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Maine: federal child-welfare figures and 35 pieces of KARA reporting, in full.

Federal child-welfare figures and KARA's reporting on Maine.

3,800

Child maltreatment victims
NCANDS, FFY2024

1,130

Entered foster care
AFCARS, FY2022

2,429

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 Maine

35 articles, newest first, republished in full.

June 23, 2026 · KARA Reporting

Mandated Reporting and Why We Don't

Mandated Reporters genuinely fear for their safety and reputation and regularly fail to report (or, "see") horrific child abuse to avoid potential damage to themselves.

California · Maine · New York

June 19, 2026 · KARA Reporting

Adoption & Foster Care In America – (their stories, your state)

Foster Care; Every state is struggling to make life safe for traumatized state ward children. Here are their stories from October & November 2017; KS: Nowhere Else to Go: Why Kids Are Sleeping in Child Welfare Offices (C

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June 19, 2026 · KARA Reporting

Best & Worst States For America's Children

Where does your state rank in protecting children & what can you do to make improvements. These statistics tell the stories of our best and worst states around the nation

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June 6, 2026 · KARA Reporting

America’s Child Abuse Emergency: 546,000 Victims, 2,000 Deaths, and a System That Chooses This

Child abuse in the United States is not rare or random. It is the predictable outcome of policy choices. In 2023, about 546,000 children were confirmed victims of abuse or neglect and an estimated 2,000 were killed, rou

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February 23, 2026 · KARA Reporting

CASA Volunteers Are Coming Back: Why Minnesota Children Need Them

Over 48 years, CASA/GAL (Guardian ad Litem) programs have grown into a national network of more than 900 organizations with 80,000–100,000 guardian ad litem volunteers serving close to a quarter‑million abused and neglec

Maine · Minnesota · North Dakota · Washington

May 25, 2025 · KARA Reporting

Powerful Stories From The Atlantic Journal

tell our child abuse and child protection stories (over and over) and work to improve the programs, people, and institutions that impact at risk children.

Maine · Minnesota

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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July 24, 2024 · KARA Reporting

Fetal Alcohol Births (and a very big policy change)

Minnesota has ended criminalizing fetal alcohol birth mothers with the hopes of better results by recommending treatment instead of mandatory programs and prosecution for failure.

Maine · Minnesota

June 9, 2024 · KARA Reporting

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

Read more below to follow the conversation about the absence of transparency in Child Protective Services

Illinois · Maine · Texas · Washington · West Virginia

February 15, 2024 · KARA Reporting

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

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

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April 26, 2023 · KARA Reporting

Striking Foster Care Articles & Policies (find your state here)

Free College for ALL MN Foster Youth First in the Nation A Really Big Deal

California · Colorado · Florida · Georgia · Maine

November 12, 2022 · KARA Reporting

The Cost of Tough on Crime (in tax dollars and public safety)

The majority of violent and serious crime has always been committed by juveniles. Most juvenile offenders have come through Child Protective Services (MN Supreme Court Chief Justice KATHLEEN BLATZ “the difference between

Maine · Minnesota · New Jersey · Pennsylvania · Texas

February 23, 2022 · KARA Reporting

CHILD WELLBEING NEWS FEB 11-18 2022

(State By State + International) KARA’s Free Friday Morning Real Story E Updates KARA SOCIAL MEDIA KARA Signature Video (4 minute) Child Welfare In the News is a collection of child abuse/wellbeing news by the CHILD WELF

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December 21, 2021 · KARA Reporting

Domestic Violence Around the World

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE NEWS FROM AROUND THE WORLD WINTER 2021 The United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres warned that we are seeing a horrifying global surge in domestic violence all over the world and is urging lea

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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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September 14, 2021 · KARA Reporting

CDC Charts Mental Health & Child Suicide Pre COVID

COVID is Hammering Children’s Mental Health These charts show steadily rising trends over the ten year period before COVID. The data pointing to youth planning suicide in the past year is very serious (2019).

