The blog in 2012

Newest first

• Better Record Keeping & Higher Standards For Tracking Child Maltreatment & Protection

  December 31, 2012

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

  December 29, 2012

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

  December 28, 2012

• Join Me For A Grand Time & A Great Cause At the CASA MInnesota Auction & Wine Tasting Fundraiser (January 10th)

  December 22, 2012

• Reducing Violence Against Children; Protect Our Kids Act (contact your senator today)

  December 20, 2012

• Focus On Texas, California, & Florida Child Welfare

  December 19, 2012

• Pounding On Children (the beatings continue)

  December 17, 2012

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

  December 16, 2012

• CASA Minnesota Wine Tasting & Silent Auction For a Great Cause (Stop By & Say Hi - January 10th, Buy Your Ticket Today)

  December 13, 2012

• Children Living Under Bridges

  December 12, 2012

• Bastards; How Yesterday’s Rejection Of The Disabilities Treaty Damages America’s Children

  December 5, 2012

• Thank You Houston Texan Receiver Andre Johnson

  December 4, 2012

• Another Asset For Protecting Children; The Law

  December 3, 2012

• CASA Guardian ad-Litem January 10th Wine Tasting Fund Raiser

  December 3, 2012

• Promoting Prisons As Public Policy

  November 30, 2012

• A Response To Harsh & Unfair Comments Made By Unhappy Readers

  November 16, 2012

• Domestic Violence Through A Five Year Old's Eyes

  November 15, 2012

• Make Sure All Minnesota Children Have A Loving Home

  November 13, 2012

• Following Up On The 7 Year Old Foster Boy That Hung Himself & Left An Anti-Prozac Note

  November 11, 2012

• According To The Numbers, Child Abuse In MN; Safe Passage For Children

  November 7, 2012

• Defining Democracy By How It Treats A State Ward Child

  November 5, 2012

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

  November 5, 2012

• A Law Late In Coming, Not Enough, But Glad It's Here (Thank You Governor Mark Dayton)

  November 4, 2012

• Abused Children In MN

  October 29, 2012

• CASA Fundraiser Date Change (Save the Date - Auction Items Needed)

  October 28, 2012

• Indiana Update (current child protection news - thanks again Mitch Daniels)

  October 19, 2012

• A Great Minnesota Network: Minnesota Adoption Resource Network

  October 15, 2012

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

  October 10, 2012

• Arkansas Politics; Death Penalty For Rebellious Children, Charlie Fuqua & His Bible

  October 8, 2012

• What David Brooks Didn’t Say

  October 2, 2012

• Speaking From The Heart In Reno

  September 26, 2012

• Washoe County Nevada CASA Recognition Dinner Weds Sept 19th Keynote Speaker Mike Tikkanen

  September 15, 2012

• Great CASA story

  September 9, 2012

• Cruel & False Savings Are Cheating America’s Abused & Neglected Children (again)

  September 9, 2012

• When Submitting Comments The Use Of Names Can Be Problematic

  September 9, 2012

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

  September 7, 2012

• Everything Seems To Be Wrong With Them; The Other America

  September 3, 2012

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

  August 31, 2012

• Get The Word Out For Invisible Children

  August 30, 2012

• August 27, 2012 CASA “Speaking From the Heart” Recognition Dinner Press Release:

  August 27, 2012

• Today's Grand Magazine Radio Interview Cancelled - it will be rescheduled

  August 22, 2012

• Art Rolnick Ted Talk Video; Federal Reserve Bank Study (Highest Return On The Tax Dollar - At Risk Children)

  August 20, 2012

• School Starts Soon Be Glad It Does; Uneducated Citizens Value Football, Beer, & Reality Shows Above Safe Streets, Healthy Children, or a Functioning Democracy

  August 19, 2012

• Upcoming KARA events; 1) Live Radio Interview 8.22, 2pm Central Time

  August 17, 2012

• National Grandparents Day September 9th & A Great Day To Recognize All Grandparent Caregivers

  August 16, 2012

• Destroying Child Protection Records In Iowa, A Better Iowa For Children?

