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Indiana
Indiana: federal child-welfare figures and 92 pieces of KARA reporting, in full.
Federal child-welfare figures and KARA's reporting on Indiana.
Child maltreatment victims
NCANDS, FFY2024
Entered foster care
AFCARS, FY2022
In foster care on Sept 30
AFCARS, FY2022
Sources: NCANDS Child Maltreatment 2024; AFCARS state tables. Full record — every metric, every year, gaps labeled — on KARA SIGNAL
KARA reporting on Indiana
92 articles, newest first, republished in full.
May 4, 2026 · KARA Reporting
Sometimes People Get Shot
• “From Cedarbluff, Mississippi, to parties in Houston and homes in Indiana, early 2026 brought mass shootings that briefly made headlines and then faded. This essay connects those tragedies to a deeper crisis: how our s
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October 19, 2025 · KARA Reporting
Egregious Child Death in America Today
There are few states that report out egregious harm or death of children at the hands of their parents. Minnesota Nonprofit Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota has recently compiled this report on 88 of the 200 childr
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May 10, 2025 · KARA Reporting
Kids At Risk Action History
KIDS AT RISK ACTION / KARA / INVISIBLE CHILDREN HISTORY
November 24, 2024 · KARA Reporting
Child Abuse Sad Stories (4 days in November)
37% of children overall and 44% of Black children are reported to child protection services in America by the time they turn 18. (American Journal of Public Health 1.17) 7.8 million children a year are reported to child
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October 15, 2024 · KARA Reporting
Child Abuse Investigations & Reforms
WHEN YOU Share KARA’s reporting with FRIENDS, INSTAGRAM & FACEBOOK and most of all, your State Representative (find them here) change will come a little bit faster. When enough of us become informed and speak up for abus
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May 30, 2024 · KARA Reporting
Minnesota Child Protection News May 2024
Minnesota Child Protection News May 2024 Share these articles with media contacts, lawmakers and other changemakers. Change won’t come without you.
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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September 8, 2021 · KARA Reporting
Our Creeping Mental Health Crisis (& statistics)
Suicide is now the 2nd leading cause of death among 10 to 24 year olds. Over 1 million children under 6 are prescribed psychiatric drugs in America today.
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September 24, 2020 · KARA Reporting
What Child Abuse Looked Like in America Last Week (a snapshot)
Those of us that know about the traumas abused children suffer need to say more if we are ever to reverse the trend of generational child abuse in America. These articles were compiled over the last week. The COVID pande
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June 10, 2020 · KARA Reporting
The Pandemic Impacting Child Abuse and Foster Care (state by state)
Because schools are closed, after-school activities are canceled and churches aren't having youth groups and community activity with trusted adults outside the home have evaporated - the chances an abused child can find
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April 20, 2020 · KARA Reporting
Violence Against Children & Covid19 – (it’s own pandemic) part III
Shelter In Place locks abused children in toxic homes With no escape to the safety of a classroom Domestic violence is rising and law enforcement & social workers are having a hard time keeping up. CLICK HERE FOR RESOURC
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October 10, 2019 · KARA Reporting
Infant Death Stories & Statistics October 2019 (find your state here)
This reporting over the last 45 days is a fraction of the child death in our communities today Signup for KARA’s Weekly News Updates & share this with your friends and networks All Adults Are the Protectors of All Childr
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September 29, 2019 · KARA Reporting
Recent Stories, Statistics & Articles About Adoption & Foster Care
After a 9 day trial, foster mom Melissa Sondrol was convicted of of assaulting her infant state ward child, breaking multiple bones and withholding medical information from providers. The court was not allowed to hear he
Indiana · Minnesota · Ohio · South Carolina
July 19, 2019 · KARA Reporting
Recent Foster Stories & Statistics
These recent stories, statistics & videos represent the state of foster care in America today and what it is like for a child to be a Ward of the State in your State;
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June 28, 2019 · KARA Reporting
Ensuring Children Will Die Lawsuit in Indiana (the other way of getting better public policy)
I visited Indiana a few years ago after the governor redirected funding from parents adopting special needs children after the adoptions had been completed (AFTER). Then governor mitch daniels directed those dollars to p
June 19, 2019 · KARA Reporting
June Child Abuse 2019 (find your state here)
current news about at risk children bringing transparency and attention to our youngest and most vulnerable citizens.
