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• Remembering Young LGBTQ Lives & Moving Interview (guest post)

  August 10, 2026

• Punishment Does Not Heal Childhood Trauma, Trauma-Informed Care Does

  August 8, 2026

• The Economic Cost of Childhood Trauma in America

  August 8, 2026

• A Modest Proposal (satire & similarities)

  August 7, 2026

• Yesterday’s State Of The Child Summit (Children In Legal Proceedings) at Hamline University

  August 7, 2026

• What Attorneys General Can Do: Champion Child Safety, Systemic Reform, and Lasting Accountability

  August 6, 2026

• What Governors Can Do: Executive Leadership for Child Safety, Healing, and Systemic Change

  August 6, 2026

• City and County Lawmakers: Local Government as a Child Protection Engine

  August 6, 2026

• What Mayors and County Administrators Can Do: Building Safer, Healthier Communities for Children

  August 6, 2026

• What State Lawmakers Can Do: Turning the Tide for Children’s Safety, Healing, and Well-Being

  August 6, 2026

• Why Police Can’t Fix Toxic Homes: Rethinking How We Protect Children

  August 5, 2026

• How I Can Help At-Risk Teens Where I Live

  August 2, 2026

• How I Can Help: Protecting At‑Risk Children in My Community

  August 2, 2026

• What the Future Holds For At-Risk Children In America

  August 1, 2026

• What Psychiatrists Can Do: Restorative Practice in Children’s Mental Health

  August 1, 2026

• The Child Placement Crisis: Why Kids Are Living in Hotels Instead of Homes

  July 29, 2026

• How I Can Help: CASA Guardian Ad Litems (in their words)

  July 28, 2026

• Children Are Dying On Your Watch (said the judge to CPS)

  July 27, 2026

• If Lawmakers Only Knew: Why CPS Needs De‑Identified Longitudinal Family Records

  July 26, 2026

• Update: Minnesota’s Supreme Court Council on Child Protection and Maltreatment Prevention

  July 26, 2026

• Project 2025 and Children: How Federal Cuts Are Dismantling Supports Kids Need to Survive and Thrive

  July 26, 2026

• What Physicians Can Do: Healing, Preventing, and Championing Child Safety

  July 24, 2026

• A CPS Reality Check (good for admin – bad for children)

  July 23, 2026

• Closing Group Homes, Child Sex Abuse, Suicide & Costs (where you live)

  July 23, 2026

• Fixing Non Transparency in Child Protective Services (& why we should)

  July 23, 2026

• What Childcare Workers Can Do: Building Safety, Trust, and Resilience from the Earliest Years

  July 22, 2026

• What Mandated Reporters Can Do: Turning Knowledge Into Protection, Action, and Healing

  July 22, 2026

• Making CPS Work For Everyone part 2

  July 22, 2026

• What School Boards Can Do: Trauma Informed Policies That Protect Students and Improve Schools

  July 21, 2026

• What Teachers Can Do: Trauma Informed Classrooms That Transform Students’ Lives

  July 20, 2026

• Working With Childhood Trauma (what parents can do)

  July 20, 2026

• America’s Child Brides: Jerry Lee Lewis, Legal Loopholes, and the Rights We Deny Our Children

  July 20, 2026

• Efficiency vs. Children’s Lives: How Ned & KARA Expose Failures in Child Protection

  July 19, 2026

• Rana Plaza, Children, and Corporate Responsibility – KARA

  July 19, 2026

• Rana Plaza Disaster: Factory Collapse, Child Labour, and Corporate Responsibility

  July 19, 2026

• What You Can Do Series – School Principals

  July 19, 2026

• Youth Tried as Adults: Life Sentences, Trauma, and the Failure of America’s Juvenile Justice System

  July 15, 2026

• Family Assessment and Child Death from Star Tribune Child Abuse Reporting

  July 14, 2026

• Who Will Speak For Abused & Neglected Children? video

  July 13, 2026

• KARA Conversations – Growing Childhood Trauma Awareness Where You Live

  July 12, 2026

• United Nations Youth Conference (2007 – what’s changed for abused children?)

  July 12, 2026

• Parental Drug Use Killing Children in Pennsylvania at High Rates (investigative report)

  July 12, 2026

• What Mandated Reporters Can Do: Turning Knowledge Into Protection, Action, and Healing

  July 12, 2026

• Global Value Chains and the Power of Multinational Enterprises (MNEs)

  July 11, 2026

• Corporate Power, Global Value Chains and Child Labour in Bangladesh

  July 11, 2026

• Child Protection in the Dark: How Our Blind Spots in CPS Are Costing Taxpayers, Children, and Communities

