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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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- Adverse Childhood Experiences: Trauma, Testing, And Resilience (KARA podcast)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMay 9, 2026
- Creating Local Events For Child Advocacy
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMay 8, 2026
- Child Sex Abuse & The Most Powerful Suicide Note Ever (Bill Zeller from 2011)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMay 7, 2026
- Children Are Under Attack: How Federal Funding Cuts Are Dismantling Kids’ Lifelines
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMay 6, 2026
- Child Abuse & Prosecution in Texas: Kids, Courts, and a Broken System
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMay 6, 2026
- School Performance, Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow & What To Do
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMay 5, 2026
- Sometimes People Get Shot
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMay 4, 2026
- How Missed Medical Red Flags Failed Baby Eli Hentges in Minnesota
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMay 3, 2026
- Essential Foster Care Videos and Podcasts: Powerful Resources for Foster Youth and Families
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMay 2, 2026
- What Foster Parents Can Do: Healing, Advocating, and Transforming Lives - 3
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMay 1, 2026
- Isabella's Story
KARA reportingMike TikkanenApril 30, 2026
- Numbers Too Big To Believe (the cost of untreated childhood trauma)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenApril 29, 2026
- A New Kind of Child Neglect
KARA reportingMike TikkanenApril 28, 2026
- KARA Deep Dive Research
KARA reportingLawrence KingApril 25, 2026
- Advocating for Child Protection in Everyday Life
KARA reportingMike TikkanenApril 23, 2026
- Federal Chafee Changes vs. Minnesota Reality: Are Foster Youth Getting What They Need?
KARA reportingMike TikkanenApril 22, 2026
- Family First & Child Neglect Studies and Reporting 2
KARA reportingMike TikkanenApril 18, 2026
- Where to Find the Best Child Abuse Data and Help for At Risk Kids
KARA reportingMike TikkanenApril 17, 2026
- Modern Slavery in the UK: How the Law Still Fails Children
KARA reportingMike TikkanenApril 14, 2026
- From Reporting to Preventing: Community Action for Child Abuse Prevention in Minnesota
KARA reportingMike TikkanenApril 14, 2026
- Foster Facts and Resources For Families: Healing, Advocating, and Saving Young Lives
KARA reportingMike TikkanenApril 13, 2026
- Cost Neutral Child Protection: The Deadly Lesson of Gabriel Fernandez
KARA reportingMike TikkanenApril 12, 2026
- “Illiteracy and Incarceration: What Ruben Rosario Got Right”
KARA reportingMike TikkanenApril 12, 2026
- Ethan’s Story: How Foster Care Failed a Traumatized Child
KARA reportingMike TikkanenApril 11, 2026
- Trauma Breathing for Kids: A Practical Toolkit for Caring Adults
KARA reportingMike TikkanenApril 11, 2026
- Child Abuse and the Domino Effect: Why Lawmakers Need Real Data
KARA reportingMike TikkanenApril 10, 2026
- Tracking Foster Youth Into Adulthood: What Leading States Already Know
KARA reportingMike TikkanenApril 9, 2026
- Best and Worst Hospitals For U.S. Children (Beckers Hospital Review)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenApril 8, 2026
- What Principals and Administrators Can Do to Keep Children Safe and Help Them Heal
KARA reportingMike TikkanenApril 8, 2026
- What Social Workers Can Do: Reclaiming Hope and Safety for At‑Risk Children
KARA reportingMike TikkanenApril 7, 2026
- One Safe Adult, One Stable Place: The Hidden Power of Stability for Children
KARA reportingMike TikkanenApril 6, 2026
- Why Minnesota’s Youngest Students Are Turning Violent: Childhood Trauma in K–3 Classrooms
KARA reportingMike TikkanenApril 6, 2026
- Five Daily Habits That Help Traumatized Children Feel Safe at Home
KARA reportingMike TikkanenApril 5, 2026
- National Volunteer Week: Why CASA/GAL Volunteers Matter for At‑Risk Kids in Minnesota
KARA reportingMike TikkanenApril 3, 2026
- What Foster Parents Can Do: Healing, Advocating, and Transforming Lives
KARA reportingMike TikkanenApril 2, 2026
- Children Watching War: The Hidden Trauma for Kids
KARA reportingMike TikkanenApril 1, 2026
- Support KARA’s Child Abuse Information Platform
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMarch 31, 2026
- The Youngest Children Face the Highest Risk — And Many Deaths Aren’t Counted
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMarch 31, 2026
- April and Preventing Child Abuse in a Time of Rising Risk
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMarch 30, 2026
- CASA Volunteers & Child Abuse Prevention Month: Building Protective Factors for Children
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMarch 29, 2026
- Cash vs. CPS: What $14 Million Really Buys
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMarch 28, 2026
- Be a Tester: KARA’s Interactive Child Abuse Information Hub
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMarch 27, 2026
- Hungry Like a Wolf
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMarch 26, 2026
- Nation Out of Step: An Early Childhood Education Manifesto for 2026
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMarch 25, 2026
- From Classrooms to Homeless Shelters: How Our Choices Hurt Children
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMarch 24, 2026
- Pediatric Clinicians Needed to Guide KARA’s National Child Abuse Platform”
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMarch 23, 2026
- What You Can Do Series - What Social Workers Can Do
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMarch 22, 2026
- “What We Do to Our Children” Is What We Do to Our Future
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMarch 20, 2026
- Missing Information: How Deleted Federal Data Blinds the Public
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMarch 19, 2026
- When Your Anxiety Becomes Your Child’s Anxiety: What Parents of Traumatized Kids Need to Know
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMarch 18, 2026
