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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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- New Linked In Group For Volunteer CASAs & All Guardian ad Litem (interactive)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMarch 7, 2024
- Don't Leave It To the Professionals (thank you Naomi Schaefer Riley)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMarch 5, 2024
- Leadership and Child Protection
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMarch 4, 2024
- Professionalism In Child Protection
KARA reportingMike TikkanenFebruary 24, 2024
- A COVID WAVE? (the double whammy of 2 years of ACEs on children and community)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenFebruary 18, 2024
- America's Crazy World of Child Protection (find your state here)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenFebruary 15, 2024
- Lies We Tell Ourselves About Child Sex Abuse
KARA reportingMike TikkanenFebruary 12, 2024
- HUGE NEWS: Former Chief Justice Kathleen Blatz Appointed to MN Guardian ad Litem Board
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJanuary 26, 2024
- A Courageous Vote! Thank You Minnesota Guardian ad Litem Board For Saving CASA Volunteer Program
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJanuary 22, 2024
- Saving Minnesota's Vulnerable Children
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJanuary 11, 2024
- Were Governor Walz State Board Members Misled About Volunteers (and what it could mean)?
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJanuary 4, 2024
- Thank You & Happy Holidays
KARA reportingMike TikkanenDecember 14, 2023
- CASA MN Newsletter (Guardian ad Litem News & Updates)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenDecember 1, 2023
- I Could Never Do What You're Doing (thank you Laurel Ferris & Women's Press)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenNovember 27, 2023
- Have Governor Walz State Board members been mislead?
KARA reportingMike TikkanenNovember 24, 2023
- Child Death, Employee Burnout & Guardian ad Litem Volunteers
KARA reportingMike TikkanenNovember 17, 2023
- KARA Videos of the Week
KARA reportingMike TikkanenNovember 9, 2023
- MN Children, Institutional Regression and Brain Surgery
KARA reportingMike TikkanenOctober 31, 2023
- Rich Gehrman Rebuttal of MAD Volunteer Guardian ad Litem Report
KARA reportingMike TikkanenOctober 18, 2023
- Save MN CASA Community Volunteers With Your Public Comment Today! (takes just a minute)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenOctober 15, 2023
- Saving the MN CASA Volunteer Guardian ad Litem Program (1 easy important thing)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenOctober 9, 2023
- Children & Gun Violence (as American as Apple Pie)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenOctober 6, 2023
- Saying Goodbye to the CASA Guardian ad Litem Volunteer Program
KARA reportingMike TikkanenSeptember 21, 2023
- We're Doing It Again - Doubling Childhood Poverty
KARA reportingMike TikkanenSeptember 15, 2023
- Inside the Henn Cty Guardian Ad Litem Office Today
KARA reportingLawrence KingAugust 12, 2023
- Is Child Abuse a Crime (and why not?)
KARA reportingLawrence KingJuly 27, 2023
- Saying Goodbye to the CASA Guardian ad Litem Volunteer Program
KARA reportingLawrence KingJuly 14, 2023
- Child Protection Stories Wanted
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJuly 5, 2023
- Hennepin County Child Well-being Advisory Committee Meeting Summary (with KARA notations)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJuly 1, 2023
- A short video
KARA reportingDamonJune 22, 2023
- Hospital Mental health services closing across America May 12 – June 16 2023
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJune 16, 2023
- Vulnerable, Abandoned Children. It's Who We Are.
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMay 17, 2023
- Rebuttal to Prior Post (rebuttals are encouraged)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMay 10, 2023
- Minnesota Children Killed By Caregivers While Known to CPS (& how to stop it)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMay 1, 2023
- Why Things Get Worse
KARA reportingMike TikkanenApril 30, 2023
- Striking Foster Care Articles & Policies (find your state here)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenApril 26, 2023
- 73% Increase in Suicide Attempts by Suicide 10-12 Year-Olds
KARA reportingMike TikkanenApril 21, 2023
- Visit KARA's INVISIBLE CHILDREN Conversation in St. Paul Next Week
KARA reportingMike TikkanenApril 20, 2023
- Saving the CASA Volunteer Community Guardian ad Litem Program
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMarch 31, 2023
- 5 Month Old Aaliya Goodwin Death & Why From Safe Passage For Children Investigation
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMarch 28, 2023
- Eli Hentges - 1 of 88 Stories of Child Death at the Hands of Caregivers
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMarch 21, 2023
- 8 Year-Old Tayvion Davis Death & Why (from the Safe Passage Investigative Report)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMarch 13, 2023
- Child & Youth Suicides Feb 2023 (find your state here)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMarch 11, 2023
- If You Live In MN This Simple Act Can Help At Risk Children
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMarch 3, 2023
- Alito's Story
KARA reportingMike TikkanenFebruary 23, 2023
- Do Kids Count? (it depends on where you live)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenFebruary 23, 2023
- Impossible Questions & Painful Statistics
KARA reportingMike TikkanenFebruary 16, 2023
- Safeguarding Gun Rights & Abortion vs. Safeguarding Children
KARA reportingMike TikkanenFebruary 10, 2023
