Alabama

Child maltreatment victims
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In foster care on Sept 30
AFCARS, FY2022

May 5, 2026 · KARA Reporting

School Performance, Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow & What To Do

• “Since 2020, national and state test data show steep declines in foundational reading and math skills that are not bouncing back on their own. If current trends hold, by 2034 a majority of U.S. students will need remed

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February 26, 2026 · KARA Reporting

COVID + ICE RAIDS Impacting America's Schools

COVID school closures and ICE raids have combined to drive U.S. reading, math, history, and civics scores to historic lows. This post outlines national NAEP data, the states with the deepest learning loss, and what these

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October 22, 2025 · KARA Reporting

The Importance of Foster Youth Rights (find your State here)

This article is derived from Hana Ikramuddin's excellent Imprint News Article about Fosters not being notified of their rights - Read the Imprint article here. Hana tells us the story of AIayna Ghost’s years in Foster Ca

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August 11, 2024 · KARA Reporting

What Teachers Are Facing Today and Tomorrow

Teachers feel undervalued and overwhelmed. Turnover his high and a number of states are using unqualified people to fill positions.

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July 17, 2022 · KARA Reporting

American Crime Costs & Statistics

READ TO THE END TO LEARN THE COSTS OF CRIME IN AMERICA TODAY

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January 30, 2022 · KARA Reporting

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

Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson is not alone in publicly stating the expensive and mean spirited political platform Other People's Children Are Not Society's Problem - Senator Ron Johnson

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October 4, 2021 · KARA Reporting

October Is Domestic Violence Awareness Month

Watching your mother being beat up or raped is the same trauma as being beaten or raped to a five or nine year old. Untreated trauma lasts forever and it changes a person forever. The United Nation's-Secretary General An

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July 26, 2020 · KARA Reporting

Minnesota Child Protection Stories, Statistics & COVID - May 2020

Kids At Risk Action writes and reports on child abuse issues providing a passionate voice for Minnesota's at risk children All Adults Are the Protectors of All Children

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March 6, 2020 · KARA Reporting

Foster Care News 2019

The first article in this series is a CASEY Foundation Q&A about recruiting American Indian Foster Parents in Oklahoma and fixing the State’s struggling child welfare system. All states are struggling to find safe homes

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June 4, 2019 · KARA Reporting

Recent International Child Protection News

Often, we look to the government to provide support in order to protect our children; however, the following news stories point to a disturbing trend of a lack of state action in preventing or even intervening in child w

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January 10, 2019 · KARA Reporting

Recent Child Burns/Torture Reporting & Statistics

Only the worst child abuse is reported Most child child trauma and torture is not discovered Find your state & resources here;

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January 4, 2019 · KARA Reporting

Recent Child Suicide Reports & Statistics (part III)

Most child suicide is under reported & obfuscated Find your state, reporting & resources here…

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December 31, 2018 · KARA Reporting

Recent Child Sex Abuse Reports & Statistics

KARA’s reporting is only a sampling of what should be reported the great majority of child sex trafficking, trauma & abuse is never known. 37% of children overall and 57% of Black children are reported

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June 6, 2018 · KARA Reporting

Child Welfare by State (statistics & news April 2018 (7) child sex abuse

American states are struggling to find answers for ending adverse childhood experiences (ACES) and saving at risk children by reversing the explosive growth of child abuse and neglect. Today, many state ward children are

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April 17, 2018 · KARA Reporting

Child Abuse & Trauma State by State (March 2018) VIII

AL: & AZ: Lawsuit was catalyst for cutting caseloads in Alabama (Commentary) Arizona Daily Star - March 08, 2018 Across the state, average caseloads were 65. Within six months, James was the only one of five people hired

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October 7, 2017 · KARA Reporting

September Sad Stories 2017 Part II

OH: Greene County in need of additional foster families Xenia Daily Gazette - August 31, 2017 Greene County Children's Services has seen a 22 percent increase in new children services cases from 2015 through 2016 in addi

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April 1, 2017 · KARA Reporting

Sad Stories March 2017 Part IV (child protection news from around the nation)

Dad jailed in Gentilly infant's death accused of mentioning crack use, accidental fall before arrest The Advocate Under questioning after his infant son's death last week, Jeffery Edward Coleman said that he had used cra

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February 4, 2017 · KARA Reporting

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

FIND YOUR CASA here – CASA’s around the U.S. If you are not listed, send me your info and we will include it. Thank you Sai Yang and Century College for your research and writing on this page. These CASA guardian ad-Lite

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August 13, 2016 · KARA Reporting

CASA Guardian ad Litem News From Around the Nation July 2016

FIND YOUR CASA here – This page tells the stories of CASA’s around the U.S. If you are not listed, send me your info and we will include it. Thank you KARA volunteers for your research and writing on this page. All Adult

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June 19, 2016 · KARA Reporting

CASA guardian ad-Litem News April & May 2016

CASA Child Advocates Montgomery County Newspaper WHY: CASA Child Advocates of Montgomery County held its first in-office corporate training for volunteers last month at the new Exxon Mobil … CASA breakfast serves up a 'R

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May 10, 2016 · KARA Reporting

April 2016 Sad Stories

CA: Vacaville commissioner advocates for preventing child abuse The Reporter - March 31, 2016 She's a mom, an advocate, a businesswoman and a Vacaville Community Services commissioner, and in honor of April being a doubl

