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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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- Kids At Risk Action August Update
KARA reportingMike TikkanenSeptember 3, 2020
- COVID Child Abuse Update for July - August 2020
KARA reportingMike TikkanenAugust 27, 2020
- MN Foster Care During COVID
KARA reportingMike TikkanenAugust 19, 2020
- Peter Hutchinson's School Fix Is Easy and Overdue (share this)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenAugust 14, 2020
- MN Child Abuse/Child Protection Summer Update
KARA reportingMike TikkanenAugust 13, 2020
- Facebook Replacing Mandated Reporters for Child Abuse?
KARA reportingMike TikkanenAugust 7, 2020
- Minnesota Child Protection Stories, Statistics & COVID - June 2020
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJuly 27, 2020
- Minnesota Child Protection Stories, Statistics & COVID - May 2020
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJuly 26, 2020
- For New Mexico's At Risk Children - Life is Very Hard (find your state here)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJuly 18, 2020
- Domestic Violence Statistics, Covid & Child Abuse Trends June 2020
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJuly 15, 2020
- Child Abuse, Covid & What We Know (stress and domestic violence)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJuly 5, 2020
- Policing Abused Children & Why It Can't Be Done
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJune 28, 2020
- Giving Voice to At Risk Children - it's easy
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJune 25, 2020
- Being a Voice For an Abused Child - CASA guardian ad Litems speak for the child
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJune 24, 2020
- COVID and Foster Care
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJune 16, 2020
- The Pandemic Impacting Child Abuse and Foster Care (state by state)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJune 10, 2020
- Poverty, Structural Racism and Children (thank you Safe Passage for Children of MN)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJune 5, 2020
- You're Hurting Me - Children Living In Toxic Homes During The Covid Lockdown (domestic violence statistics)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJune 1, 2020
- Posts & Video From ACEs Connection (+trauma informed resources for Covid19)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMay 20, 2020
- International Child Protection News for April 2020 (the COVID Impact)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMay 10, 2020
- What's It Like?
KARA reportingMike TikkanenApril 28, 2020
- Violence Against Children & Covid19 – (it’s own pandemic) part IV
KARA reportingMike TikkanenApril 27, 2020
- Violence Against Children & Covid19 – (it’s own pandemic) part III
KARA reportingMike TikkanenApril 20, 2020
- Violence Against Children & Covid19 – (it’s own pandemic) part II
KARA reportingMike TikkanenApril 13, 2020
- Pandemic Weakening Child Protection Safeguards (thank you Safe Passage for Children of MN)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenApril 10, 2020
- Violence Against Children & Covid19 – (it’s own pandemic) part I
KARA reportingMike TikkanenApril 6, 2020
- Supporting People Doing the Work of Keeping Children & Workers Safe & Healthy
KARA reportingMike TikkanenApril 3, 2020
- Preventing Child Abuse During the Lockdown of Covid19
KARA reportingMike TikkanenApril 2, 2020
- Trauma-Informed Resources during COVID Quarantine (thank you ACES Connection)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMarch 20, 2020
- Foster Care News 2019
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMarch 6, 2020
- A Critical Look At Foster Care
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMarch 2, 2020
- MN At Risk Children News 2.28.20
KARA reportingMike TikkanenFebruary 28, 2020
- Tortured Twice In Louisiana; A Sad Abused Ten Year Old Boy Facing Prison For Escaping His Abuser
KARA reportingMike TikkanenFebruary 25, 2020
- Making Minnesota A Trauma Informed State (trauma informed resources during covid 19 quarantine)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenFebruary 23, 2020
- Child & LGBTQ Suicide & Self-Harm (stories, statistics & trauma informed resources)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenFebruary 9, 2020
- Beat Up, Dead & Prostituted - Kids In CA's, Florida's Privatized Foster Care & Juvenile Systems (videos)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenFebruary 3, 2020
- Domestic Violence to a Five Year Old (living in a house of terror)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJanuary 26, 2020
- Child Homicides & A Week After Redlake (from 2005 - what's changed?)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJanuary 22, 2020
- Join KARA Tuesday (January 21, 6pm) Think Again & Brooklyn Park Human Rights Forum
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJanuary 16, 2020
- International Child Protection Stories, Statistics & Articles January 2020
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJanuary 11, 2020
- Revisiting the Tragic Abusive Death Of Eric Dean (& the legal non requirement of "due care")
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJanuary 10, 2020
- KARA's Sad Stories, Statistics and Articles State By State & International
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJanuary 8, 2020
- A Christmas Gift From KARA
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJanuary 4, 2020
- Sad Stories Child Abuse - Child Death Articles & Statistics
KARA reportingMike TikkanenDecember 18, 2019
- Early Education (return on investment)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenDecember 18, 2019
- Thank You Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota
KARA reportingMike TikkanenDecember 17, 2019
- Guardian ad-Litem Blogs & News
KARA reportingMike TikkanenDecember 16, 2019
- Draft KARA TEDx Talk (14 minute video)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenDecember 12, 2019
- Child Abuse & the LGBT Community
KARA reportingMike TikkanenDecember 9, 2019
- Group Home's (the nightmare of mental health services for abused children)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenDecember 2, 2019
- Minnesota's Children 2017 (compiled statistics, facts & stories)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenNovember 29, 2019
- MN Child Abuse/Child Protection Articles, Statistics & Events 2019
KARA reportingMike TikkanenNovember 28, 2019
- Contact Your Member of Congress Today (thank you Safe Passage For Children of MN)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenNovember 8, 2019
- Invisible Children Around the World; Japan
KARA reportingMike TikkanenOctober 28, 2019
- Speak For An Abused Child in Court (short video) WE NEED YOU!
