Mental health

Everything on mental health

2026 · 24 articles

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

  July 23, 2026

• Working With Childhood Trauma (what parents can do)

  July 20, 2026

• What You Can Do Series – School Principals

  July 19, 2026

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

  July 11, 2026

• Childhood Trauma and Lifelong ACES Impact

  June 24, 2026

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

  June 19, 2026

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

  June 13, 2026

• Tip of the Mental Health Iceberg (podcast)

  May 30, 2026

• Foster Child Self-Harm & Suicide June 2025

  May 27, 2026

• Very Young Children, Suicide, and Abuse: What We, CPS, and Lawmakers Must Do

  May 25, 2026

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

  May 18, 2026

• Child Sex Abuse & The Most Powerful Suicide Note Ever (Bill Zeller from 2011)

  May 7, 2026

• Child Abuse & Prosecution in Texas: Kids, Courts, and a Broken System

  May 6, 2026

• Sometimes People Get Shot

  May 4, 2026

• What Principals and Administrators Can Do to Keep Children Safe and Help Them Heal

  April 8, 2026

• One Safe Adult, One Stable Place: The Hidden Power of Stability for Children

  April 6, 2026

• LGBTQ Children, Even More Miserable Foster Care, and Suicide

  March 13, 2026

• What You Can Do Series - What Therapists Can Do

  March 11, 2026

• What You Can Do Series - School Counselors Can Do

  March 5, 2026

• Education 2026 - Educating At Risk Children (what tomorrow looks like)

  March 2, 2026

• LGBTQ Foster Care, Suicide, & Ground Truths (podcast #3 in KARA's foster care series)

  February 20, 2026

• Habits and Needs of High ACEs Children

  February 17, 2026

• Child Abuse Statistics (and the best resources)

  February 4, 2026

• The Multiple Meanings of Child Neglect in Law (& what it means to families)

  January 16, 2026

2025 · 11 articles

• Mental Health Video & Podcast Resources for Abused & Neglected Children & Trauma Survivors

  December 7, 2025

• Free & Near Free Mental Health Resources For Abused Children & Trauma Survivors

  December 6, 2025

• What You Can Do Series - Foster Parents

  November 10, 2025

• School Counselors & Why We Need Them

  November 3, 2025

• Making Life More Miserable For the Most Vulnerable Children In America

  October 29, 2025

• Sad Stories About Child Abuse in America Today

  October 21, 2025

• Child Abuse Sad Stories (4 days in October)

  October 9, 2025

• Child Friendly Models That Work Series (part 3)

  September 21, 2025

• Child Suicide Reporting July & August 2025

  August 26, 2025

• The War On Fosters

  January 23, 2025

• Tip of Children's Mental Health Iceberg

  January 8, 2025

2024 · 12 articles

• 2025 - A Happier New Year For At Risk Children

  December 30, 2024

• Suicide, Child Abuse and Christmas

  December 14, 2024

• If I Only Had a Brain

  October 20, 2024

• Child Welfare News Fall 2024 (compiled articles)

  September 12, 2024

• Schools, Child Suicide, Nurses, & COVID

  August 17, 2024

• What Teachers Are Facing Today and Tomorrow

  August 11, 2024

• Recent Child Suicide and Self-Harm Articles Around the Nation

  June 20, 2024

• Parsing the Data (how child abuse impacts your community)

  June 3, 2024

• Child Suicide - Quick Facts

  May 31, 2024

• New Child Fatalities Database (thank you Safe Passage for Children of MN)

  May 10, 2024

• Education in 2024 - Educating At Risk Children (what tomorrow looks like)

  April 4, 2024

• America's CHILDHOOD TRAUMA and ACES Impact

  March 14, 2024

2023 · 6 articles

• Children & Gun Violence (as American as Apple Pie)

  October 6, 2023

• Hospital Mental health services closing across America May 12 – June 16 2023

  June 16, 2023

• 73% Increase in Suicide Attempts by Suicide 10-12 Year-Olds

  April 21, 2023

• Child & Youth Suicides Feb 2023 (find your state here)

  March 11, 2023

• Alito's Story

  February 23, 2023

• The Real World of Child Abuse (statistics)

  February 10, 2023

2022 · 3 articles

• Today's Tip of The Tip of Children's Mental Health Iceberg

  December 28, 2022

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

  September 17, 2022

• When Hope Dies (child suicide & self harm - part 1)

  September 15, 2022

2021 · 11 articles

• I tried to kill myself in the third grade

  December 11, 2021

• Human Rights and the Psychotropic Medicating of Children

  November 16, 2021

• Covid Related Youth Mental Health Crisis

  November 14, 2021

• Mental Health Help

  September 16, 2021

• CDC Charts Mental Health & Child Suicide Pre COVID

  September 14, 2021

• Our Creeping Mental Health Crisis (& statistics)

