The blog in 2024

Newest first

• 2025 - A Happier New Year For At Risk Children

  December 30, 2024

• The Ghost of Christmas Past (the value of healthy children)

  December 22, 2024

• Child Abuse Articles December 2024

  December 20, 2024

• Suicide, Child Abuse and Christmas

  December 14, 2024

• Thank You & Happy Holidays

  December 8, 2024

• Management Not Fit For Purpose

  November 28, 2024

• Child Abuse Sad Stories (4 days in November)

  November 24, 2024

• Fosters, Grandparents & Thanksgiving Hunger

  November 23, 2024

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

  November 22, 2024

• Why Children Need Mandated Reporters

  November 16, 2024

• Realities of Mandated Reporting (why child abuse reporting is sporadic)

  November 15, 2024

• Abolishing CPS Kills Children & Ruins Fosters

  November 13, 2024

• COVIDs Impact on CPS, CASA volunteers, & Guardian ad Litem Staff

  November 3, 2024

• Making CPS Work For Everyone part 1

  October 25, 2024

• If I Only Had a Brain

  October 20, 2024

• Child Abuse Investigations & Reforms

  October 15, 2024

• Child Protection In America Today

  October 12, 2024

• Expecting Different Results From Prison for Kids

  October 9, 2024

• One Question KARA Survey

  September 28, 2024

• KARA - CASA Google Ad Grant Initiative ($120,000 annually)

  September 25, 2024

• Human Services - Beyond Crisis

  September 19, 2024

• Child Welfare News Fall 2024 (compiled articles)

  September 12, 2024

• America's Children In 100 Charts (draft preface)

  September 6, 2024

• Don Samuels' Story (from KARA 2014 archives)

  August 23, 2024

• Thank You Ann Ahlstrom (MN Guardian Ad Litem Board Chair)

  August 22, 2024

• Schools, Child Suicide, Nurses, & COVID

  August 17, 2024

• What Teachers Are Facing Today and Tomorrow

  August 11, 2024

• AMERICA'S CHILDREN IN 100 CHARTS (read book draft)

  August 8, 2024

• Fear and Firing of Mandated Reporters of Child Abuse

  August 6, 2024

• Thank You Highland Banks

  August 1, 2024

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

  July 24, 2024

• Child Protection Intake Notes (through the eyes of a child)

  June 25, 2024

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

  June 20, 2024

• KARA Presentation Janesville CASA (heart of the matter)

  June 15, 2024

• Non-Transparency In Child Protective Services (find your state here)

  June 9, 2024

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

  June 3, 2024

• Child Suicide - Quick Facts

  May 31, 2024

• Minnesota Child Protection News May 2024

  May 30, 2024

• KARA - CASA and Child Advocacy Support Program

  May 19, 2024

• U.S. Child Welfare Articles May 8 & 9 2024 - (From the Children's Bureau)

  May 18, 2024

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

  May 10, 2024

• MN Child Abuse Reporting April 1 - May 9 2024

  May 9, 2024

• Send Your Senator a Message Today (Safe Passage For Children of MN)

  May 3, 2024

• The Best Interest of Children

  May 3, 2024

• CASA of Rock County's Break The Cycle Luncheon

  April 26, 2024

• DATA WORTH HAVING (for making informed decisions)

  April 19, 2024

• Keep Minnesota children safe in Child Protection

  April 12, 2024

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

  April 4, 2024

• Celebrating Minnesota's CASA Guardian Ad Litem Progress

  March 28, 2024

• KARA - CASA Ad Grant Initiative ($120,000 annually)

  March 20, 2024

• Thank you to the Edina Federated Women's Club!

  March 20, 2024

• 200 Child Abuse Calls Each Day (76,000 calls / year)

  March 15, 2024

• America's CHILDHOOD TRAUMA and ACES Impact

  March 14, 2024

• KARA Videos on Child Abuse

  March 14, 2024

• New Linked In Group For Volunteer CASAs & All Guardian ad Litem (interactive)

  March 7, 2024

• Don't Leave It To the Professionals (thank you Naomi Schaefer Riley)

  March 5, 2024

• Leadership and Child Protection

  March 4, 2024

• Professionalism In Child Protection

  February 24, 2024

• A COVID WAVE? (the double whammy of 2 years of ACEs on children and community)

  February 18, 2024

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

  February 15, 2024

• Lies We Tell Ourselves About Child Sex Abuse

  February 12, 2024

• HUGE NEWS: Former Chief Justice Kathleen Blatz Appointed to MN Guardian ad Litem Board

  January 26, 2024

• A Courageous Vote! Thank You Minnesota Guardian ad Litem Board For Saving CASA Volunteer Program

  January 22, 2024

• Saving Minnesota's Vulnerable Children

  January 11, 2024

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

  January 4, 2024

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