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 Child Protection Means in Minnesota (KARA Podcast)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJune 21, 2025
- This year’s Budget, Bills, and Abused Children
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJune 19, 2025
- What Happened to Aaliya Goodwin (a KARA Podcast)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJune 14, 2025
- A Win For Abused Children of Minnesota
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJune 13, 2025
- The Beatings Will Continue (KARA Podcast)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJune 7, 2025
- Politics, Religion, and At-Risk Children
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJune 6, 2025
- MN Guardian ad Litem Program by the Numbers
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJune 5, 2025
- Numbers Too Big to Believe (KARA Podcast)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMay 31, 2025
- Powerful Stories From The Atlantic Journal
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMay 25, 2025
- 8 Year-old Tayvion Davis (Podcast)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMay 24, 2025
- Domestic Violence and Child Death at the Hands of Caregivers
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMay 19, 2025
- Other Perspectives Podcast
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMay 19, 2025
- It Can't Happen Here (Sally's Story - Podcast)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMay 17, 2025
- Seeking Stories About Childhood Trauma
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMay 17, 2025
- KARA's Foster Care Podcast Series
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMay 15, 2025
- Vulnerabilities in the Foster Care System (podcast)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMay 10, 2025
- Kids At Risk Action History
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMay 10, 2025
- The End Of Child Protection
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMay 8, 2025
- Volunteer Opportunities
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMay 7, 2025
- Links to Facts and Happenings in Child Protection and Public Health
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMay 2, 2025
- The Critical Need for Child Advocacy Centers (podcast)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMay 2, 2025
- National CASA Federal Funding Terminated - Share this with your lawmakers
KARA reportingMike TikkanenApril 30, 2025
- Care Giver Retreat for MN Adoptive, Foster, & Kinship Caregivers
KARA reportingMike TikkanenApril 28, 2025
- Best and Worst Practices in Minnesota CPS (part 4 of 4)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenApril 24, 2025
- Best and Worst Practices in Minnesota CPS (part 3 of 4)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenApril 23, 2025
- Best and Worst Practices in Minnesota CPS (part 2 of 4)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenApril 21, 2025
- Best and Worst Practices in Minnesota CPS (part 1 of 4)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenApril 20, 2025
- Doing the Math in Child Protective Services (podcast)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenApril 19, 2025
- 77 Years of Child Abuse (podcast)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenApril 12, 2025
- Share these MN Child Friendly Bills With Your State Rep
KARA reportingMike TikkanenApril 11, 2025
- Be a Voice for MN Children at the Capital April 1 and 7
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMarch 26, 2025
- Hidden Crisis of Child Abuse and Trauma During the COVID Lockdown KARA Podcast
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMarch 23, 2025
- Be a Voice for MN Children at the Capital in April
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMarch 23, 2025
- No More Punishment Please
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMarch 11, 2025
- Ethan's Story
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMarch 10, 2025
- What Happened To Portia?
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMarch 9, 2025
- The Beatings Will Continue
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMarch 6, 2025
- Parental Drug Use Killing Children in Pennsylvania at High Rates (investigative report)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMarch 5, 2025
- (CASA Guardian ad Litem) Be a Voice For Abused Children Where You Live
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMarch 2, 2025
- There Is No Constituency For Abused & Neglected Children
KARA reportingMike TikkanenFebruary 25, 2025
- Child Death and Public Non Disclosure (thank you Marie Cohen)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenFebruary 19, 2025
- 77 Years of Child Abuse
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJanuary 27, 2025
- 200 Child Deaths In CPS Deserve To Be Recorded In CPS
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJanuary 26, 2025
- The War On Fosters
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJanuary 23, 2025
- Reckless & ill-Advised Public Policy For Endangered Children
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJanuary 19, 2025
- Tip of Children's Mental Health Iceberg
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJanuary 8, 2025
- 2025 - A Happier New Year For At Risk Children
KARA reportingMike TikkanenDecember 30, 2024
- The Ghost of Christmas Past (the value of healthy children)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenDecember 22, 2024
- Child Abuse Articles December 2024
