tasha street savy?  Does she have experience of being on the street?  If so, does she have any street friends?
Has she contacted the Public Guardian since leaving the group home? Where do you feel that she would go to get money?
(I am thinking of a welfare office)
Did she at one time know of an elderly fatherly type of person in the her past to whom she may have contacted? (other than her own Dad?) - perhaps a neighbour?
Have you checked youth shelters, homeless shelters, and mental health drop in clinics?

These questions may seem strange, but when one thinks about it, she would have to contact someone in this world.
No one can truly survive on their own without receiving some human contact, and in her case with her mental illness, she would certainly need medications supplied from somewhere. I am not familiar with the Ontario system re: those who live "independently" with some outside support for those with mental illness.

I would check with all of the city agencies that offer such services.

Unfortunately, since she is under the Public Guardian, if she says that she does not want contact with her family, they are not obligated to tell you anything. I would go the Public Guardian's office (not phone - but go) and talk to them.  If she has disappeared, since the PG's office is legally bound to her, and responsible for  her welfare, the police would be legally bound to let them know.  And I think you will learn alot by going to the PG's office, if you possibly can.

PS - Public Guardians do not handle the money of a client.  The Public Trustee does. So she would have both - A public guardian for her care and generally well being.  A public trustee who would handle her money for her -
You might also contact the Public Trustee's office as well.

God Bless you, and while the task of locating her may seem daunting - the answer is out there somewhere.

Peace
JB

[mommy]

l would just like to let everyone know that my girl, Tasha Smith missing since Dec 1st 2010, is still missing 

[soccermom]

I am so sorry for your heartache. I have seen very little attention to Tasha's disappearance in the news, which makes it so much harder to get the public's help. I'm sorry that I don't have any ideas for you.... But many of the suggestions here about notices in public areas where youth congregate are good. Yet:  So much time has passed that people start to forget what they may have seen or heard.... That's what is so frustrating when LE and media fail to whip up a frenzy of attention to a case. People who may have had tips may not remember now.

I'm keeping Tasha's family in my thoughts and prayers -- and Tasha too.