Funding and accountability

Everything on funding and accountability

2026 · 36 articles

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

  July 19, 2026

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

  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

• Ending Meaningful Child Protection in America

  July 6, 2026

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

  July 5, 2026

• Leadership and Child Protection

  June 28, 2026

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

  June 19, 2026

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

  June 19, 2026

• Politics & Children - A Zero Sum Game

  June 19, 2026

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

  June 12, 2026

• Part 4 of 5: Why Early Childhood Investment Outperforms Remedial Spending

  May 31, 2026

• Recruiting Child Soldiers (yes, we do)

  May 24, 2026

• Invisible Cost Child Abuse ACEs Healthcare Impact

  May 21, 2026

• Part 5 of 5: Crime Dollar ROI From Early Childhood Programs

  May 20, 2026

• Foster Care Mental Health Needs, Costs, and Facts for Minnesota & The Nation

  May 18, 2026

• Children Are Under Attack: How Federal Funding Cuts Are Dismantling Kids’ Lifelines

  May 6, 2026

• Numbers Too Big To Believe (the cost of untreated childhood trauma)

  April 29, 2026

• Modern Slavery in the UK: How the Law Still Fails Children

  April 14, 2026

• Cost Neutral Child Protection: The Deadly Lesson of Gabriel Fernandez

  April 12, 2026

• What Social Workers Can Do: Reclaiming Hope and Safety for At‑Risk Children

  April 7, 2026

• Cash vs. CPS: What $14 Million Really Buys

  March 28, 2026

• “What We Do to Our Children” Is What We Do to Our Future

  March 20, 2026

• Child Abuse Sad Stories & Statistics (1ST 45 days in 2026))

  March 4, 2026

• The Quantum Mechanics of Childhood Abuse & Trauma

  February 28, 2026

• CASA Volunteers Are Coming Back: Why Minnesota Children Need Them

  February 23, 2026

• Minnesota’s Children and Federal Policy: Local Pain For Children From National Decisions

  February 19, 2026

• California Recent Child Abuse Death, Egregious Harm & Child Protection Issues

  February 14, 2026

• The Cost of Children Waiting for Their Voice In Court (Guardian ad Litem)

  February 8, 2026

• What You Can Do Series - School Boards

  February 1, 2026

• Child Safety and MAAFPA Tensions

  January 29, 2026

• Minnesota Family Preservation Law and Child Safety: When “Keep Families Together” Puts Children at Risk

  January 26, 2026

• Deregulation & the Child Abuse Abolition Movement

  January 15, 2026

• Dissecting President Trump's Child Protection Executive Order (share this widely)

  January 11, 2026

• Balancing IP Rights and Children's Right to Health

  January 3, 2026

2025 · 17 articles

• Why the CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocate) Organization Is So Successful (calling all volunteers)

  November 29, 2025

• KARA Concerns About Trump’s Child Protection Order (short version)

  November 19, 2025

• KARA Concerns About Trump's Child Protection Order (deep dive)

  November 19, 2025

• CASA Volunteers Save Money (Multiple State Investigation Results)

  October 2, 2025

• Part 2 CPS Models That Work & Models That Don’t

  September 17, 2025

• High Cost of Ignoring Childhood Trauma (Podcast)

  September 13, 2025

• Recent Compelling Child Welfare League News

  September 1, 2025

• What Makes a Good Guardian ad Litem Program Leader? (part 1)

  August 27, 2025

• Terminating the CASA Volunteer GAL Program Will Cost Children's Lives and Taxpayers Money

  August 14, 2025

• The Assault on Child Protection Part 4 (Racial Disparity)

  July 17, 2025

• The Assault on Child Protection PART 3 (what this will cost)

  July 16, 2025

• The Assault on Child Protection - Part 2

  July 14, 2025

• Worker Bees Speaking Out

  July 11, 2025

• This year’s Budget, Bills, and Abused Children

  June 19, 2025

• MN Guardian ad Litem Program by the Numbers

  June 5, 2025

• National CASA Federal Funding Terminated - Share this with your lawmakers

  April 30, 2025

• There Is No Constituency For Abused & Neglected Children

  February 25, 2025

2024 · 7 articles

• Budget Surplus Fund For Children (how to make a Christmas Miracle)

  November 22, 2024

• If I Only Had a Brain

  October 20, 2024

• Child Abuse Investigations & Reforms

  October 15, 2024

• Fetal Alcohol Births (and a very big policy change)

  July 24, 2024

• Minnesota Child Protection News May 2024

  May 30, 2024

• America's Crazy World of Child Protection (find your state here)

  February 15, 2024

• Were Governor Walz State Board Members Misled About Volunteers (and what it could mean)?

