GARY | As the search for Jada Justice reaches its seventh day, family and friends of the 2-year-old Portage toddler haven't lost hope they will see her again.

Volunteers went door to door Monday handing out fliers explaining Jada's disappearance. The child's family also increased a reward they are offering to anyone providing information that will lead to Jada's return to $10,000.

Jada has been missing since June 16, when her baby sitter -- and cousin -- Engelica Castillo said Jada was taken from the Glen Park Gas station at the Louisiana Street and Ridge Road intersection in Gary.

Volunteers tied a pink ribbon on a pole or tree at the end of each block they visited so people didn't hit the same area twice.

Melissa Swiontek, Jada's mother, said the group didn't limit the area it would travel so some people also went into Hobart and Portage to distribute the fliers.

"You can go as far as you want to go," Swiontek said to the volunteers.

Standing near coolers full of bottled water for the volunteers, Jada's father, Clarence Justice, said he was thrilled with the amount of support the family has received in the search for Jada.

"It's a beautiful thing," he said.

Lake County Prosecutor Bernard Carter said Monday the investigation is continuing. Carter and staff members met with representatives of the U.S. attorney's office, the FBI and the Hobart and Gary police departments.

Justice said he plans to come back to the Gary gas station every day to continue to inform people about his missing child.

"I'll keep doing that until Jada comes back," he said.