Maine · Michigan · Pennsylvania · Wisconsin

September 14, 2020 · KARA Reporting

Signs That You Are a Mental Health Worker

Andy Steiner’s social workers as backbone of the mental health workforce Minnpost article belies a much deeper truth about the depth and scope of mental health in our communities at this time. Generational child abuse ha

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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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May 17, 2019 · KARA Reporting

KARA’s Top Stories The Week of 5.17.19

AZ: Child-welfare cases are private. Does that protect the kids, or the state officials? (Commentary) Arizona Republic - May 03, 2019 When news broke that a Maricopa woman had been accused of starving, pepper-spraying, a

Arizona · Florida · Illinois · Maine · New Jersey · South Carolina

September 29, 2018 · KARA Reporting

Judge Kavanaugh, The Catholic Church, Statistics & Child Sex Abuse

The miserable politics of rape at the highest level in our government are playing out today. Once more, sexual violence is in the spotlight as America’s second recent Supreme Court nominee (Kavanaugh) is being questioned

Delaware · Maine

September 22, 2018 · KARA Reporting

Drugging Children (August Sad Stories 2018)

37% of children overall and 54% of Black children are reported to child protection services in America by the time they turn 18. (American Journal of Public Health 1.17) 6 to 12 million children a year are reported to ch

California · Maine · Texas

August 29, 2018 · KARA Reporting

Catholic Charities of Boston vs. The Vatican (from 2012)

I should know. I was the chairman of the board of directors for Catholic Charities of Boston. I feel compelled to set the record straight and let voters in Maine, who might not remember what actually happened, know the t

Maine · Massachusetts

April 14, 2018 · KARA Reporting

Child Abuse & Trauma (March 2018) VII

Scale of child abuse survey 'needed every 10 years' BBC News Thousands of children should be surveyed to build a true picture of sexual exploitation, experts have said. The government says it does not know how many girls

California · Maine · Mississippi · Pennsylvania · Washington

April 12, 2018 · KARA Reporting

Child Abuse & Well Being State by State March 2018 (VI)

CA: Social Workers Concerned With Increase in Babies Exposed to Meth Santa Barbara Independent - March 15, 2018 An increasing number of infants exposed to methamphetamine have raised concern among Santa Barbara social wo

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May 2, 2017 · KARA Reporting

Sad Stories April 2017 Part III

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

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November 19, 2016 · KARA Reporting

November 2016 Sad Stories Part I

IN: Child re-sentenced for murder: A sign of juvenile justice reform? Christian Science Monitor - October 31, 2016 Paul Gingerich was 12 years old when he helped fatally shoot a friend's stepfather in a small Indiana tow

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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 16, 2016 · KARA Reporting

July 2016 Sad Stories (part 1)

This page is a compilation of child protection news from around the nation (with some international reporting) for the month of June (through June 25) If you would like to help KARA gather and report news from your commu

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April 17, 2015 · KARA Reporting

CASA News Around the Nation for April (what do guardian ad-Litems do?)

The following is a compilation of Court Appointed Special Advocate - guardian ad-litem news in April from around the nation (find your state here). Send KARA your announcements & news articles (short form with links & in

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December 3, 2014 · KARA Reporting

It Happens Over and Over (profound child abuse - child death - inadequate reporting & response)

This is my take from Brandon's article of Nov 30th (linked above) Minnesota's recent brutal murder of 4 year old Eric Dean after 14 ignored reports of child abuse by mandated reporters (and one family assessment) is beco

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September 5, 2014 · KARA Reporting

Another Avoidable Child Death

Gordon Collins-Faunce, a father with PTSD & related psychotropic medications, and a history of physical and sexual abuse growing up in his own foster family, hurled his two-month old son into a chair. Ethan Henderson die

July 24, 2014 · KARA Reporting

Powerful Stories From The Atlantic Journal (here's a preview)

Working with abused and neglected children and dysfunctional families is complex and grueling and needs more not less understanding and support. Blaming social workers when a baby is found in a dumpster is not so differe

Maine · Minnesota

December 3, 2013 · KARA Reporting

Bad Day In The News For Children In Need Of Protection

Z: Senate president rejects request for more CPS funding Your West Valley - December 02, 2013 The president of the state Senate is blasting a request for more money for Child Protective Services, saying the agency may ha

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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

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