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January 3, 2019 · KARA Reporting
Recent Child Suicide Reports & Statistics (part II)
KARA’s reporting is only a sampling of what should be reported Most child suicide is under reported & obfuscated. Your state, resources & statistics here…
September 27, 2018 · KARA Reporting
Child Abuse Death & Suicide August/September 2018 page 2 (sad stories)
Articles, facts and statistics about U.S. child abuse deaths and suicides for August & September 2018
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September 11, 2018 · KARA Reporting
Only Evil Governments Torture Other People's (Immigrant) Children
Losing 1475 migrant children as a political statement was an awful example of what America is becoming know for internationally. Letting Migrant Kids Rot in shabby poorly run centers for months or years stinks of racism
August 3, 2018 · KARA Reporting
Infant & Child Death July 2018 (part 2)
KARA (Kids At Risk Action) tracks current news about at risk children bringing transparency and attention to our youngest and most vulnerable citizens. This reporting is only sampling of what should be reported – the gre
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July 2, 2018 · KARA Reporting
Child Death & Sex Abuse May 2018 (7) find your state here
NH parents of child who died arrested on drug charges Boston 25 News Following the child's death, police executed a search warrant at 473 Hevey St. and said they found 28.1 grams of heroin, 11.8 grams of cocaine, 15.3 …
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April 25, 2018 · KARA Reporting
Child Well Being State by State March 2018 (X)
HI: Girl who was severely beaten after state returned her to mom gets $450K payout (Includes video) Hawaii News Now - March 02, 2018 Twelve years ago, Shari Rodrigues suffered permanent brain and internal injuries after
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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March 25, 2018 · KARA Reporting
Sad Stories Part VII Feb 13-28 (child protection - find your state here)
37% of children overall and 57% of Black children are reported to child protection services in America by the time they turn 18. (American Journal of Public Health 1.17) 12 million children a year are reported to child p
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March 8, 2018 · KARA Reporting
Sad Stories Feb 2018 Part IV (child abuse & trauma articles and statistics)
37% of children overall and 57% of Black children are reported to child protection services in America by the time they turn 18. (American Journal of Public Health 1.17) 12 million children a year are reported to child p
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March 1, 2018 · KARA Reporting
Sad Stories Feb 2018 Part I (child abuse - child death stories & statistics)
37% of children overall and 57% of Black children are reported to child protection services in America by the time they turn 18. (American Journal of Public Health 1.17) 12 million children a year are reported to child p
February 1, 2018 · KARA Reporting
January Sad Stories 2018 Part I (find your state here)
American states are struggling to find answers for ending adverse childhood experiences and saving at risk children by reversing the explosive growth of child abuse and neglect. Today, many state ward children are the 4t
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September 20, 2017 · KARA Reporting
August Sad Stories Part II
Kids At Risk Action; American states are struggling to find answers for saving at risk children and reversing the explosive growth of child abuse and neglect. Today, many state ward children are the 4th and 5th generatio
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July 30, 2017 · KARA Reporting
Your Tax Dollars At Work (child welfare vs. corporate welfare - who wins?)
Art Rolnick’s Star Tribune article Sunday struck a powerful chord about how corporate welfare has been trumping the welfare of children.