  September 8, 2021

• Recent Child Self-Harm & Suicide (state reporting summer 2021)

  September 4, 2021

• Trauma & Child Self-Harm

  June 1, 2021

• COVID Complicates the Mental Health of Traumatized Children

  May 28, 2021

• It's Inevitable (police shootings)

  March 19, 2021

• Child Protection/Unassigned CASA Guardian ad Litem Cases

  March 1, 2021

2020 · 11 articles

• A Free & Powerful Mental Health Resource For Minnesota Children

  December 10, 2020

• COVID & Child Suicide November 2020

  November 21, 2020

• Lawsuits and the Death of Two Year Old Arianna Hunziker

  November 20, 2020

• New CDC Youth Data - STD's, Mental Health, Drug Use & Suicide

  October 23, 2020

• Child Suicide Reporting (3 weeks ending 10.17.20)

  October 18, 2020

• Policing, COVID & Abused Children (share with your law enforcement contacts & save a child)

  October 9, 2020

• Signs That You Are a Mental Health Worker

  September 14, 2020

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

  April 13, 2020

• Child & LGBTQ Suicide & Self-Harm (stories, statistics & trauma informed resources)

  February 9, 2020

• Domestic Violence to a Five Year Old (living in a house of terror)

  January 26, 2020

• Child Homicides & A Week After Redlake (from 2005 - what's changed?)

  January 22, 2020

2019 · 13 articles

• Group Home's (the nightmare of mental health services for abused children)

  December 2, 2019

• KARA & 4th Annual Law Enforcement & Social Services Conference

  October 15, 2019

• Healthy Students - Healthy Schools

  September 29, 2019

• The Cost of Saving Money

  August 29, 2019

• Sad Stories June 2019 (III - child suicide)

  June 22, 2019

• Recent Child Suicide & Self-Harm Reporting & Statistics (Part III)

  May 23, 2019

• Canada's Injustice to Indigenous Children (statistics & solutions)

  May 2, 2019

• Child Abuse - Minnesota's Public Health Issue

  April 19, 2019

• What It's Like Outstate For At Risk Children - Ogema Today

  March 21, 2019

• Recent Child Suicide Reports & Statistics (part IV)

  January 5, 2019

• Recent Child Suicide Reports & Statistics (part III)

  January 4, 2019

• Recent Child Suicide Reports & Statistics (part II)

  January 3, 2019

• Recent Child Suicide Reports & Statistics (part I)

  January 2, 2019

2018 · 14 articles

• The Economics of Mental Illness (from KARA 2005)

  September 27, 2018

• Child Abuse Death & Suicide August/September 2018 page 2 (sad stories)

  September 27, 2018

• Child Abuse Death & Suicide August/September 2018 page 1 (sad stories)

  September 27, 2018

• Drugging Children (August Sad Stories 2018)

  September 22, 2018

• National Suicide Prevention Month and Children

  September 11, 2018

• Medicating Very Young Children July 2018 (part 6)

  August 16, 2018

• Child Trauma and Torture Reporting for July 2018 (part 5)

  August 13, 2018

• Child Abuse & the Developing Brain (thank you Sonya Sasser)

  July 19, 2018

• Fixing MN's Broken Mental Health Systems (thank you Sue Abderholden)

  July 16, 2018

• Criminalizing Mental Illness (statistics & stories)

  July 2, 2018

• Children at the Border "Torture; "extended exposure to violence and deprivation" (World Health Organization's definition of torture)

  June 20, 2018

• Police & Lack of Coordination (thank you Safe Passage for Children)

  May 4, 2018

• Child Suicides - what's left unsaid

  May 1, 2018

• Prosecuting Legislators (can this work?)

  March 6, 2018

2017 · 6 articles

• The Beatings Will Continue Until the Morale Improves (it's all your fault)

  September 24, 2017

• Mental Health Service Calls Police & Health Care (thank you Minnetonka Officer Scott Marks & HCMC)

  August 20, 2017

• A Brief History of Four Year Olds and Prozac

  July 4, 2017

• Teaching In a Strange Land (mental health workers without training)

  January 17, 2017

• Body Memories - Why Child Sex Abuse Never Ends (letters from survivors and non survivors)

  January 5, 2017

• Pennsylvania Child Protection News December 2016

  January 5, 2017

2016 · 21 articles

• Minnesota's Mental Health Problem (probably your state's mental health problem too)

  December 15, 2016

• Children’s Mental Health, Prozac and You (suicide & other self-harming behaviors)

