A Kitchener family is desperately searching for their missing daughter.

28 year-old Tasha Marie Smith was last seen when she left her group home nine days ago.

She's from North Bay and has only been in this area since the summer. Her family has handed out posters in Kitchener, Waterloo and Cambridge. Tasha's parents say she knows people in Woodstock, London and Toronto.

Tasha Marie Smith is about 5',7", weighs 170 pounds and may have changed the style and color of her hair. She also has a tattoo of a blue skull on her inside right arm.

Tasha also goes by the name ‘Punx'