Map the neighborhood. See the hazards.
Plan before panic.
Elephant Trace is neighborhood safety and hazard intelligence built for families and caregivers of neurodivergent and disabled individuals. It turns the terrain around your home into a pre-incident plan, so if elopement or wandering happens, you're not starting from zero.
Turn your street into a safety map
Enter an address, and Elephant Trace builds a radius-based map of the surrounding terrain, flagging waterways, traffic corridors, fencing gaps, and other proximity risks before they matter. The resulting hazard profile belongs to your family — you decide who sees it, whether that's a spouse, a caregiver, a school, or a local responder. Most families never get this information until after something has already gone wrong, and by then the map you needed was the one nobody gave you.
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Families and caregivers of autistic individuals
Build a hazard map of your home and neighborhood once, then keep it current as routines and risks change. Share it instantly with anyone who needs it in an emergency.
Parents of children with cognitive or developmental disabilities
Turn what you already know about your child's patterns into a plan responders and caregivers can actually use. No clinical jargon, no guesswork under pressure.
Schools and educational programs
Give staff a shared, current picture of hazard zones near campus and the students most at risk, so a wandering event triggers a plan instead of a scramble.
Residential care facilities and group homes
Maintain hazard profiles across residents and shifts, so every staff member — not just the ones who've been there longest — knows the terrain and the risk.
The risk is real. Most families are never told.
Elopement is when someone leaves a safe or supervised space — a home, a classroom, a yard — without warning and often without any sense of danger. It can happen in seconds: a door left unlatched for a moment, a moment of distraction, and a child who was just in the next room is gone.
The stakes are higher than most people realize. Water is the leading cause of elopement-related death, and incidents can escalate from "missing" to life-threatening in minutes, not hours. Distance and terrain — a pond, a busy road, a gap in a fence line — can turn a short absence into an emergency before anyone's finished searching the house.
This isn't a failure of attention or love. It's a gap in what families are told. Clinicians and schools often know the risk exists, but the practical information — what's actually near your home, what to do first, who to call — rarely makes it into a form families can use in the moment they need it.
Pre-incident planning doesn't guarantee a safe outcome. What it changes is the odds: minutes saved because you already know the terrain, hazards identified before they're a surprise, and responders who arrive with information instead of a blank map.
Map
Enter an address. The tool generates a radius-based overlay of the surrounding terrain.
Identify
Elephant Trace flags waterways, traffic corridors, fencing gaps, and other proximity hazards — ranked by how close and how dangerous they are.
Plan
Your pre-incident profile combines your hazard map with the details that matter in an emergency — routines, communication needs, known behaviors under stress.
Connect
Your profile can extend to your community responder network and, where available, local dispatch — so first responders are working from the same map you are.
Your neighborhood, organized before the emergency.
A community responder network is a group of trained, willing neighbors who can respond to a wandering event in the minutes before 911 arrives — the same logic behind a volunteer fire department. People nearby, briefed and ready, closing the gap that distance and dispatch time leave open.
The Kestrel supports this work as the shared coordination channel: neighbor alerts, visual verification, and a coordinated response that happens before anyone puts hands on the situation. It keeps the right people informed without turning a private family matter into a public spectacle.
This doesn't replace 911 — it runs alongside it. The neighbors who've seen your map, who know your child, who can move fast and in the right direction, are often the difference between a five-minute search and a fifty-minute one.
Learn about the responder networkThe TAHM coordination channel connects your network before a call goes out.
Neighbor alerts, visual verification, and structured response — built into the Kestrel platform.
Built for families, not just families with money.
Elephant Trace's core hazard mapping and profile tools are free. A paid tier adds expanded features for families and organizations that need more.
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