  November 14, 2016

• Minnesota Child Protection Stories September 2016

  October 24, 2016

• Best ACEs Articles for August 2016

  September 14, 2016

• Pennsylvania Child Protection News July & August 2016

  September 5, 2016

• Police Shootings & You and Me

  August 20, 2016

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

  August 11, 2016

• Minnesota’s Back Story; Treating Children’s Mental Health

  August 7, 2016

• Best ACEs Articles for July 2016

  August 1, 2016

• International Child Protection News June 2016

  June 29, 2016

• A Wish List For At Risk Children

  June 22, 2016

• I'm Not The Crazy One (20,000 one & two year old's on Prozac - now that's crazy)

  June 10, 2016

• Minnesota's Mental Health Crisis (spot on reporting by our Star Tribune - Many Thanks)

  June 5, 2016

• Federal Lawsuit Brought Against County in Suicidal Death of 6 Year Old Kendrea Johnson

  May 16, 2016

• New Jersey Child Protection News October 2015 through April 2016

  May 12, 2016

• MN Suicide – Child Suicide - What We Don’t Know

  May 7, 2016

• ACES Connection (articles from April)

  May 2, 2016

• Mental Health, Prozac, Holding Pens, Children & Sheriffs - (why nurses, teachers, social workers & foster / adoptive parents need to speak out)

  April 19, 2016

• Child Protection - What Needs To Change

  March 8, 2016

• Mental Health Shortages, Sheriffs & Children

  January 29, 2016

• Child Death & Drugs (send KARA your stories)

  January 18, 2016

2015 · 23 articles

• San Francisco Chronicle Article Rob Waters (it's been 10 years and not much has changed)

  December 17, 2015

• What's It Like?

  October 20, 2015

• Dirty Little Secrets

  October 1, 2015

• Big Pharma vs. 5 Year Olds (and the loser is,)

  September 16, 2015

• Thank You Prairie Care & Washburn Center For Children's Mental Health (the uphill battle in addressing children's mental health in Minnesota)

  September 2, 2015

• The Power of Coping Skills & Life Without Them

  August 10, 2015

• How We Punish - And What It Does To Children & Our Community

  August 6, 2015

• All Talk & No Action - Do We Value Children or Just Talk About It?

  July 22, 2015

• Minnesota's Child Protection Problem ("the deeper you get into it, the worse it is" Hennepin County Commissioner Mike Opat)

  July 8, 2015

• Child Protection Stories Around the Nation (find your state here)

  May 6, 2015

• Sherriff's For Pre K (save our children)

  April 23, 2015

• Without Understanding Core Issues, Better Answers Are Hard To Come By (or why legislators need more information to do their jobs well)

  April 21, 2015

• Mental Health - Connect The Dots (the hidden dangers of antidepressents and children)

  April 10, 2015

• Drugging Our Kids

  March 23, 2015

• "Police & Sheriffs More Concerned About People's Mental Health Than Advocates Are" (thank you Senator Barb Goodwin)

  March 23, 2015

• Psych Drugs Action Campaign (from the National Center for Youth Law)

  March 18, 2015

• Hiding Child Suicide Hurts Everyone (until it exists - nothing will change)

  March 8, 2015

• SMART JUSTICE - Mental Health Police in Texas

  March 4, 2015

• 1% of U.S. Family Courts Are Safe Baby Courts

  February 25, 2015

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

  January 24, 2015

• Child Protection, Kendrea Johnson & The Information War

  January 20, 2015

• Minneapolis 6 Year (Kendrea Johnson) Old Hangs Herself? (police left to ponder - I don't) Star Tribune Today

  January 15, 2015

• Powerful Video Expose On Drugging 5 & 10 Year Old State Ward Children

  January 9, 2015

2014 · 8 articles

• Recent Mental Health Guidelines For Psychotropic Medications and Three Year Olds (I certainly don't like them)

  November 28, 2014

• Why Are So Many Six Year Olds On Prozac?

  September 2, 2014

• 10,000 Two and Three Year Olds On Psychotropic Meds (we will pay for this)

  May 17, 2014

• MN Public TV / KARA Partnership (bringing attention to the issues of abused & neglected children)

  May 14, 2014

• Tip Of The Iceberg - Medicating Six Year Olds

  April 21, 2014

• Join Our INVISIBLE CHILDREN Linked In Discussions

  March 14, 2014

• It's How You Frame The Issue

  March 5, 2014

• Paranoid Golden Valley Residents Drive Children's Mental Health Services Out Of Town

  February 22, 2014

2013 · 16 articles

• Punishing The Mentally Ill (Minnesota is not alone)

  December 11, 2013

• Big Pharma - Who Do We Blame?