  January 4, 2024

2023 · 9 articles

• MN Children, Institutional Regression and Brain Surgery

  October 31, 2023

• Rich Gehrman Rebuttal of MAD Volunteer Guardian ad Litem Report

  October 18, 2023

• Saving the MN CASA Volunteer Guardian ad Litem Program (1 easy important thing)

  October 9, 2023

• Saying Goodbye to the CASA Guardian ad Litem Volunteer Program

  September 21, 2023

• Hennepin County Child Well-being Advisory Committee Meeting Summary (with KARA notations)

  July 1, 2023

• Saving the CASA Volunteer Community Guardian ad Litem Program

  March 31, 2023

• Math For Legislators (cost of youth crime) Part 1

  February 7, 2023

• Policing Abused Children & How Not To

  January 17, 2023

• Measuring What's Important

  January 7, 2023

2022 · 9 articles

• Criminalizing Elementary School Children

  December 13, 2022

• The Cost of Tough on Crime (in tax dollars and public safety)

  November 12, 2022

• Saving Vulnerable Foster Children - Saving the Volunteer Guardian ad Litem Program

  October 4, 2022

• Is This About Child Protection or Something Else?

  September 19, 2022

• When Hope Dies (child self harm & suicide part 2)

  September 17, 2022

• Recent Child Welfare Articles & Statistics

  September 1, 2022

• Self-Destructive Habits & Institutions (Predicting the future – Part 3)

  July 18, 2022

• American Crime Costs & Statistics

  July 17, 2022

• Other People's Children Are Not Society's Problem - Senator Ron Johnson

  January 30, 2022

2021 · 3 articles

• THE COST OF PUNISHING DAMAGED CHILDREN

  August 4, 2021

• Child Abuse News & Statistics In Your State

  May 16, 2021

• Aged Out Foster Youth Urged To Return (new federal benefits)

  April 1, 2021

2020 · 6 articles

• Criminalizing Elementary School Children (policing our schools & punishment)

  September 26, 2020

• For New Mexico's At Risk Children - Life is Very Hard (find your state here)

  July 18, 2020

• Policing Abused Children & Why It Can't Be Done

  June 28, 2020

• International Child Protection News for April 2020 (the COVID Impact)

  May 10, 2020

• Violence Against Children & Covid19 – (it’s own pandemic) part IV

  April 27, 2020

• Revisiting the Tragic Abusive Death Of Eric Dean (& the legal non requirement of "due care")

  January 10, 2020

2019 · 2 articles

• The Cost of Saving Money

  August 29, 2019

• June Child Abuse 2019 (find your state here)

  June 19, 2019

2018 · 12 articles

• Taxes, Children & a Guardian ad Litem's Perspective

  September 19, 2018

• CASA Guardian ad Litem News for Summer 2018

  July 12, 2018

• Child Welfare State By State for May 2018 (8)

  July 4, 2018

• Child Welfare by State (statistics & news April 2018 (2)

  May 20, 2018

• Child Welfare by State (statistics & news April 2018 (1)

  May 17, 2018

• Child Abuse & Well Being State by State March 2018 (VI)

  April 12, 2018

• Child Well Being & Child Abuse State by State (March 2018) IV

  April 8, 2018

• Child Well Being State By State March 2018 (II)

  April 2, 2018

• Sad Stories Part VIII Feb 1-13 (child protection - find your state here)

  March 27, 2018

• Sad Stories Feb 2018 Part VI (foster care stories and statistics)

  March 22, 2018

• Sad Stories Feb 2018 Part V (child abuse and mental health)

  March 14, 2018

• January Sad Stories 2018 Part I (find your state here)