- The Real World of Child Abuse (statistics)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenFebruary 10, 2023
- MN Child Fatalities From Safe Passages Reporting
KARA reportingMike TikkanenFebruary 8, 2023
- Math For Legislators (cost of youth crime) Part 1
KARA reportingMike TikkanenFebruary 7, 2023
- Statistics, Books, Videos & Articles of, by & About Fostered and Adopted Children
KARA reportingMike TikkanenFebruary 6, 2023
- Tracking Success (and Failure) in Child Protective Services
KARA reportingMike TikkanenFebruary 3, 2023
- Minnesota children killed due to maltreatment (NEWS RELEASE)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenFebruary 3, 2023
- 49 % of America's Black Youth Arrested Before Their 23rd Birthday (40% of White Youth)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJanuary 25, 2023
- Grace's Story (Thank you ChildrensRights.org)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJanuary 21, 2023
- Metrics of Minnesota's Child Protection (what does your state measure?)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJanuary 19, 2023
- Policing Abused Children & How Not To
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJanuary 17, 2023
- Minnesota Child Fatalities (thank you Safe Passage for Children)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJanuary 13, 2023
- Measuring What's Important
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJanuary 7, 2023
- Kids, Race & the Supreme Court
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJanuary 7, 2023
- Juveniles In Justice
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJanuary 1, 2023
- Year End Giving for KARA
KARA reportingMike TikkanenDecember 30, 2022
- For Profit Youth Prisons
KARA reportingMike TikkanenDecember 30, 2022
- Thank you Spire Credit Union, Highland Banks,Sunrise Banks and participating Rotaries
KARA reportingMike TikkanenDecember 29, 2022
- Today's Tip of The Tip of Children's Mental Health Iceberg
KARA reportingMike TikkanenDecember 28, 2022
- Pay It Forward
KARA reportingMike TikkanenDecember 17, 2022
- Criminalizing Elementary School Children
KARA reportingMike TikkanenDecember 13, 2022
- Juvenile Injustice In MN (thank you KARE 11)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenDecember 8, 2022
- If You Knew (what would you do?)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenDecember 4, 2022
- MN Child Abuse News Week of 11.30.22
KARA reportingMike TikkanenDecember 1, 2022
- Let's Stop Counties Stealing Money From Foster Children
KARA reportingMike TikkanenNovember 27, 2022
- Al McFarlane Conversation With Mike Tikkanen and Oliver Williams
KARA reportingMike TikkanenNovember 26, 2022
- Fosters, Grandparents & Thanksgiving Hunger
KARA reportingMike TikkanenNovember 23, 2022
- Childhood Trauma + Historical Trauma = Generational Trauma
KARA reportingMike TikkanenNovember 23, 2022
- TRAUMA EMPOWERMENT (what I've learned)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenNovember 17, 2022
- Give To the Max Day for KARA
KARA reportingMike TikkanenNovember 17, 2022
- The Cost of Tough on Crime (in tax dollars and public safety)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenNovember 12, 2022
- LGBTQ Foster Care & Ground Truths
KARA reportingMike TikkanenOctober 26, 2022
- Saving Vulnerable Foster Children - Saving the Volunteer Guardian ad Litem Program
KARA reportingMike TikkanenOctober 4, 2022
- If You Knew (what would you do?)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenSeptember 30, 2022
- Foster Care vs Dog Care (Reimbursements)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenSeptember 28, 2022
- 30.2 % of America's Youth Arrested Before Their 23rd Birthday (25% of us are state wards & special needs people)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenSeptember 22, 2022
- Is This About Child Protection or Something Else?
KARA reportingMike TikkanenSeptember 19, 2022
- When Hope Dies (child self harm & suicide part 2)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenSeptember 17, 2022
- When Hope Dies (child suicide & self harm - part 1)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenSeptember 15, 2022
- Happy GrandParent's Day (volunteering, kinship & raising a grandchild)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenSeptember 11, 2022
- If You Knew (what would you do?)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenSeptember 3, 2022
- Recent Child Welfare Articles & Statistics
KARA reportingMike TikkanenSeptember 1, 2022
- FREE COLLEGE FOR MN FOSTERS (Village Gathering Info Session 9.9.22)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenAugust 26, 2022
- Self-Destructive Habits & Institutions (Professionalism – Part 5)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenAugust 4, 2022
- Tasered and Tried as Adults
KARA reportingMike TikkanenAugust 3, 2022
- What 1.3 Million Dollars Could Provide At Risk Children (Arianna-Hunziker Settlement)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJuly 29, 2022
- Self-Destructive Habits & Institutions (Guardian ad litem program in MN Today - PART 4)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJuly 26, 2022
- Self-Destructive Habits & Institutions (Predicting the future – Part 3)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJuly 18, 2022
- American Crime Costs & Statistics
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJuly 17, 2022
- Support / Invite a KARA Initiative To Your Campus or Community
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJune 25, 2022
- Why Finland's Schools Outperform All Others
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJune 24, 2022
- Child Welfare Articles and Statistics For Week of 6.10.2022
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJune 10, 2022
- Financial Literacy GRANT & Training for Foster Youth (free)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMay 19, 2022