Archive
Two decades of reporting on children inside U.S. child welfare systems, 2005 to today. Every item carries its provenance inline: who wrote it, when, and what kind of evidence it is.
Articles are republished as written, with original news citations preserved. No images from the original corpus appear in any form. Where a piece names a specific child, the case is already part of the public record — see our editorial policy. To find a specific state, county, or case, the search is faster than paging; each state page carries its own archive alongside its numbers.
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- What Teachers Can Do: Trauma Informed Classrooms That Transform Students’ Lives
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJuly 20, 2026
- Working With Childhood Trauma (what parents can do)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJuly 20, 2026
- America’s Child Brides: Jerry Lee Lewis, Legal Loopholes, and the Rights We Deny Our Children
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJuly 20, 2026
- Efficiency vs. Children’s Lives: How Ned & KARA Expose Failures in Child Protection
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJuly 19, 2026
- Rana Plaza, Children, and Corporate Responsibility – KARA
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJuly 19, 2026
- Rana Plaza Disaster: Factory Collapse, Child Labour, and Corporate Responsibility
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJuly 19, 2026
- What You Can Do Series – School Principals
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJuly 19, 2026
- Youth Tried as Adults: Life Sentences, Trauma, and the Failure of America’s Juvenile Justice System
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJuly 15, 2026
- Family Assessment and Child Death from Star Tribune Child Abuse Reporting
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJuly 14, 2026+ press sources
- Who Will Speak For Abused & Neglected Children? video
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJuly 13, 2026
- KARA Conversations – Growing Childhood Trauma Awareness Where You Live
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJuly 12, 2026
- United Nations Youth Conference (2007 – what’s changed for abused children?)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJuly 12, 2026
- Parental Drug Use Killing Children in Pennsylvania at High Rates (investigative report)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJuly 12, 2026
- What Mandated Reporters Can Do: Turning Knowledge Into Protection, Action, and Healing
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJuly 12, 2026
- Global Value Chains and the Power of Multinational Enterprises (MNEs)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJuly 11, 2026
- Corporate Power, Global Value Chains and Child Labour in Bangladesh
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJuly 11, 2026
- Child Protection in the Dark: How Our Blind Spots in CPS Are Costing Taxpayers, Children, and Communities
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJuly 11, 2026
- Childhood Trauma, Suicide, and a CPS System Flying Blind
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJuly 11, 2026
- Arizona’s Hidden Child Trauma: KARA Deep Dive Into Child Abuse
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJuly 11, 2026
- Alaska’s Hidden Child Trauma: Beyond CPS Number
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJuly 9, 2026
- When Trauma Walks Into Class: Student on Teacher Violence, ACEs, and the Cost of Ignoring Childhood Abuse
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJuly 9, 2026
- Invisible Hours: Child Labour in Bangladesh’s Toxic Informal Economy
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJuly 7, 2026
- Ending Meaningful Child Protection in America
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJuly 6, 2026
- Foster Care Realities, Problems, and Solutions
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJuly 5, 2026
- Child Labour in Fast Fashion: How Our Clothing Choices Harm Children
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJuly 5, 2026
- KARA's Invisible Children Traveling Community Conversations
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJuly 3, 2026
- Join KARA's Children’s Crusade: Making Life, Liberty, and Happiness Real for Abused and Neglected Children
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJuly 2, 2026
- What Happens When Foster Teens Get Punished Instead of Treated? A CASA’s View From the Front Line
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJuly 2, 2026
- Self-Destructive Habits of Institutions
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJuly 1, 2026
- Minnesota Children Killed By Caregivers While Known to CPS (& how to stop it)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJune 30, 2026
- Overwhelmed Institutions & Public Policy
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJune 29, 2026
- Building KARA’s National Child Abuse Data & Solutions Platform: Why We Need Your Help
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJune 29, 2026
- Leadership and Child Protection
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJune 28, 2026
- Kudos to Wisconsin for Tracking Child Death and Egregious Harm
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJune 28, 2026
- Only One Country Denies Children Basic Rights: The United States
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJune 27, 2026
- Why Every State Needs a Foster Led Child Welfare Promise
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJune 26, 2026
- Child Abuse Prevention In America (videos & articles)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJune 26, 2026
- Best and Worst States for Very Young Children in CPS: New Data on Risk, Failures, and Hope
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJune 25, 2026
- Childhood Trauma and Lifelong ACES Impact
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJune 24, 2026
- Mandated Reporting and Why We Don't
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJune 23, 2026
- CASA Minnesota Guardian ad Litem Opportunities
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJune 22, 2026
- Fixing CPS - (35 Minute Podcast)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJune 21, 2026
- Thank You Cyndy Etler (don’t lock them up)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJune 20, 2026
- 2 year-old Lylah Koob's Death & Why (from the Safe Passage Report)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJune 19, 2026
- Child Abuse and Child Protection Stories & Statistics Arizona & Arkansas
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJune 19, 2026
- 2 Year-Old Sophia O'Neill Death & Why (from the Safe Passage Investigative Report)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJune 19, 2026
- International Rights of the Child Treaty (& why jails are full)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJune 19, 2026
- Adoption & Foster Care In America – (their stories, your state)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJune 19, 2026
- Impossible Questions & Painful Statistics
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJune 19, 2026
- CPS Intake Notes (what it's like from the inside)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJune 19, 2026
- Politics & Children - A Zero Sum Game
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJune 19, 2026
- Arming Teachers/Shooting Students (advocating for less violence and a more civil society)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJune 19, 2026
- MN Has 3rd Highest Sex Trafficking Cases in U.S.