  February 1, 2018

2017 · 13 articles

• International Child Protection News October thru December 2017

  December 31, 2017

• October Sad Stories 2017 Part I

  October 31, 2017

• September Sad Stories 2017 Part II

  October 7, 2017

• August Sad Stories Part II

  September 20, 2017

• July 2017 Sad Stories Part II

  August 4, 2017

• International At Risk Children's News April 2017

  June 10, 2017

• May Sad Stories Part II

  June 1, 2017

• SAFE PASSAGE FOR CHILDREN MN (Federal audit of MN child welfare shows inadequate metrics, resources, quality assurance & training)

  April 3, 2017

• Sad Stories March 2017 Part II

  March 18, 2017

• What's Wrong With School Choice? (from GADFLYONTHEWALLBLOG)

  February 19, 2017

• February Sad Stories 2017 Part I

  February 19, 2017

• CASA Guardian ad-Litem News Around the Nation December 2016 -January 2017

  February 4, 2017

• January 2017 Sad Stories Part II

  February 2, 2017

2016 · 18 articles

• International Child Protection News December 2016

  December 31, 2016

• October Sad Stories Part II

  November 1, 2016

• August 2016 Sad Stories (Part 3 through August 31)

  September 21, 2016

• We Are All Nuts (the costs and dangers of undertreating and ignoring mental health - thank you Star Tribune)

  August 11, 2016

• International Child Protection News July 2016

  August 8, 2016

• July 2016 Sad Stories Through July 15-29 (part 2)

  July 29, 2016

• June 2016 Sad Stories (part 2)

  July 1, 2016

• June 2016 Sad Stories (part 1)

  June 25, 2016

• Pennsylvania Child Protection News May & June 2016

  June 22, 2016

• Texas Child Protection News For April

  June 3, 2016

• May 2016 Sad Stories

  May 28, 2016

• New York Child Protection News Feb - March 2016

  April 12, 2016

• February Sad Stories (2016 KARA reporting)

  February 26, 2016

• Pennsylvania Child Protection News December 2015

  February 11, 2016

• Pennsylvania Child Protection News November 2015

  February 6, 2016

• January Sad Stories (2016 KARA reporting)

  January 30, 2016

• Minneminds Policy Principles For Early Learning & Child Protection Strategy Work Group Recommendations

  January 15, 2016

• Pennsylvania Child Protection News Sept - Oct 2015

  January 6, 2016

2015 · 7 articles

• Sad Stories November 2015

  November 26, 2015

• New Book Beginnings

  November 21, 2015

• Child Death and Child Abuse Articles (for September 2015 – find your state/country here)

  September 25, 2015

• Indiana Sued For Making Child Protection Almost Impossible

  July 24, 2015

• Minnesota's Chance To Invest In Children & Families (from Governor Mark Dayton's office)

  March 22, 2015

• Are Class Action Lawsuits The Future For Child Protection? (Just filed in Arizona)

  February 5, 2015

• KARA Update & 2015 Children & Youth Issues Briefing Friday January 23rd

  January 24, 2015

2014 · 15 articles

• Elephant In The Room (Mitch Pearlstein PAST Star Tribune)

  November 8, 2014

• Fumbled Child Protection Warnings Cost Children Their LIves (thank you Brandon Stahl- Star Tribune)

  May 19, 2014

• Responding To Toni Carter's Star Tribune Article Yesterday (County Commissioner & Pres MN Assoc. of Counties)

  April 29, 2014

• More Attention To Children's Issues (the only way to make their lives better)

  April 27, 2014

• Snapshot On Florida's Child Protection System (or what's not working)

  April 26, 2014

• See No Evil - 90% Of Child Abuse Reports Screened Out In Minnesota Counties (Red Lake, Wilkin, LeSeur, Waseca)

  April 20, 2014

• Why Teachers Quit Teaching

  April 4, 2014

• 477 Child Deaths In FL (preserving families but costing lives)

  March 18, 2014

• Spanking Babies & Jailing Juveniles (Linked In Conversation)

  March 17, 2014

• Great Discussion On Privatized Foster Care In Georgia (Linked In)