  November 24, 2013

• How We Treat Children

  November 20, 2013

• Mental Health Public Policy - Seeking Your Input

  October 6, 2013

• America’s Amazingly False Answers To Mental Health Issues

  September 8, 2013

• Punishing Mental Health Problems With Horrid Juvenile Justice; In Many States, This Is The Rule, Not The Exception

  August 11, 2013

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

  July 21, 2013

• A Big Step For Mental Health In Minnesota (and hopefully your state next)

  July 12, 2013

• San Francisco: 1 in 3 Gay School Youth Attempt Suicide & 1 in 2 Transgender Students (Center for Disease Control)

  June 7, 2013

• Mental Health Month (we all have nutsey behaviors - let's talk about it)

  May 21, 2013

• A Different War On Drugs (fought by children)

  April 5, 2013

• Magic Potions For Children

  April 3, 2013

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

  April 1, 2013

• The Institution of Abusing Children In Georgia

  March 30, 2013

• A New Standard For Disaster; Tennessee (802 child deaths in 2011)

  March 13, 2013

• Another Sad Truth For Troubled Children

  February 25, 2013

2012 · 11 articles

• Healing Through Creative Arts, Education & Advocacy (or, things I stole from the Surviving Spirit Website)

  December 29, 2012

• Our Only Hope For A Safe, Livable America; Talking About Mental Health

  December 16, 2012

• America The Beautiful (unless you're born an at risk child)

  November 5, 2012

• What David Brooks Didn’t Say

  October 2, 2012

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

  August 2, 2012

• Michael Swanson, Jeff Weise, James Holmes, Virginia Tech; Tons of Avoidable Pain

  July 20, 2012

• A Note On Paxil, Wellbutrin, Avandia & GlaxoSmithKline's Paying Kickbacks to Doctors & Treating Children With Unapproved Psychotropic Medications

  July 2, 2012

• Goodbye Ron Mahla

  June 4, 2012

• Institutional Bullying & Suicide; Bishop Gene Robinson

  April 16, 2012

• It Can't Happen Here

  April 13, 2012

• Child Abuse & The Most Powerful Suicide Note Ever

  March 8, 2012

2011 · 7 articles

• Penn State, Child Rape, & Suicide— Child Sex Abuse Is Not Just Another Crime

  November 14, 2011

• Thank You Indiana

  October 23, 2011

• Military Suicides & Child Abuse; A Growing Problem

  July 15, 2011

• Child Rights & Safety; Advanced Nation or Emerging Nation?

  June 10, 2011

• The Scandal Of Medicating Very Young Children In Child Protection Systems

  February 20, 2011

• Autism, Child Protection, & Insurance; Texas could save 2Billion$ by treating autistic children

  February 6, 2011

• America's Children, Mental Health, Addiction, Medication

  January 2, 2011

2010 · 11 articles

• More About Four & Seven Year Old Suicides, Prozac & A Veterans Day Message

  November 11, 2010

• Files Released On Foster Teen Who Committed Suicide

  November 6, 2010

• We're Number 1, & that's not good…

  October 15, 2010

• Back To School & In Support of Education

  September 5, 2010

• Counterpoint To Yesterday's Post

  July 25, 2010

• America's Children, Mental Health, & Society

  May 7, 2010

• Drugs Without Therapy Is Ineffective & Can Be Dangerous

  April 25, 2010

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

  April 2, 2010

• Children's Health Trends

  February 22, 2010

• Civil Justice, Mental Health, Children, Education, & Politics

  February 17, 2010

• Juvenile Injustice - Mental Health

  February 11, 2010

2009 · 5 articles

• New York, Meet Missouri

  December 14, 2009

• America's Families (From Grief Speaks)

  December 13, 2009

• Unmaking At Risk Children

  November 12, 2009

• Amy Sherman's Blog for Florida's At Risk Children

  June 21, 2009

• Study: Early Therapy Can Save Teens From Depression

  June 5, 2009

2008 · 1 articles

• PTSD study of abused children

  September 28, 2008

2007 · 1 articles

• Saving Ourselves From the Next Virginia Tech

  April 25, 2007

2006 · 3 articles

• Moving

  August 27, 2006

• Call To Justice Forum June 28th

  June 30, 2006

• Talking About It

  March 5, 2006

2005 · 6 articles

• Is Undertreatment of Mental Health Counter-Productive?

  December 4, 2005

• Mental Health Issues

  June 9, 2005

• What we do to our children

  May 3, 2005

• A Normal Kid

  April 26, 2005

• Reality Training

  March 18, 2005

• The Value of Healthy Children

  March 5, 2005