  July 11, 2026

• Childhood Trauma, Suicide, and a CPS System Flying Blind

  July 11, 2026

• Arizona’s Hidden Child Trauma: KARA Deep Dive Into Child Abuse

  July 11, 2026

• Alaska’s Hidden Child Trauma: Beyond CPS Number

  July 9, 2026

• When Trauma Walks Into Class: Student on Teacher Violence, ACEs, and the Cost of Ignoring Childhood Abuse

  July 9, 2026

• Invisible Hours: Child Labour in Bangladesh’s Toxic Informal Economy

  July 7, 2026

• Resources and What You Can Do For Foster and At Risk Children

  July 7, 2026

• Ending Meaningful Child Protection in America

  July 6, 2026

• Foster Care Realities, Problems, and Solutions

  July 5, 2026

• Child Labour in Fast Fashion: How Our Clothing Choices Harm Children

  July 5, 2026

• KARA's Invisible Children Traveling Community Conversations

  July 3, 2026

• Join KARA's Children’s Crusade: Making Life, Liberty, and Happiness Real for Abused and Neglected Children

  July 2, 2026

• What Happens When Foster Teens Get Punished Instead of Treated? A CASA’s View From the Front Line

  July 2, 2026

• Self-Destructive Habits of Institutions

  July 1, 2026

• Minnesota Children Killed By Caregivers While Known to CPS (& how to stop it)

  June 30, 2026

• Overwhelmed Institutions & Public Policy

  June 29, 2026

• Building KARA’s National Child Abuse Data & Solutions Platform: Why We Need Your Help

  June 29, 2026

• Leadership and Child Protection

  June 28, 2026

• Kudos to Wisconsin for Tracking Child Death and Egregious Harm

  June 28, 2026

• Only One Country Denies Children Basic Rights: The United States

  June 27, 2026

• Why Every State Needs a Foster Led Child Welfare Promise

  June 26, 2026

• Child Abuse Prevention In America (videos & articles)

  June 26, 2026

• Best and Worst States for Very Young Children in CPS: New Data on Risk, Failures, and Hope

  June 25, 2026

• Childhood Trauma and Lifelong ACES Impact

  June 24, 2026

• Mandated Reporting and Why We Don't

  June 23, 2026

• CASA Minnesota Guardian ad Litem Opportunities

  June 22, 2026

• Fixing CPS - (35 Minute Podcast)

  June 21, 2026

• Thank You Cyndy Etler (don’t lock them up)

  June 20, 2026

• 2 year-old Lylah Koob's Death & Why (from the Safe Passage Report)

  June 19, 2026

• Child Abuse and Child Protection Stories & Statistics Arizona & Arkansas

  June 19, 2026

• 2 Year-Old Sophia O'Neill Death & Why (from the Safe Passage Investigative Report)

  June 19, 2026

• International Rights of the Child Treaty (& why jails are full)

  June 19, 2026

• Adoption & Foster Care In America – (their stories, your state)

  June 19, 2026

• Impossible Questions & Painful Statistics

  June 19, 2026

• CPS Intake Notes (what it's like from the inside)

  June 19, 2026

• Politics & Children - A Zero Sum Game

  June 19, 2026

• Arming Teachers/Shooting Students (advocating for less violence and a more civil society)

  June 19, 2026

• MN Has 3rd Highest Sex Trafficking Cases in U.S.

  June 19, 2026

• Best & Worst States For America's Children

  June 19, 2026

• Childhood Trauma Is a War Injury: How ACEs Rewire the Brain and Fuel Crime

  June 16, 2026

• Anna's Story (Transgender Youth Interview & Statistics)

  June 13, 2026

• KARA Podcasts: Powerful Conversations About Interrupting and Ending Child Abuse

  June 13, 2026

• The Real Cost of Child Maltreatment, CPS, and Recidivism

  June 12, 2026

• Misconceptions About CPS and Child Welfare: What the Research Really Shows

  June 11, 2026

• Invisible Children: The 200 Lives Lost in Child Protective Services

  June 10, 2026

• Fear and Firing of Mandated Reporters (KARA podcast)

  June 9, 2026

• Why America’s Child Protection System Is Failing—and How to Fix It

  June 8, 2026

• How One Letter Saved a Child (KARA Podcast)

  June 8, 2026

• When Is Child Abuse a Crime

  June 7, 2026

• KARA Digital Toolkit: Free and Low Cost Tech for Traumatized Children and Teens

  June 7, 2026

• How Foster Care and Group Homes Fail America’s Most Troubled Children

  June 6, 2026

• How Alcohol, Drugs, and Poverty Drive Child Abuse: From Fetal Alcohol Syndrome to Criminal Neglect

  June 6, 2026

• “Safety” at Home, Rape in Secret: The Long Shadow of Caregiver Sexual Abuse

  June 6, 2026

• America’s Child Abuse Emergency: 546,000 Victims, 2,000 Deaths, and a System That Chooses This

  June 6, 2026

• The War on Fosters: How America’s Foster Care System Fails Youth

  June 6, 2026

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