  March 14, 2014

• Comment Thread On The Child Beating Bill In Kansas

  February 27, 2014

• 70 Child Abuse Deaths In California's Child Protection System

  February 20, 2014

• Abused and Neglected Children's News (thank you Child Welfare In The News)

  February 14, 2014

• A Glimmer Of Hope (push for preschool)

  February 3, 2014

• Inside AZ Child Protection Politics

  February 2, 2014

2013 · 15 articles

• 6000 Child Abuse Cases Not Examined In Arizona (putting AZ in 48th place for child well being)

  November 26, 2013

• What We Think Of Children In America

  November 4, 2013

• Massachusetts Child Abuse Up - 30% Fewer Petitions To Remove Children From Abusive Homes

  August 12, 2013

• Child Welfare In The News (find your state - nation here) 100+ articles

  August 8, 2013

• Anoka MN - Saying Yes To Childhood Obesity & Smoking (not great public policy)

  August 2, 2013

• The Accountability Gap in Child Protection (Thank you Safe Passage For Children)

  July 21, 2013

• Mental Health & Education (thank you Star Tribune for this honest conversation)

  July 21, 2013

• CASA guardian ad-Litem News From Around The Nation

  June 6, 2013

• American Exceptionalism; Child Daycare

  April 15, 2013

• Failed To Death In Colorado and Minnesota (thank you Denver Post)

  March 13, 2013

• Bigger Armies & More Wars - Why Americans Hate Children

  February 14, 2013

• Tracking America's Most At Risk Children (Compiled)

  February 8, 2013

• Total Disaster In Tennessee (NV, TN, CA, & TX in Trouble Too) Disappearing Watchdogs Around the Nation

  February 4, 2013

• New York Saves $666 per State Ward Child (Destroying Children & An Important CASA Program)

  January 27, 2013

• Protect Our Kids Act Passed By Congress (with tiny funding; 2M)

  January 7, 2013

2012 · 12 articles

• Child Welfare Policies That U.S. Shun; A Note From David Strand (share this with your state rep)

  December 28, 2012

• Focus On Texas, California, & Florida Child Welfare

  December 19, 2012

• AARP vs. Five Year Olds (Abandoning America's Children)

  October 10, 2012

• Best Interests Of The Child; ICWA, Politics, & Media

  September 7, 2012

• Indiana's At Risk Children & Governor Mitch Daniels;

  August 31, 2012

• Mass Psychosis in the U.S – Important Insights Into Big Pharma, Psychotropics, & Children

  August 2, 2012

• The Cost Of Ignoring Reality

  July 21, 2012

• Good-By CASA?

  April 21, 2012

• From Child Welfare In The News

  April 19, 2012

• Stop The Rape & Abuse of America’s Children - Get Involved In Invisible Children's Mission

  March 17, 2012

• Save Enormous Downstream Costs (Listen Carefully To David Strand's Advice)

  February 29, 2012

• 43 Child Deaths Due Policy Violations In Colorado Social Services

  January 31, 2012

2011 · 2 articles

• It Costs Way Less To Hire & Train Social Workers;$68 Million Settlement Proposed for 10 Children Fraudulently Adopted and Abused

  December 31, 2011

• Nebraska's Privatized Child & Family Welfare Collapse

  October 3, 2011

2010 · 10 articles

• Cancellation of a Successful Education Program

  September 26, 2010

• Art Rolnick & Pliny, Friends of Children

  July 5, 2010

• This Weeks Important At Risk Youth News

  April 18, 2010

• Mental Health, Drug & Alcohol Abuse Programs Don't Cost They Save

  April 2, 2010

• Breaking The Cycle Of Abuse

  March 28, 2010

• Abused & Neglected Children Around The Nation

  March 15, 2010

• Health & Human Services In Minnesota (Largest Share of Budget Cuts)

  February 16, 2010

• Cutting Early Childhood Programs Is Expensive and Ruins Lives

  February 2, 2010

• Friends of Texas vs Friends of Children

  January 25, 2010

• Texas Blog Sequel

  January 20, 2010

2009 · 1 articles

• Minnesota; Let Them Eat New Stadium

  June 25, 2009

2005 · 1 articles

• Missouri Model

  December 17, 2005