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

  Mike and the KARA Team · August 10, 2026

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

  Mike and the KARA Team · August 8, 2026

• The Economic Cost of Childhood Trauma in America

  Mike and the KARA Team · August 8, 2026

• A Modest Proposal (satire & similarities)

  Mike and the KARA Team · August 7, 2026

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

  Mike and the KARA Team · August 7, 2026

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

  Mike and the KARA Team · August 6, 2026

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

  Mike and the KARA Team · August 6, 2026

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

  Mike and the KARA Team · August 6, 2026

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

  Mike and the KARA Team · August 6, 2026

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

  Mike and the KARA Team · August 6, 2026

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

  Mike and the KARA Team · August 5, 2026

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

  Mike and the KARA Team · August 2, 2026

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

  Mike and the KARA Team · August 2, 2026

• Schools and education

  What the Future Holds For At-Risk Children In America

  Mike and the KARA Team · August 1, 2026

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

  Mike and the KARA Team · August 1, 2026

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

  Mike and the KARA Team · July 29, 2026

• Family court and termination of parental rights

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

  Mike and the KARA Team · July 28, 2026

• CPS and child protection

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

  Mike and the KARA Team · July 27, 2026

• CPS and child protection

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

  Mike and the KARA Team · July 26, 2026

• CPS and child protection

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

  Mike and the KARA Team · July 26, 2026

• Schools and education

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

  Mike and the KARA Team · July 26, 2026

• Trauma and ACEs

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

  Mike and the KARA Team · July 24, 2026

• CPS and child protection

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

  Mike and the KARA Team · July 23, 2026

• Mental health

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

  Mike and the KARA Team · July 23, 2026

• CPS and child protection

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

  Mike and the KARA Team · July 23, 2026

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

  Mike and the KARA Team · July 22, 2026

• CPS and child protection

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

  Mike and the KARA Team · July 22, 2026

• Making CPS Work For Everyone part 2

  Mike and the KARA Team · July 22, 2026

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

  Mike and the KARA Team · July 21, 2026

• Schools and educationTrauma and ACEs

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

  Mike and the KARA Team · July 20, 2026

• Trauma and ACEsSchools and education

  Working With Childhood Trauma (what parents can do)

  Mike and the KARA Team · July 20, 2026

• Trauma and ACEsSchools and education

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

  Mike and the KARA Team · July 20, 2026

• CPS and child protectionFunding and accountability

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

  Mike and the KARA Team · July 19, 2026

• Rana Plaza, Children, and Corporate Responsibility – KARA

  Mike and the KARA Team · July 19, 2026

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

  Mike and the KARA Team · July 19, 2026

• Schools and educationTrauma and ACEs

  What You Can Do Series – School Principals

  Mike and the KARA Team · July 19, 2026

• Juvenile justiceFamily court and termination of parental rights

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

  Mike and the KARA Team · July 15, 2026

• CPS and child protection

  Family Assessment and Child Death from Star Tribune Child Abuse Reporting

  Mike and the KARA Team · July 14, 2026

• CPS and child protection

  Who Will Speak For Abused & Neglected Children? video

  Mike and the KARA Team · July 13, 2026

• Trauma and ACEsCPS and child protection

  KARA Conversations – Growing Childhood Trauma Awareness Where You Live

  Mike and the KARA Team · July 12, 2026

• Schools and educationTrauma and ACEs

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

  Mike and the KARA Team · July 12, 2026

• CPS and child protection

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

  Mike and the KARA Team · July 12, 2026

• CPS and child protectionSchools and education

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

  Mike and the KARA Team · July 12, 2026

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

  Mike and the KARA Team · July 11, 2026

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

  Mike and the KARA Team · July 11, 2026

• Funding and accountabilityCPS and child protection

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

  Mike and the KARA Team · July 11, 2026

• Trauma and ACEsCPS and child protection

  Childhood Trauma, Suicide, and a CPS System Flying Blind

  Mike and the KARA Team · July 11, 2026

• Legislation and policyCPS and child protection

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

  Mike and the KARA Team · July 11, 2026

• CPS and child protectionFunding and accountability

  Alaska’s Hidden Child Trauma: Beyond CPS Number

  Mike and the KARA Team · July 9, 2026

• Schools and educationTrauma and ACEs

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

  Mike and the KARA Team · July 9, 2026

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