KARA reportingMike TikkanenDecember 20, 2024
- Suicide, Child Abuse and Christmas
KARA reportingMike TikkanenDecember 14, 2024
- Thank You & Happy Holidays
KARA reportingMike TikkanenDecember 8, 2024
- Management Not Fit For Purpose
KARA reportingMike TikkanenNovember 28, 2024
- Child Abuse Sad Stories (4 days in November)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenNovember 24, 2024
- Fosters, Grandparents & Thanksgiving Hunger
KARA reportingMike TikkanenNovember 23, 2024
- Budget Surplus Fund For Children (how to make a Christmas Miracle)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenNovember 22, 2024
- Why Children Need Mandated Reporters
KARA reportingMike TikkanenNovember 16, 2024
- Realities of Mandated Reporting (why child abuse reporting is sporadic)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenNovember 15, 2024
- Abolishing CPS Kills Children & Ruins Fosters
KARA reportingMike TikkanenNovember 13, 2024
- COVIDs Impact on CPS, CASA volunteers, & Guardian ad Litem Staff
KARA reportingMike TikkanenNovember 3, 2024
- Making CPS Work For Everyone part 1
KARA reportingMike TikkanenOctober 25, 2024
- If I Only Had a Brain
KARA reportingMike TikkanenOctober 20, 2024
- Child Abuse Investigations & Reforms
KARA reportingMike TikkanenOctober 15, 2024
- Child Protection In America Today
KARA reportingMike TikkanenOctober 12, 2024
- Expecting Different Results From Prison for Kids
KARA reportingMike TikkanenOctober 9, 2024
- One Question KARA Survey
KARA reportingMike TikkanenSeptember 28, 2024
- KARA - CASA Google Ad Grant Initiative ($120,000 annually)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenSeptember 25, 2024
- Human Services - Beyond Crisis
KARA reportingMike TikkanenSeptember 19, 2024
- Child Welfare News Fall 2024 (compiled articles)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenSeptember 12, 2024
- America's Children In 100 Charts (draft preface)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenSeptember 6, 2024
- Don Samuels' Story (from KARA 2014 archives)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenAugust 23, 2024
- Thank You Ann Ahlstrom (MN Guardian Ad Litem Board Chair)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenAugust 22, 2024
- Schools, Child Suicide, Nurses, & COVID
KARA reportingMike TikkanenAugust 17, 2024
- What Teachers Are Facing Today and Tomorrow
KARA reportingMike TikkanenAugust 11, 2024
- AMERICA'S CHILDREN IN 100 CHARTS (read book draft)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenAugust 8, 2024
- Fear and Firing of Mandated Reporters of Child Abuse
KARA reportingMike TikkanenAugust 6, 2024
- Thank You Highland Banks
KARA reportingMike TikkanenAugust 1, 2024
- Fetal Alcohol Births (and a very big policy change)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJuly 24, 2024
- Child Protection Intake Notes (through the eyes of a child)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJune 25, 2024
- Recent Child Suicide and Self-Harm Articles Around the Nation
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJune 20, 2024
- KARA Presentation Janesville CASA (heart of the matter)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJune 15, 2024
- Non-Transparency In Child Protective Services (find your state here)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJune 9, 2024
- Parsing the Data (how child abuse impacts your community)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJune 3, 2024
- Child Suicide - Quick Facts
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMay 31, 2024
- Minnesota Child Protection News May 2024
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMay 30, 2024
- KARA - CASA and Child Advocacy Support Program
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMay 19, 2024
- U.S. Child Welfare Articles May 8 & 9 2024 - (From the Children's Bureau)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMay 18, 2024
- New Child Fatalities Database (thank you Safe Passage for Children of MN)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMay 10, 2024
- MN Child Abuse Reporting April 1 - May 9 2024
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMay 9, 2024
- Send Your Senator a Message Today (Safe Passage For Children of MN)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMay 3, 2024
- The Best Interest of Children
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMay 3, 2024
- CASA of Rock County's Break The Cycle Luncheon
KARA reportingMike TikkanenApril 26, 2024
- DATA WORTH HAVING (for making informed decisions)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenApril 19, 2024
- Keep Minnesota children safe in Child Protection
KARA reportingMike TikkanenApril 12, 2024
- Education in 2024 - Educating At Risk Children (what tomorrow looks like)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenApril 4, 2024
- Celebrating Minnesota's CASA Guardian Ad Litem Progress
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMarch 28, 2024
- KARA - CASA Ad Grant Initiative ($120,000 annually)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMarch 20, 2024
- Thank you to the Edina Federated Women's Club!
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMarch 20, 2024
- 200 Child Abuse Calls Each Day (76,000 calls / year)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMarch 15, 2024
- America's CHILDHOOD TRAUMA and ACES Impact
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMarch 14, 2024
- KARA Videos on Child Abuse
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMarch 14, 2024