Programs & projects
What Kids at Risk Action runs alongside the data.
KARA SIGNAL reads the federal record. Around that work, KARA publishes news about its own operation, produces and appears in podcasts, mentors college students on child protection research, and runs a standing project with Hamline University. Each below.
Current KARA news
What Kids at Risk Action itself is doing right now: press appearances, project launches, personnel and board notes, collaborations with universities and journalists. This is organizational news, not federal-record news; for the 24-hour scan of the record, see the Daily Signal.
- KARA in the archive →
Twenty years of Kids at Risk Action's own reporting and announcements, indexed by keyword.
Podcasts
Long-form audio, KARA-produced episodes and outside appearances alike, on child protection policy, the CASA volunteer guardian ad litem role, and the cases the numbers do not carry. Cited hosts, no engagement mechanics.
- Listen on Spotify →
The KARA show page on Spotify. Tracking parameters stripped from the outbound link per the site's no-tracking rule.
- Podcast coverage in the archive →
Episode notes and appearance write-ups from the archive.
College student work
KARA runs research collaborations with college students in the United States and abroad. The recurring premise: information about child protection exists, is scattered, and mostly goes unread; the correction is to organize it where people already look. Students do the reading and the writing under KARA's editorial standards, and every contributor is credited by name in the resulting archive article.
- Cavendish University Uganda: enhancing child protection awareness on Wikipedia →
Sixteen students, November 2025, through the Riipen experiential learning program. Facilitated by Martha Kibuka-Musoke and Mike Tikkanen.
- Intern and student contributions in the archive →
International Child Abuse Hub interns and other student contributors, indexed across the archive.
The Hamline project
A standing collaboration with Hamline University in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Prof. Jessica Lang's Spring 2026 Health Psychology class, sixteen students in six groups, worked through the Riipen experiential learning program to build the content foundation of the KARA Toolkit System across its three professional audiences: law enforcement, child welfare and social services, and foster and adoptive parents. Facilitated by Prof. Lang, Jarred VanHorn, and Mike Tikkanen.
- Hamline coverage in the archive →
Every archive article that names the university, its faculty, or its student contributors.