April 20, 2017 · KARA Reporting
Sad Stories April 2017 Part I
KARA tracks current news about at risk children bringing transparency and attention to our youngest and most vulnerable citizens. These pages are a sampling of what should be reported – the great majority of child trauma
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March 18, 2017 · KARA Reporting
Sad Stories March 2017 Part II
OR: Report: Child welfare review teams under microscope Merced Sun-Star - March 06, 2017 Barely three days after 12-year-old Caden Berry of Keizer died, the head of Oregon's child welfare agency ordered a full review of
Arizona · Colorado · Georgia · Indiana · Maine · Nebraska · Ohio
March 4, 2017 · KARA Reporting
February 2017 Sad Stories Part IV
AKARA tracks current news about at risk children bringing transparency and attention to our youngest and most vulnerable citizens. This is only a sampling of what should be reported – the great majority of child trauma,
Arizona · California · Florida · Idaho · Indiana · Iowa · New York
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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February 2, 2017 · KARA Reporting
CASA Guardian ad-Litem News Around the Nation October/November 2016
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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January 14, 2017 · KARA Reporting
January Sad Stories Part I (thru 1.13.17)
Sign Up Here For KARA’s Free Friday Morning Real Story KARA tracks current news about at risk children bringing transparency and attention to our youngest and most vulnerable citizens. Please note that what you see here
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December 31, 2016 · KARA Reporting
December Sad Stories Part II
CA: Culp: Looking at 2016 in the Rear-View Mirror (Opinion) TechWire - December 28, 2016 One of the biggest sessions at the American Public Human Services Association's Information Systems Management Conference this year
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December 2, 2016 · KARA Reporting
November 2016 Sad Stories Part II
Sign Up Here For Friday morning news updates (free) KARA tracks current news about at risk children bringing transparency and attention to our youngest and most vulnerable citizens. Please note that what you see here is
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September 17, 2016 · KARA Reporting
CASA guardian ad Litem News & Stories for August 2016
Jan. 17 trial date set in Sullivan County homicide Terre Haute Tribune Star Tribune-Star/Lisa TriggDefendant Joshua Travis Hall is led from the Sullivan Superior courtroom by Sheriff Clark Cottom following a hearing Mond
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September 2, 2016 · KARA Reporting
Using Bibles In Defense of Child Abuse (not the Jesus I knew)
Indiana Governor and Vice Presidential Candidate Mike Pence's Religious Freedom signature law RFRA allows beating 7 year old's with a coat hanger leaving bruises and bleeding severe enough to cause the child's doctor to
August 22, 2016 · KARA Reporting
August Sad Stories 2016 (part II)
KARA tracks current news about at risk children bringing transparency and attention to our youngest and most vulnerable citizens. Please note that what you see here is only a sampling of what should be reported – the gre
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July 29, 2016 · KARA Reporting
July 2016 Sad Stories Through July 15-29 (part 2)
IN: Christensen/Laurin: Should lawyers report child abuse learned in representation? (Opinion) Indiana Lawyer - July 27, 2016 A lawyer's reporting obligation depends on whether confidentiality and/or privilege are implic
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April 7, 2016 · KARA Reporting
CASA Guardian ad-Litem News Through March 2016
These CASA guardian ad-Litem articles have been gathered from around the nation for the month of March. If you are an aspiring journalist and would like to help Kids At Risk Action increase the quality and quantity of CA
Alaska · Florida · Indiana · Minnesota · North Carolina · Vermont
March 16, 2016 · KARA Reporting
March Sad Stories (2016 KARA reporting)
MN: Research Shows Washburn Center for Children Treatment has Significant Impact on Children's Social, Emotional and Behavioral Health (Press release) Business Wire - March 10, 2016 A new report by the Center for Advance
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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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January 30, 2016 · KARA Reporting
January Sad Stories (2016 KARA reporting)
Every month Kids At Risk Action draws attention to the plight of abused and neglected children by gathering the stories of at risk children from around the nation. You will find your community on this page. Please share
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October 31, 2015 · KARA Reporting
Sad Stories October 2015
Find information about child protection, child endangerment & child well-being in your state here. For past months, click here AR: Arkansas's child welfare system discriminates against relatives of neglectful or abusive
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August 25, 2015 · KARA Reporting
Fines and Judgements For Child Protection Failures (millions of $ badly spent)
Over the past few years the states of Washington (144 million dollars) and Indiana have been sued successfully for many millions of dollars for failing to protect abused and neglected children. In Arizona, the over 6600
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August 6, 2015 · KARA Reporting
How We Punish - And What It Does To Children & Our Community
For many years, we have fed younger and younger people into our Criminal Justice System and gotten the same results over and over again as children graduate into the Criminal Justice System with a recidivism rate that ma
Indiana · Minnesota · Mississippi · Pennsylvania · Tennessee
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
Alabama · California · Florida · Georgia · Illinois · Indiana · Louisiana · Missouri · Nebraska · North Carolina · Pennsylvania · South Carolina
July 24, 2015 · KARA Reporting
Indiana Sued For Making Child Protection Almost Impossible
A few years ago, Vice Presidential candidate and Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels eliminated funding across the board for Indiana families adopting special needs children (after 500 adoptions by families promised these dol
June 21, 2015 · KARA Reporting
Grandparents; Counties & States Can’t Live With Them, Children Can’t Live Without Them.
