Other Losses Foster Children Face
As a guardian ad-Litem for an 11 year old girl, I was appalled when the care agency threw away all of her possessions because she was messy. Think about it. Removed from her birth family (where she was...
View ArticleImportant News From Safe Passage For Children
What if everyone agreed to get behind some of the same best practices for children? It would improve chances of state funding, be easier to track outcomes, and create economies of scale. This may be...
View ArticleIn Whose Best Interest (MN courts returned this child to an abusive father 6...
The number of Minnesota foster children removed from their homes after being reunited with their parents, known as the "re-entry rate," has increased in recent years and is now nearly three times the...
View ArticleWhy Are So Many Six Year Olds On Prozac?
Hennepin County Judge Heidi Schellhas shared her records of very young children taking psychotropic medications that had passed through her courtroom with me in 2005 (for my book, Invisible Children....
View ArticleChild Protection News (gathered nationally – find your state here)
--CA: Drugging Our Kids San Jose Mercury News - September 20, 2014 Children in California's foster care system are prescribed unproven, risky medications at alarming rates....
View ArticleThe Worst State for Foster Kids In America (how we value our children)
Florida lost 500 foster care children a few years ago and caseworkers lied about their work in 2001. Richard Wexler (Head of the National Coalition for Child Protection Reform) claimed that "There is...
View ArticleFines and Judgements For Child Protection Failures (millions of $ badly spent)
Over the past few years the states of Washington (144 million dollars) and Indiana have been sued successfully for many millions of dollars for failing to protect abused and neglected children. In...
View ArticleBabies, 2 year old’s & Antipsychotic Medicines
New York Times article has identified that over 100,000 prescriptions for antipsychotic medicines were written in 2014 - children 2 and younger (many still in cribs). A shortage of child psychiatrists...
View ArticleKARA Presentation January 10th 10am St Paul
Join Mike's presentation and lively group discussion on the state of child protection and child abuse in our community. 1167 Summit AV St Paul MN 10am Sunday January 10th
View ArticlePennsylvania Child Protection News Sept – Oct 2015
Number of uninsured Pa. kids declined slightly last year, study finds Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - October 28, 2015 More than 139,000 Pennsylvania children did not have health insurance last year,...
View ArticleFlorida Child Protection News October 2015
FL: DeWitt: Step up to save Hernando's visitation center (Opinion) Tampa Bay Times - October 15, 2015 What this state most certainly does not need is one less safe place for vulnerable children. That,...
View ArticlePennsylvania Child Protection News December 2015
Two Bills Aim To Improve Lives Of PA's Foster Children 90.5 WESA - December 28, 2015 Act 75 of 2015 and House Bill 1603 came about a result of the 2014 federal Preventing Sex Trafficking and...
View ArticleChild Sex, Child Mortality, Education, Prozac & Guns (how we value children)
America’s long running fight against sex education has brought our nation the low honors of having the highest STD rate in the world and the highest teen pregnancy rates in the world. We have lots of...
View ArticleCASA guardian ad-Litem News Around the Nation for June 2016
FIND YOUR CASA here - This page tells the stories of CASA's around the U.S. If you are not listed, send me your info and we will include it. Thank you Sai Yang and Century College for your research and...
View ArticleJanuary Sad Stories Part I (thru 1.13.17)
Sign Up Here For KARA’s Free Friday Morning Real Story KARA tracks current news about at risk children bringing transparency and attention to our youngest and most vulnerable citizens. Please note...
View ArticleA Brief History of Four Year Olds and Prozac
Medicating very young children with psychotropic drugs is accepted protocol in foster homes and child protective services throughout America. States vary, but 33% of state ward children appears to be...
View ArticleJuly Sad Stories Part I
This is only a sampling of what should be reported – the great majority of child trauma & abuse never gets reported. American states are struggling to find answers for saving at risk children and...
View ArticleSeptember Sad Stories 2017 Part I
37% of children overall and 57% of Black children are reported to child protection services in America by the time they turn 18. (American Journal of Public Health 1.17) 12 million children a year are...
View ArticleCritical Perspectives On Child Abuse (updated regularly – send KARA your...
Adverse Childhood Experiences ACES NEWS Top notch reporting on research and news about abuse politics, programs and stories locally, nationally and internationally. Current and focused trauma informed...
View ArticleStatistics & Data About America’s Abused Children
This page is for those of you who know the value of data and the importance of tracking information about the issues of child abuse. KARA will work to update it regularly and we encourage you the...
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