Nevada Pays for Lost 2 Year Old Foster Child
With shrinking resources, each state and all counties need to remember the burden placed on county workers & what happens when that burden is excessive. As a long time Hennepin County volunteer...
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Promoting Prisons As Public Policy
I recently toured Richard Ross Juvenile In Justice museum display in Reno NV. Heart rending photos of ten and twelve year old children in America’s justice system. So powerfully does his...
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New York Saves $666 per State Ward Child (Destroying Children & An Important...
New York Ranks 44th in adoption of state ward children and 40th in moving children off of the state ward list (NY Times 1.27.13 SMALL SAVINGS, BUT CHILDREN PAY THE PRICE). At a cost of about $666/per...
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Stone Arch Discussion Group KARA Discussion June 8th 8 – 9:30
If you have not heard, or it has been awhile since you last heard, the Invisible Children talk, join me at the: Join us for coffee and treats and an enlightening conversation about improving the lives...
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CASA guardian ad-Litem News From Around The Nation
Without court appointed CASA volunteers, America’s abused and neglected children have no voice in the homes they are raised in or the courts that manage their lives in foster care. States like...
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Connect To CASA’s (Court Appointed Special Advocate’s) Around The Nation (300)
This page is a compilation of the hundreds 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...
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Best & Worst States For America’s Children
Where does your state rank in protecting children & what can you do to make improvements. These stories tell the best and worst of what’s happening around the nation (and in Japan) Worst...
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Thank You Ruben Rosario (for today’s powerful Pioneer Press article...
Ruben Rosario’s Pioneer Press article Today captures the voicelessness and invisibility of children in child protection systems and the great need they have for health care and early learning and...
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TPT/KARA Movie Trailer (2 minutes)
Friends of KARA, watch our 2 minute movie trailer and share it with your friends, 2 minute KARA/TPT television trailer Support KARA’s efforts to tell the story of child abuse in our community...
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Support MN CASA Guardian ad-Litem Program (with a year end gift)
December 11, 2014 Dear Friends of KARA, please support CASA MN with a year end gift here (and share this with your friends) “To give a child a volunteer advocate is to give them a voice. To give them a...
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Nothing Just Fine About It
At the end of a recent KARA presentation about child abuse and child protection in our community at a metro Kiwanis, a University Professor argued strongly that child protection was working “just fine”...
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San Francisco Chronicle Article Rob Waters (it’s been 10 years and not much...
reprinted from Sunday, February 12, 2006 (SF Chronicle) One Child, One Therapist/An innovative program partners foster children with therapists for as long as they’re needed, providing a stability...
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CASA guardian ad-Litem News Around The Nation 10.1.15 Through 12.31.15
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...
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February Sad Stories (2016 KARA reporting)
February, 2016 in Child Death, Crime and Courts, Health and Mental Health, International Child Abuse, Invisible Children, Kids At Risk Action (KARA), Politics and Funding, Public Policy, Resources,...
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I’m Not The Crazy One (20,000 one & two year old’s on Prozac – now that’s crazy)
90% of mental health hospital beds that were available in the 1960’s are gone today while our overall population grew over 75% in that time. When America eliminated mental health hospitals in the...
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August Sad Stories (part 1)
KARA tracks current news about at risk children bringing transparency and attention to our youngest and most vulnerable citizens. Please note that what you see here is only a sampling of what should...
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August Sad Stories 2016 (part II)
KARA tracks current news about at risk children bringing transparency and attention to our youngest and most vulnerable citizens. Please note that what you see here is only a sampling of what should...
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Foster Care & Adoption In America (families and change needed) 2016
Almost every state needs more foster / adoptive families. This shortage reflected in the articles and stories below point to one more overwhelmed part of America’s troubled child protection system....
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December 2016 Sad Stories Part 1
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...
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February Sad Stories 2017 Part I
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...
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