It is not the social worker, the teacher, or other professionals working with children that are responsible for the problems within American child protection service, it is lack of awareness and understanding by policy m
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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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February 5, 2015 · KARA Reporting
Are Class Action Lawsuits The Future For Child Protection? (Just filed in Arizona)
Note, this article is not about blaming people doing the work - it's about legislators that are unaware of the dire straits abused and neglected children are facing and their slow and inadequate reaction to the condition
January 19, 2015 · KARA Reporting
Falling Through the Cracks (NYTimes) 786 Children Die While in Child Protective Services
This article in yesterday's NY Times, (from AP) shows how at least 786 children died awful deaths while in full view of child protection authorities. The numbers are most likely much higher
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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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September 22, 2014 · KARA Reporting
Thank You Governor Dayton (shining a light on Minnesota's Child Protection system)
It took real courage for Minnesota's Governor to use the phrase "Colossal Failure" when describing the role child protective services played in the tortured death of four year old Eric Dean. The politics of child protect
June 22, 2014 · KARA Reporting
CASA Guardian ad-Litem News (updates from around the nation)
Lawyers to become 'eyes and ears' of judges in new Family Law Guardian ad Litem pilot program Bradenton Herald More than two dozen lawyers from the Icard Merrill law firm have signed up to be guardians ad litem as part o
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May 13, 2014 · KARA Reporting
Children In The News (update)
MI: Littlest victims: Here's one easy way you can (and should) fight child abuse (Includes Video) mLive - May 01, 2014 This video, titled Make the Call, is a community effort to encourage people to make that call. http:/
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April 24, 2014 · KARA Reporting
Years Of Ignored Child Abuse In Arizona (why should we care?)
Charles Flanagan, head of the new Division of Child Safety and Family Services, said five were people working for him who were found to have been instrumental in crafting and implementing a policy that resulted in ignori
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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
Alabama · Arizona · California · Florida · Georgia · Idaho · Indiana · Kentucky · Ohio · Tennessee · West Virginia
February 14, 2014 · KARA Reporting
Abused and Neglected Children's News (thank you Child Welfare In The News)
MA: Patrick To Address Controversy Surrounding Child Welfare Agency Associated Press - January 27, 2014 The failure of the Department of Children and Families to keep track of a missing 5-year-old boy whose family had be
California · Florida · Indiana · Massachusetts · Mississippi · Missouri · Nevada · New Mexico · Ohio
August 8, 2013 · KARA Reporting
Child Welfare In The News (find your state - nation here) 100+ articles
Child Welfare in the News is distributed at no charge by Child Welfare Information Gateway (www.childwelfare.gov), a service of the Children's Bureau/ACF/HHS (www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cb). It features news stories on top
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February 19, 2013 · KARA Reporting
CASA guardian ad-Litem News From Around The Nation
Without court appointed CASA guardian ad-Litems, America's at risk children have no voice in the homes they are raised in or for years as state wards in foster care. Some states (Virginia most recently) are moving toward
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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 8, 2013 · KARA Reporting
Tracking America's Most At Risk Children (Compiled)
New documents obtained by KCAL9 detail previous allegation of abuse in the case of a now- deceased 8-year-old Palmdale boy who investigators say was tortured and beaten to death. Gabrieal Frenandez suffered a skull fract