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJune 19, 2026
- Best & Worst States For America's Children
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJune 19, 2026
- Childhood Trauma Is a War Injury: How ACEs Rewire the Brain and Fuel Crime
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJune 16, 2026
- Anna's Story (Transgender Youth Interview & Statistics)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJune 13, 2026
- KARA Podcasts: Powerful Conversations About Interrupting and Ending Child Abuse
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJune 13, 2026
- The Real Cost of Child Maltreatment, CPS, and Recidivism
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJune 12, 2026
- Misconceptions About CPS and Child Welfare: What the Research Really Shows
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJune 11, 2026
- Invisible Children: The 200 Lives Lost in Child Protective Services
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJune 10, 2026
- Fear and Firing of Mandated Reporters (KARA podcast)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJune 9, 2026
- Why America’s Child Protection System Is Failing—and How to Fix It
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJune 8, 2026
- How One Letter Saved a Child (KARA Podcast)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJune 8, 2026
- When Is Child Abuse a Crime
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJune 7, 2026
- KARA Digital Toolkit: Free and Low Cost Tech for Traumatized Children and Teens
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJune 7, 2026
- How Foster Care and Group Homes Fail America’s Most Troubled Children
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJune 6, 2026
- How Alcohol, Drugs, and Poverty Drive Child Abuse: From Fetal Alcohol Syndrome to Criminal Neglect
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJune 6, 2026
- “Safety” at Home, Rape in Secret: The Long Shadow of Caregiver Sexual Abuse
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJune 6, 2026
- America’s Child Abuse Emergency: 546,000 Victims, 2,000 Deaths, and a System That Chooses This
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJune 6, 2026
- The War on Fosters: How America’s Foster Care System Fails Youth
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJune 6, 2026
- What School Counselors Can Do: Protect, Heal, and Empower Children
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJune 6, 2026
- Alex Miller’s Leadership Is Rebuilding Minnesota’s CASA Program
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJune 5, 2026
- Child Endangerment (Star Tribune "IN HARM'S WAY")
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJune 4, 2026
- Silent Crisis - Child Protection & Systemic Reform KARA Podcast
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJune 3, 2026
- Part 3: Scaling the "Minnesota Model" for Maximum ROI Impact
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJune 2, 2026
- All About Adverse Childhood Experiences: Trauma, Testing, And Resilience (podcast)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJune 1, 2026
- Part 4 of 5: Why Early Childhood Investment Outperforms Remedial Spending
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMay 31, 2026
- Tip of the Mental Health Iceberg (podcast)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMay 30, 2026
- Northeastern University Study on the Child Welfare Crisis With Projections
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMay 28, 2026
- Foster Child Self-Harm & Suicide June 2025
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMay 27, 2026
- What Teachers Can Do: Trauma‑Informed Classrooms and Child Protection
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMay 26, 2026
- Very Young Children, Suicide, and Abuse: What We, CPS, and Lawmakers Must Do
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMay 25, 2026
- In Custody, In Crisis (podcast episode #1)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMay 25, 2026
- Why We Hide Child Abuse Data
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMay 25, 2026
- Recruiting Child Soldiers (yes, we do)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMay 24, 2026
- Part 2: The Science Behind Early Childhood Returns (ROI)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMay 23, 2026
- KARA's Plea For Children (a call to action)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMay 22, 2026
- How Child Abuse and Trauma Sabotage Education, Public Health, and Public Safety
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMay 21, 2026
- Invisible Cost Child Abuse ACEs Healthcare Impact
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMay 21, 2026
- Extended Foster Care: Problems and Solutions (podcast #2 in foster care series)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMay 21, 2026
- Deep Dive Into Northeastern University Child Welfare Crisis Research
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMay 21, 2026
- Part 5 of 5: Crime Dollar ROI From Early Childhood Programs
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMay 20, 2026
- Foster Care Mental Health Needs, Costs, and Facts for Minnesota & The Nation
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMay 18, 2026
- If You Live In MN You Should Do This
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMay 18, 2026
- International Rights of the Child Treaty (& why jails are full)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMay 17, 2026
- State of Foster Care In America
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMay 16, 2026
- Family First & Child Neglect Studies and Reporting
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMay 13, 2026
- 2. How Colorado Hid Child Abuse Behind FAR Policy Changes (thank you Marie Cohen & Child Welfare Monitor)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMay 11, 2026
- "Kids Are Slowly Being Neglected To Death" - Hennepin County Judge Jane Ranum (Thank You from the children in my caseload)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMay 10, 2026
- The Foster Care Data We Don’t Track – And How This Hurts Children
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMay 9, 2026