KARA reportingMike TikkanenOctober 19, 2019
- KARA & 4th Annual Law Enforcement & Social Services Conference
KARA reportingMike TikkanenOctober 15, 2019
- CASA MN Trivia Night & Silent Auction (Oct 17)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenOctober 13, 2019
- Minnesota Child Abuse & Child Protection Sept 2019
KARA reportingMike TikkanenOctober 10, 2019
- Infant Death Stories & Statistics October 2019 (find your state here)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenOctober 10, 2019
- Healthy Students - Healthy Schools
KARA reportingMike TikkanenSeptember 29, 2019
- Recent Stories, Statistics & Articles About Adoption & Foster Care
KARA reportingMike TikkanenSeptember 29, 2019
- Killing Your Parents is Against The Law
KARA reportingMike TikkanenSeptember 9, 2019
- The Cost of Saving Money
KARA reportingMike TikkanenAugust 29, 2019
- American Crime Costs & Statistics
KARA reportingMike TikkanenAugust 22, 2019
- It Didn't Start In a Vacuum (crime - impact & statistics)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenAugust 5, 2019
- CASA Guardian Ad Litem Activity Around the Nation (where you live)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenAugust 1, 2019
- The Data Is In - Child Abuse is a Public Health Crisis
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJuly 22, 2019
- Wow - Thank You Amy and Friends
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJuly 22, 2019
- Recent Foster Stories & Statistics
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJuly 19, 2019
- INVISIBLE CHILDREN Book II - America's Public Health Crisis (why we should care)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJuly 17, 2019
- Hard to Watch; Immigration & Children as Political Footballs
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJuly 16, 2019
- MN Mesabi Academy, St Cloud Group Home & Florida (privatized group homes in America)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJuly 12, 2019
- Be A Voice For a Child In Court (July 24th 630 pm refreshments served)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJuly 10, 2019
- Ensuring Children Will Die Lawsuit in Indiana (the other way of getting better public policy)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJune 28, 2019
- Sad Stories June 2019 (III - child suicide)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJune 22, 2019
- Taxes 2 Year Olds (what the feds know that we should)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJune 21, 2019
- June Child Abuse 2019 (find your state here)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJune 19, 2019
- KARA Needs Your Videos & Stories
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJune 15, 2019
- Be A Squeaky Wheel For Children
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJune 14, 2019
- FREE BIKES FOR KIDS (volunteers needed this coming Saturday)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJune 10, 2019
- Blog Talk Radio Mike Tikkanen 7PM Friday
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJune 6, 2019
- Recent International Child Protection News
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJune 4, 2019
- Recent Child Suicide & Self-Harm Reporting & Statistics (Part III)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMay 23, 2019
- KARA’s Top Stories The Week of 5.17.19
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMay 17, 2019
- Early Learning Scholarships (thank you Safe Passage for Children)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMay 8, 2019
- Canada's Injustice to Indigenous Children (statistics & solutions)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMay 2, 2019
- Child Abuse - Minnesota's Public Health Issue
KARA reportingMike TikkanenApril 19, 2019
- It's Enough To Make You Sick
KARA reportingMike TikkanenApril 6, 2019
- Advocacy For Children Day (3.28.19) Give Voice to Minnesota Children
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMarch 26, 2019
- Preteen Moms & Why (stories & statistics)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMarch 26, 2019
- Trauma Awareness and Resilience Training in a Single Day
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMarch 21, 2019
- What It's Like Outstate For At Risk Children - Ogema Today
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMarch 21, 2019
- Mistaking Childhood Trauma for ADHD
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMarch 11, 2019
- Minnesota's At Risk Children's News, Stories & Statistics Part II
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMarch 6, 2019
- Minnesota's At Risk Children's News, Stories & Statistics Part I
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMarch 6, 2019
- National Workshop On Adult & Juvenile Female Offenders
KARA reportingMike TikkanenFebruary 27, 2019
- Is There a House of Horrors Where You Live?
KARA reportingMike TikkanenFebruary 22, 2019
- USA, Give Children the Rights EVERY Other Nation Has
KARA reportingMike TikkanenFebruary 18, 2019
- International Child Well-Being (stories, statistics and videos)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenFebruary 14, 2019
- Helping Vulnerable MN Children; just a minute to send this message (thank you Safe PassageMN)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenFebruary 7, 2019