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Foster Care & Adoption In America (families and change needed)
Every state needs more foster / adoptive families and better emergency shelters for abused children. The shortage reflected in the articles and stories below point to one more overwhelmed part of...
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Child Abuse – Numbers & Why They Matter (thank you Chris Serres & Star Tribune)
Yesterday’s Star Tribune reporting by Chris Serres that child abuse reports in this state have almost doubled since 2009 is not the end of the story. Funding for 108 social workers in response to the...
View ArticleStone 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: Stone Arch Discussion Group (coffee and treats are available) When:Sat, June 8, 8:00am –...
View ArticleCASA 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 homes they live in foster care. States like Virginia are now...
View ArticleConnect 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. See what other CASA volunteers are doing - send us your stories...
View ArticleBest & 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...
View ArticleThank You Ruben Rosario (for today’s powerful Pioneer Press article...
"In the spirit of a) enlightened self-interest and b) in order to form a more perfect union, we the people of Minnesota declare that all children have an equal right to preventative health care (the...
View ArticleTPT/KARA Movie Trailer (2 minutes)
Friends of KARA, watch our 2 minute movie trailer here 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
View ArticleSupport MN CASA Guardian ad-Litem Program (with a year end gift)
support CASA MN with a year end gift here; “To give a child a volunteer advocate is to give them a voice. To give them a voice is to give them hope, and to give them hope is to give them the world. I...
View ArticleNothing 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"...
View ArticleSan 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...
View ArticleCASA 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 research and...
View ArticleFebruary Sad Stories (2016 KARA reporting)
AZ: DCS Completing More Investigations, But Court Cases Increase (Includes audio) KJZZ - January 29, 2016 After years of struggling, Arizona's child welfare agency says it's making progress. A recent...
View ArticleI’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 40% in that time. When America eliminated mental health hospitals in the 60's,...
View ArticleAugust 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...
View ArticleAugust 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 be...
View ArticleDecember 2016 Sad Stories Part 1
MD: Youth homelessness in Baltimore higher than previously thought The Baltimore Sun - November 30, 2016 More than 1,400 young people under the age of 25 were unaccompanied by a parent or guardian,...
View ArticleAugust Sad Stories Part I
American states are struggling to find answers for saving at risk children and reversing the explosive growth of child abuse and neglect. Today, many state ward children are the 4th and 5th generation...
View ArticleSeptember Sad Stories 2017 Part II
OH: Greene County in need of additional foster families Xenia Daily Gazette - August 31, 2017 Greene County Children's Services has seen a 22 percent increase in new children services cases from 2015...
View ArticleA Note to Brandon Stahl & the Tribune (abused children still need you)
It is only because you found the death of 4 year-old Eric Dean suspicious and dedicated yourself to reporting on the awful circumstances that killed him after 15 ignored reports of child abuse, that...
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