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December 5, 2012 · KARA Reporting
Bastards; How Yesterday’s Rejection Of The Disabilities Treaty Damages America’s Children
Even after a wheelchair delivered heartfelt plea from 89 year old, handicapped, former Senator Bob Dole, our U.S. senate rejected the UN treat to ban discrimination against people with disabilities. The reason given was
Alaska · Arizona · Indiana · Kansas · Maine · Massachusetts · Mississippi · Nevada · New Hampshire · Wyoming
October 19, 2012 · KARA Reporting
Indiana Update (current child protection news - thanks again Mitch Daniels)
IN: The politics of children and family services Governing - October 09, 2012 Protecting kids and trying to preserve families isn't only the hardest job in government, it's by far the most politically dangerous. In resig
September 7, 2012 · KARA Reporting
Best Interests Of The Child; ICWA, Politics, & Media
It's obvious to almost anyone that reads this article that the best interests of the child weren't even considered when Sierra Goodman was ripped from the Campbell's adoptive home by ICWA. It was a home she loved and flo
August 31, 2012 · KARA Reporting
Indiana's At Risk Children & Governor Mitch Daniels;
efforts of a governor currying political favor at the cost of poor young lives. Mitch Daniels needs to be identified for his personal policies ruining young lives; these policies are at the same time costing the state mo
August 1, 2012 · KARA Reporting
Little Is Known About Deaths & Serious Injuries To Children In America
While this article was about children in America’s day care centers, I draw your attention to the terrific increase in brutal violence against children outside of day care. As a guardian ad-Litem for Hennepin County I ha
Colorado · Indiana · Louisiana · Minnesota · Mississippi · Tennessee
July 21, 2012 · KARA Reporting
The Cost Of Ignoring Reality
I repeat Pliny's quote often because I believe it clearly articulates how almost every problem our nation has ties directly to his point; "What we do to our children, they will do to society", Pliny the Elder, 2500 years
July 20, 2012 · KARA Reporting
Michael Swanson, Jeff Weise, James Holmes, Virginia Tech; Tons of Avoidable Pain
I know parents who have lost children to murder and violent death. It ruins lives far beyond the coffin. Violent Death spouse and children images stay with us forever. Still, no likes the conversation. Virginia Tech, Men
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June 23, 2012 · KARA Reporting
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.
First, it is the same government money being spent, just that it goes to an entrepreneurial lowest bidder. Second, New Jersey’s half way houses are managed the same way privatized day care, juvenile justice, prison syste
April 30, 2012 · KARA Reporting
Children Murdered In Kentucky, Governor Beshear Hides The Evidence
Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear is hiding the records of dozens of dead children (from child abuse) because life for abused children is so awful in his state he wants it hidden from the rest of the nation. The core issue
April 19, 2012 · KARA Reporting
From Child Welfare In The News
AZ: Money for foster care in Arizona could be cut by more than half ABC15.com April 18, 2012 The Chandler couple doesn’t understand why state lawmakers would even consider a 60 percent cut to Child Protective Services. U
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April 16, 2012 · KARA Reporting
Institutional Bullying & Suicide; Bishop Gene Robinson
An increasingly popular bumper sticker reads, “Guns Don’t Kill People. RELIGION Kills People!” In light of recent events I would add religion kills young people: gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender young people. Per
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March 24, 2012 · KARA Reporting
The State Of American Schools (& Stop Blaming Teachers)
Average reading level of America's Senior High Students; 5th grade proficiency Math questions for Georgia grade school children; "Each tree had 56 oranges," the first question starts. "If 8 slaves pick them equally, then
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March 3, 2012 · KARA Reporting
Shout Out To Mitch Daniels & the YMCA Volunteers With Special Needs Kids I saw this morning.