  August 14, 2012

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

  August 2, 2012

• Little Is Known About Deaths & Serious Injuries To Children In America

  August 1, 2012

• A Note From The Children's Defense Fund

  July 27, 2012

• CASA MN Annual Fundraising Dinner (Items For Auction Needed) You Are Invited

  July 27, 2012

• The Cost Of Ignoring Reality

  July 21, 2012

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

  July 20, 2012

• Free Printed Book With Each Audiobook Order (thru 8.15.12)

  July 19, 2012

• Twin Citites Marathon - Late Registration Supporting Guardian ad-Litem CASAMN

  July 18, 2012

• The Holocaust of Innocence Tour and Documentary

  July 17, 2012

• Bringing Heart & Meaning To Child Protection; CASA Florida Nixes The Ten Foot Pole Rule

  July 14, 2012

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

  July 2, 2012

• Texas Children Being Thrown Into the River by the Tens of Thousands

  June 28, 2012

• Court Rules American Children Will No Longer Be Incarcerated For Life (& we recently quit executing juveniles)

  June 27, 2012

• What’s Wrong With New Jersey’s Half Way Houses Is What’s Wrong With America; The Illusion That Privatizing Social Services Saves Money Or Provides Social Services.

  June 23, 2012

• Being A Child Protection Worker In AZ

  June 19, 2012

• Making Big Money With Abused & Neglected Children; Mississippi Has The Plan

  June 15, 2012

• Child Well Being Minnesota

  June 10, 2012

• Goodbye Ron Mahla

  June 4, 2012

• Louisiana Children Don’t Stand A Chance.

  May 27, 2012

• Not Enough

  May 5, 2012

• ACE Study Highlights

  May 4, 2012

• This Doesn't Change What's Wrong In Kentucky (and elsewhere) For Abused & Neglected Children

  May 1, 2012

• Children Murdered In Kentucky, Governor Beshear Hides The Evidence

  April 30, 2012

• 2 Videos That You Can Use To Support Abused & Neglected Children

  April 28, 2012

• Guardian Ad-Litem News From Around The Nation

  April 28, 2012

• A MN guardian ad-Litem speaks to Montana about child abuse.

  April 27, 2012

• Good-By CASA?

  April 21, 2012

• New ACE Study DVD 3 Minute Preview:

  April 21, 2012

• From Child Welfare In The News

  April 19, 2012

• Child Trauma Academy Newsletter

  April 19, 2012

• Institutional Bullying & Suicide; Bishop Gene Robinson

  April 16, 2012

• It Can't Happen Here

  April 13, 2012

• Guardian ad-Litem Training

  March 31, 2012

• The Commonality Of Child Sex Abuse

  March 26, 2012

• The State Of American Schools (& Stop Blaming Teachers)

  March 24, 2012

• The Laws We Live By

  March 21, 2012

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

  March 17, 2012

• Child Abuse & The Most Powerful Suicide Note Ever

  March 8, 2012

• Bad Teacher, It's All Your Fault

  March 8, 2012

• Thank You Judge Kevin Burke

  March 5, 2012

• Shout Out To Mitch Daniels & the YMCA Volunteers With Special Needs Kids I saw this morning.

  March 3, 2012

• National Center For Youth Law

  March 2, 2012

• Sports, & Entertainment Vs Children, Education, & Public Safety

  March 1, 2012

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

  February 29, 2012

• Lying To Ourselves About Caring, Children, & Religion

  February 28, 2012

• Thank You Colorado Springs Gazette For Your Excellent Child Protection Reporting

  February 22, 2012

• It Can't Happen Here (it Does happen here)

  February 21, 2012

• Adoptees Have Answers - Best Org Ever

  February 19, 2012

• Giving Voice To Abused & Neglected Children At Private Schools

  February 16, 2012

• Race To The Bottom, Untrained Social Workers, Over Work & More Dead & Suffering Children In Indiana

  February 8, 2012

• America; The Worst Child Abuse Record In The Industrialized World

  February 4, 2012

• 43 Child Deaths Due Policy Violations In Colorado Social Services

  January 31, 2012

• Project Unbreakable

  January 30, 2012

• Growing Up Inner City

  January 29, 2012

• Rights Of The Child

  January 28, 2012

• Note To Invisible Children Followers

  January 21, 2012

• How Politics Impact America's Children

  January 8, 2012

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