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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- Removing 100's of Community Volunteers from Child Protection (why?)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenApril 29, 2022
- COVID & Child Abuse in Minnesota
KARA reportingMike TikkanenApril 13, 2022
- COVID-19 Impact on Child Welfare in Colorado
KARA reportingMike TikkanenApril 12, 2022
- April is Financial Literacy Month (Fostered/Adopted Youth Invited)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenApril 4, 2022
- COVID IMPACT ON AT RISK YOUTH
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMarch 14, 2022
- Virtual Child Advocacy Week in MN (Making a difference quickly & effectively)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMarch 10, 2022
- Free Financial Literacy Program for MN's Fostered & Adopted Youth
KARA reportingMike TikkanenFebruary 23, 2022
- CHILD WELLBEING NEWS FEB 11-18 2022
KARA reportingMike TikkanenFebruary 23, 2022
- Other People's Children Are Not Society's Problem - Senator Ron Johnson
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJanuary 30, 2022
- Sex Trafficking & LGBTQ Children & Youth
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJanuary 19, 2022
- Child Trafficking: Singular Story and Global Perspective
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJanuary 8, 2022
- BY ANY MEASURE
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJanuary 5, 2022
- Child Rights, Religion & the United Nations Rights of the Child Treaty
KARA reportingMike TikkanenDecember 24, 2021
- Domestic Violence Around the World
KARA reportingMike TikkanenDecember 21, 2021
- Grace's Story (Thank you ChildrensRights.org)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenDecember 21, 2021
- Financial Literacy - The Gift That Keeps on Giving
KARA reportingMike TikkanenDecember 20, 2021
- Children Living & Dying As Martyrs to a Parents Religion
KARA reportingMike TikkanenDecember 12, 2021
- I tried to kill myself in the third grade
KARA reportingMike TikkanenDecember 11, 2021
- IT'S NOT A CRIME TO ABUSE YOUR CHILD
KARA reportingMike TikkanenDecember 5, 2021
- Child Abuse Stories, Statistics & Politics In America Today
KARA reportingMike TikkanenNovember 28, 2021
- Human Rights and the Psychotropic Medicating of Children
KARA reportingMike TikkanenNovember 16, 2021
- Foster Care, Adoption & the Catholic Church
KARA reportingMike TikkanenNovember 15, 2021
- Covid Related Youth Mental Health Crisis
KARA reportingMike TikkanenNovember 14, 2021
- Why We Hate Lawsuits (Eric Dean’s grandmother sues county & social workers for his death)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenNovember 11, 2021
- Helping Homeless Kids In Minnesota
KARA reportingMike TikkanenNovember 11, 2021
- National Adoption Month (statistics, books, videos & articles of, by & about foster and adoptive children)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenNovember 9, 2021
- Parental Rights & Child Wellbeing
KARA reportingMike TikkanenNovember 8, 2021
- Child Protection Activists
KARA reportingMike TikkanenOctober 22, 2021
- Arresting Sobbing Eight Year Old Children In Tennessee
KARA reportingMike TikkanenOctober 9, 2021
- October Is Domestic Violence Awareness Month
KARA reportingMike TikkanenOctober 4, 2021
- Minnesota Child Abuse + Child Protection (fall 2021)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenOctober 4, 2021
- Foster Care Day Rates vs Dog Care Day Rates (it just doesn't seem right)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenSeptember 25, 2021
- It Can't Happen Here (Sally's Story)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenSeptember 23, 2021
- The School Safety Net
KARA reportingMike TikkanenSeptember 22, 2021
- KARA Is Unable to Respond To Requests For Child Protection Issues
KARA reportingMike TikkanenSeptember 19, 2021
- 58 Miles
KARA reportingMike TikkanenSeptember 17, 2021
- Mental Health Help
KARA reportingMike TikkanenSeptember 16, 2021
- CDC Charts Mental Health & Child Suicide Pre COVID
KARA reportingMike TikkanenSeptember 14, 2021
- Our Creeping Mental Health Crisis (& statistics)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenSeptember 8, 2021
- KARA Financial Literacy Program
KARA reportingMike TikkanenSeptember 6, 2021
- Recent Child Self-Harm & Suicide (state reporting summer 2021)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenSeptember 4, 2021
- Minnesota Child Protection (thank you Safe Passage for Children)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenAugust 27, 2021
- Domestic Violence Report August 2021
KARA reportingMike TikkanenAugust 19, 2021
- Domestic Violence Resource Guide (National & International - share this widely)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenAugust 18, 2021
- MN Child Protection Reality Check (thank you Safe Passages for Children)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenAugust 13, 2021
- Supporting Parents of Disabled Children (guest post)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenAugust 12, 2021
- THE COST OF PUNISHING DAMAGED CHILDREN
KARA reportingMike TikkanenAugust 4, 2021
- Child Welfare Information (find your state here)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJuly 9, 2021
- ACE Study, Crime & Ramsey County (reprinted from 2006)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJuly 3, 2021
- Self Destructive Habits & Institutions (CASA guardian ad litem program in MN Today)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJuly 2, 2021
- Pounding On At Risk Children
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJune 22, 2021