A different kind of shout out to Mitch Daniels (Indiana’s Governor) for Terminating the state adoption subsidies to 500 families that adopted special needs children based on the state’s promise of transportation & other
March 2, 2012 · KARA Reporting
National Center For Youth Law
It hurts me to think that babies and very young children need to have lawyers to enforce their rights in my community, but it has been my experience. One of my first CASA cases was a badly burned little girl whose cousin
February 28, 2012 · KARA Reporting
Lying To Ourselves About Caring, Children, & Religion
Jeremy Olson's hard hitting piece in today’s Star Tribune about this communities not caring enough for children to provide them with essential services to lead a normal life starts a badly needed conversation. The child
February 8, 2012 · KARA Reporting
Race To The Bottom, Untrained Social Workers, Over Work & More Dead & Suffering Children In Indiana
“We have children dying in our region and we are awarded with recognition of system improvement. Really?” he wrote. “The timing of this award is hard to accept given the recent tragic death of 10-year-old Tramelle Sturgi
January 31, 2012 · KARA Reporting
43 Child Deaths Due Policy Violations In Colorado Social Services
To appreciate the meanness of some states I point to (Mitch Daniels) Indiana's stealing (redirecting) the funding promised to parents that adopted abandoned special needs children (after they had been adopted) & the fisc
November 2, 2011 · KARA Reporting
A Call To Action; The System Will Succeed When The Public & Private Sectors Work Together
It was clear after talking with adoptive and foster families at their annual conference that Indiana's failure to protect it's children is due to the politicizing of children's issues and not the hard work being done by
October 29, 2011 · KARA Reporting
Occupy Wall Street For America's Children
Children have no lobby, no voice, & can't fight back when a MN Governor* states that "children that are victims of failed personal responsibility are not my problem, nor are they the problem of the State Of Minnesota". T
California · Indiana · Minnesota · Nebraska
October 23, 2011 · KARA Reporting
Thank You Indiana
I was impressed with the tenacity and commitment of Indiana’s foster and adoptive parents in the face of this state’s mean spirited children's politics. The evening before my talk I listened to story after story of the “
October 6, 2011 · KARA Reporting
Mike's Next Keynote Talk; Indiana Foster Care & Adoption
he Indiana Foster Care and Adoption Association (IFCAA) is a statewide non-profit membership organization that supports foster and adoptive families. IFCAA promotes awareness about the needs of children who have experien
June 27, 2011 · KARA Reporting
The Boy Who Died Locked In A Cage After 12 Visits From Indiana DCS
We only read about the babies found in dumpsters, or other violent child deaths. NO one reports the thousands of children sexually abused, beaten, or starved. I know too many of these children & it is a dark stain on Ame
October 15, 2010 · KARA Reporting
We're Number 1, & that's not good…
Bishop Gene Robinson draws attention to youth suicide & particularly that seven students in one Minnesota school district have taken their own lives, including three teens. GLBT issues underly most of the suicide the Bis
California · Indiana · Minnesota · New Jersey · Rhode Island · Texas
August 18, 2010 · KARA Reporting
International Symposium on Human Nature and Early Experience at Notre Dame
The University of Notre Dame’s Department of Psychology and Center for Children and Families invites you to a multidisciplinary symposium entitled “Human Nature and Early Experience: Addressing the ‘Environment of Evolut
April 18, 2010 · KARA Reporting
This Weeks Important At Risk Youth News
This is a compilation of recent news that reflects the conditions of youth and youth policy in the U.S. this past few weeks. Thank you Jamie Wilt and Century College for your hard work and good programs.
Florida · Hawaii · Illinois · Indiana · North Carolina · Virginia
January 8, 2010 · KARA Reporting
Growing Up In America
One of my guardian ad-Litem youth walked home for many hours on a below zero Minnesota night without a coat because of the abuse he received at a juvenile detention center. He had had enough troubles for a lifetime befor
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