- Fosters and the Orphan Tax: How States Take Social Security from Foster Youth ________________________________________
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMarch 17, 2026
- Why Teaching in America Is Harder: Poverty, Trauma, and Turnover vs. Northern Europe
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMarch 16, 2026
- Child Abuse in America: Statistics Every Parent and Policymaker Should See
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMarch 15, 2026
- America’s Child Protection Crisis: Last Week’s Most Alarming CPS Cases and Reforms
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMarch 14, 2026
- LGBTQ Children, Even More Miserable Foster Care, and Suicide
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMarch 13, 2026
- Growing KARA's International Child Abuse Hub To Amplify Children's Voices Worldwide
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMarch 12, 2026
- What You Can Do Series - What Therapists Can Do
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMarch 11, 2026
- Child Abuse, Foster Care, and Youth Self-Harm and Suicide
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMarch 10, 2026
- The Physics of Child Protection in America
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMarch 9, 2026
- A Closer Look At Child Fatality and Egregious Incident Reporting
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMarch 8, 2026
- Smoke‑Free or Hooked for Life? Selling Nicotine to Children and Youth (w/videos)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMarch 7, 2026
- All Adults Are the Protectors of All Children (Don Shelby)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMarch 6, 2026
- What You Can Do Series - School Counselors Can Do
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMarch 5, 2026
- Child Abuse Sad Stories & Statistics (1ST 45 days in 2026))
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMarch 4, 2026
- Marketing Harmful Products to Children
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMarch 3, 2026
- Education 2026 - Educating At Risk Children (what tomorrow looks like)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMarch 2, 2026
- In 2007, 23.2% Uruguay's 13 to 15 year-olds used tobacco products
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMarch 1, 2026
- Essential Foster Care Videos and Podcasts: Powerful Resources for Foster Youth and Families
KARA reportingMike TikkanenFebruary 28, 2026
- The Quantum Mechanics of Childhood Abuse & Trauma
KARA reportingMike TikkanenFebruary 28, 2026
- INVISIBLE CHILDREN CAMPUS PROGRAM (Minnesota Colleges)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenFebruary 27, 2026
- COVID + ICE RAIDS Impacting America's Schools
KARA reportingMike TikkanenFebruary 26, 2026
- Texas Child Abuse Reporting
KARA reportingMike TikkanenFebruary 25, 2026
- Florida Child Abuse Reporting
KARA reportingMike TikkanenFebruary 24, 2026
- CASA Volunteers Are Coming Back: Why Minnesota Children Need Them
KARA reportingMike TikkanenFebruary 23, 2026
- Sweden vs United States: What Child Abuse Data Really Shows
KARA reportingMike TikkanenFebruary 22, 2026
- New Jersey Recent Child Abuse Death, Egregious Harm & Child Protection Issues
KARA reportingMike TikkanenFebruary 21, 2026
- LGBTQ Foster Care, Suicide, & Ground Truths (podcast #3 in KARA's foster care series)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenFebruary 20, 2026
- Minnesota’s Children and Federal Policy: Local Pain For Children From National Decisions
KARA reportingMike TikkanenFebruary 19, 2026
- Universal Rights Of The Child; All Talk No Action
KARA reportingMike TikkanenFebruary 18, 2026
- Habits and Needs of High ACEs Children
KARA reportingMike TikkanenFebruary 17, 2026
- Aaliya Goodwins Death & Why (podcast)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenFebruary 16, 2026
- Short Powerful Videos on Child Abuse Issues (20-30 seconds) - 2
KARA reportingMike TikkanenFebruary 15, 2026
- California Recent Child Abuse Death, Egregious Harm & Child Protection Issues
KARA reportingMike TikkanenFebruary 14, 2026
- Thank You for Being Part of the KARA Community
KARA reportingMike TikkanenFebruary 13, 2026
- Extended Foster Care: Problems and Solutions (podcast #2 in foster care series)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenFebruary 12, 2026
- Child Death and Public Non Disclosure (podcast)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenFebruary 11, 2026
- INVISIBLE CHILDREN (their stories) audiobook - listen free here
KARA reportingMike TikkanenFebruary 11, 2026
- Free and Discounted Resources for Foster Youth
KARA reportingMike TikkanenFebruary 10, 2026
- The Cost of Children Waiting for Their Voice In Court (Guardian ad Litem)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenFebruary 8, 2026
- Revisiting the Death Of Eric Dean (& where we are today)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenFebruary 7, 2026
- Child Abuse Statistics (and the best resources)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenFebruary 4, 2026
- Can Our Relationship Survive This Debate About Child Safety? - CPS reform and racism
KARA reportingMike TikkanenFebruary 2, 2026
- What You Can Do Series - School Boards
KARA reportingMike TikkanenFebruary 1, 2026
- Child Safety and MAAFPA Tensions
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJanuary 29, 2026
- He Carries His Passport Everywhere Now (from a Minneapolis Teacher)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJanuary 27, 2026
- Child Death and Public Non Disclosure (podcast)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJanuary 26, 2026
- Minnesota Family Preservation Law and Child Safety: When “Keep Families Together” Puts Children at Risk
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJanuary 26, 2026
- “Child Labor in Cocoa Farming in West Africa: How Chocolate Fuels Abuse—and How We Can Help
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJanuary 24, 2026
- Redefining Normalcy In Child Protection (from orphan trains to protection to ?)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJanuary 21, 2026
- Direct & Collateral Damage of ICE Raids on Schools and Daycare
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJanuary 17, 2026