- Free Bikes For Kids Needs Help (to give away bikes)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJune 3, 2021
- For Profit Youth Prisons & False Imprisonment
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJune 3, 2021
- Trauma & Child Self-Harm
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJune 1, 2021
- COVID Complicates the Mental Health of Traumatized Children
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMay 28, 2021
- Congratulations Rich Gehrman and Safe Passage For Minnesota Children
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMay 27, 2021
- Child Abuse News & Statistics In Your State
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMay 16, 2021
- Why Children Are Abused (chapter 3 overview)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMay 11, 2021
- Juvenile Injustice, Race & the Supreme Court
KARA reportingMike TikkanenApril 23, 2021
- Children & Gun Violence (as American as Apple Pie)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenApril 19, 2021
- Post COVID Juvenile Justice Trends (Casey Foundation Surveys)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenApril 8, 2021
- Aged Out Foster Youth Urged To Return (new federal benefits)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenApril 1, 2021
- Draft KARA Book Chapter 1
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMarch 27, 2021
- Child Abuse & the COVID Lockdown
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMarch 21, 2021
- It's Inevitable (police shootings)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMarch 19, 2021
- The Calculus of COVID, Domestic Violence and Child Abuse
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMarch 18, 2021
- Child Protection/Unassigned CASA Guardian ad Litem Cases
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMarch 1, 2021
- A Marshall Plan For Traumatized Children Post COVID
KARA reportingMike TikkanenFebruary 18, 2021
- Collateral Damage - ACEs - Education - COVID
KARA reportingMike TikkanenFebruary 8, 2021
- We Are A Nation of Child Abusers
KARA reportingMike TikkanenFebruary 4, 2021
- Child Abuse & Soul Murder (chapter 2)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJanuary 23, 2021
- Aging Out of Foster Care In the Time of COVID
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJanuary 8, 2021
- Havoc In Texas & Florida Child Protection Services
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJanuary 5, 2021
- Youth Worker Podcasts (thank you YIPA)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJanuary 1, 2021
- Holiday Best Wishes To Everyone & the Best Foster Child Blogs
KARA reportingMike TikkanenDecember 22, 2020
- Thank You & Happy Holidays
KARA reportingMike TikkanenDecember 18, 2020
- Christmas for Adult Survivors of Child Abuse (NAASCA radio talk show)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenDecember 17, 2020
- A Free & Powerful Mental Health Resource For Minnesota Children
KARA reportingMike TikkanenDecember 10, 2020
- COVID Burnout; Health Care, Teachers, Law enforcement, Social workers & what we could do
KARA reportingMike TikkanenDecember 1, 2020
- Tasered and Tried as Adults - Police Training, Resources & Courts Meet America's At Risk Children
KARA reportingMike TikkanenNovember 29, 2020
- Good Bye David Strand - Founding KARA Board Member and Best Friend
KARA reportingMike TikkanenNovember 26, 2020
- COVID & Child Suicide November 2020
KARA reportingMike TikkanenNovember 21, 2020
- Lawsuits and the Death of Two Year Old Arianna Hunziker
KARA reportingMike TikkanenNovember 20, 2020
- Schools Closed - What We Need to Know
KARA reportingMike TikkanenNovember 19, 2020
- Goodbye Joe McCarthy - Founding KARA Board Member & Best Friend
KARA reportingMike TikkanenNovember 3, 2020
- Winning the War Against At Risk Children (& saving our city)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenNovember 1, 2020
- Children, Politics & Voting On Tuesday
KARA reportingMike TikkanenOctober 28, 2020
- Restorative Justice - Veterans & Children (saves money and lives)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenOctober 25, 2020
- New CDC Youth Data - STD's, Mental Health, Drug Use & Suicide
KARA reportingMike TikkanenOctober 23, 2020
- Child Suicide Reporting (3 weeks ending 10.17.20)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenOctober 18, 2020
- Fetal Alcohol Babies (FASD) & the Harm in Minimizing Realities
KARA reportingMike TikkanenOctober 11, 2020
- Policing, COVID & Abused Children (share with your law enforcement contacts & save a child)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenOctober 9, 2020
- International Child Well-Being 9.16 - 9.30 2020
KARA reportingMike TikkanenSeptember 30, 2020
- Children & The Supreme Court (from the Children's Defense Fund)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenSeptember 30, 2020
- Abused Children, COVID & Law enforcement
KARA reportingMike TikkanenSeptember 26, 2020
- Criminalizing Elementary School Children (policing our schools & punishment)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenSeptember 26, 2020
- What Child Abuse Looked Like in America Last Week (a snapshot)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenSeptember 24, 2020
- Police vs Social Worker and what happened to an autistic child when the wrong one showed up
KARA reportingMike TikkanenSeptember 21, 2020
- This Saturday (9.19.20) KARA's Twin Cities NonViolent Event (2pm)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenSeptember 15, 2020
- Signs That You Are a Mental Health Worker
KARA reportingMike TikkanenSeptember 14, 2020