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February 26, 2016 · KARA Reporting

February Sad Stories (2016 KARA reporting)

AZ: DCS Completing More Investigations, But Court Cases Increase (Includes audio)

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February 22, 2016 · KARA Reporting

More Americans Killed By Toddlers With Guns Than Terrorists

Toddlers with guns have murdered 5 people with guns in America this year, terrorists 3. Would we be safer if the NSA were spying on children, or just keeping an eye on pistol packing families? Here's a list of this years

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February 14, 2016 · KARA Reporting

CASA guardian ad-Litem News Around The Nation 1.1.16-2.13.16

FIND YOUR CASA here – This page tells the stories of CASA’s around the U.S. If you are not listed, send me your info and we will include it. Thank you Sai Yang and Century College for your research and writing on this pa

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August 2, 2015 · KARA Reporting

CASA guardian ad-Litem News (find your state here) August 2015

A baby is born addicted to opiates, a young child wakes up to find their parent unresponsive with a needle in their arm, siblings sit in the back seat of a car parked on a country road as their parents are shooting up he

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June 10, 2015 · KARA Reporting

Child Welfare News Through June 9, 2015 - Sad Stories - Glad Stories (15 days)

ND: Child Abuse and Neglect on the Rise KFYR-TV - May 21, 2015 More than 12,000 incidents of child abuse and neglect were reported to the Department of Human Services in 2014. MO: & KS: EDITORIAL: Volunteers needed to he

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May 6, 2015 · KARA Reporting

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

Child abuse reports gathered from around the nation from January through May 4th (find your state here). Post comments here about how your state is protecting children. All adults are the protectors of all children (pass

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May 6, 2015 · KARA Reporting

KARA Child Abuse Reporting This Spring (March, April, May)

Recent child abuse reporting from around the nation (find your state here)

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March 27, 2015 · KARA Reporting

CASA News

Learn about CASA Minnesota here Support CASA in your state (below)Abused and neglected children need more help than the foster care system can provide.

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February 28, 2015 · KARA Reporting

Sad Children Stories From February

The following sad stories have been gathered from around the nation and give an indication of how different states are handling child abuse and child protection. Find your state here;

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November 18, 2014 · KARA Reporting

5 Worst States For Child Homelessness (35% of Mississippi Children Are Impoverished)

From the National Center On Family Homelessness; California has over 500,000 children children lacking stable housing. 35% of Mississippi's children live in poverty. Arkansas, Alabama, & New Mexico have the next highest

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November 10, 2014 · KARA Reporting

Child Abuse Stories Across the Nation

MN: Lessons from child abuse deaths go unheeded in Minnesota (Opinion) Minneapolis Star Tribune - November 09, 2014 A Star Tribune examination of state and county records shows little evidence that the mortality reviews

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August 22, 2014 · KARA Reporting

This Week's At Risk Children's News

SC: Exclusive - Robert Guinyard's life and death in SC's child welfare system The State - August 17, 2014 Since his death, Robert has become the face of the debate over whether Social Services is doing all it can to prot

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February 21, 2014 · KARA Reporting

Snakes In Guatemala vs Guns In America

Last weekend, after 20 years of handling snakes, Jamie Coots received his final bite. A rattler got him in the back of the hand. It happened as Coots, a Pentecostal minister, was leading the Saturday night service at his

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February 3, 2014 · KARA Reporting

A Glimmer Of Hope (push for preschool)

Preschool is having its moment, as a favored cause for politicians and interest groups who ordinarily have trouble agreeing on the time of day. President Obama devoted part of his State of the Union address to it, while

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December 11, 2013 · KARA Reporting

Punishing The Mentally Ill (Minnesota is not alone)

Today's Minneapolis Star Tribune article supports a position I've held for years. By ignoring or under-serving people with mental health problems we are manufacturing state wards, preteen moms, and felons and this is mak

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June 7, 2013 · KARA Reporting

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

My stepfather was gay and had served in the military in the 1940's. He experienced no kindness and very little acceptance for his sexuality during his time on this planet. As a volunteer CASA guardian ad-Litem, I have co

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February 14, 2013 · KARA Reporting

Bigger Armies & More Wars - Why Americans Hate Children

Just yesterday a tea party fellow I know (RW) was telling me about the wisdom in former MN Governor Tim Pawlenty’s words, “children that are victims of failed personal responsibility are not my problem, nor are they the

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February 4, 2013 · KARA Reporting

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

When detectives interviewed Brewer, she told them the children were punished for stealing food. The case "even shocked some of our most veteran children's case workers," Hudson said. Brewer pleaded not guilty to eight fe

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July 17, 2012 · KARA Reporting

The Holocaust of Innocence Tour and Documentary

The National Holocaust of Innocence Tour and Documentary/Research Project August 1, 2012, we will be kicking off from Shreveport, Louisiana and will end after May 25, 2013 Washington D.C. two day Rally and Million Surviv

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February 4, 2010 · KARA Reporting

This May Not Be The Case

A new federal study will soon be getting rave reviews and making us feel like the nation has made great progress in ending child abuse.

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June 30, 2006 · KARA Reporting

Call To Justice Forum June 28th

Only ten percent of the citations issued in Hennepin County to people of color are prosecuted (90% are dismissed). 44% of African American men living in Hennepin county were arrested in 2001 (without any duplicate arrest

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