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Child maltreatment victims
NCANDS, FFY2024

Entered foster care
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In foster care on Sept 30
AFCARS, FY2022

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

Alaska · Florida · Iowa · Kansas · Kentucky · Maine · Massachusetts · Minnesota · Mississippi · Montana · New Hampshire · New Jersey · Pennsylvania · Rhode Island · South Dakota · Vermont · Virginia · Washington · West Virginia

May 27, 2026 · KARA Reporting

Foster Child Self-Harm & Suicide June 2025

Childhood trauma, suicide and self-harm among American youth are at historic highs, with alarming increases among fosters, preteens, girls, LGBTQ+ youth, and children of color. Suicide is now the second leading cause of

Alaska · Idaho · Nevada · New Hampshire · New York · West Virginia

March 24, 2026 · KARA Reporting

From Classrooms to Homeless Shelters: How Our Choices Hurt Children

Compared to other advanced nations America treats children and the people who care for them as an afterthought and then acts surprised when our schools and child‑welfare systems are overwhelmed with troubled children suf

Florida · Louisiana · Massachusetts · Minnesota · Mississippi · Missouri · Montana · Nebraska · New Hampshire · New Jersey · New Mexico · Texas · Vermont

March 8, 2026 · KARA Reporting

A Closer Look At Child Fatality and Egregious Incident Reporting

Child Fatality & Egregious Incident Reporting: A U.S. Overview America’s approach to exposing and understanding the gravest harms done to children(fatalities, near-deaths, torture, and catastrophic agency failures) reveal

Arkansas · California · Colorado · Connecticut · Kentucky · Maryland · Minnesota · Missouri · New Hampshire · Ohio · Oregon · South Carolina · Texas · Wisconsin

November 3, 2025 · KARA Reporting

School Counselors & Why We Need Them

If we are to save the growing numbers of children facing serious problems we need many more skilled counselors and mental health workers in our schools. In this time of unregulated digital chaos, social, and political up

Arizona · Michigan · New Hampshire · Vermont

July 29, 2025 · KARA Reporting

A Closer Look At Child Fatality and Egregious Incident Reporting

Child Fatality & Egregious Incident Reporting: A U.S. Overview America’s approach to exposing and understanding the gravest harms done to children(fatalities, near-deaths, torture, and catastrophic agency failures) reveal

Arkansas · California · Colorado · Connecticut · Kentucky · Maryland · Minnesota · Missouri · New Hampshire · Ohio · Oregon · South Carolina · Texas · Wisconsin

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

Alabama · Alaska · Arizona · Arkansas · California · Colorado · Connecticut · Delaware · Florida · Georgia · Hawaii · Idaho · Illinois · Indiana · Iowa · Kansas · Kentucky · Louisiana · Maine · Maryland · Massachusetts · Michigan · Minnesota · Mississippi · Missouri · Montana · Nebraska · Nevada · New Hampshire · New Jersey · New Mexico · New York · North Carolina · North Dakota · Ohio · Oklahoma · Oregon · Pennsylvania · Rhode Island · South Carolina · South Dakota · Tennessee · Texas · Utah · Vermont · Virginia · Washington · West Virginia · Wisconsin · Wyoming

July 9, 2021 · KARA Reporting

Child Welfare Information (find your state here)

These recent articles reflect the stories of America's at risk children and youth. If we don't know the issues, there doesn't seem to be a problem. If we don't see a problem there is no need for a solution. Their stories

California · District of Columbia · Florida · Georgia · Louisiana · Michigan · Nevada · New Hampshire

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

California · Iowa · Maine · Minnesota · New Hampshire · North Dakota · Virginia

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

Alabama · Florida · Minnesota · New Hampshire · Ohio · Oregon · Pennsylvania · South Dakota · Texas

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

Alaska · Arizona · California · Colorado · Connecticut · Florida · Georgia · Idaho · Illinois · Indiana · Iowa · Kansas · Kentucky · Louisiana · Maine · Massachusetts · Michigan · Minnesota · Missouri · Montana · Nebraska · Nevada · New Hampshire · New Mexico · New York · North Carolina · Ohio · Oklahoma · Oregon · Rhode Island · South Carolina · Tennessee · Texas · Virginia · Washington · Wisconsin

July 8, 2018 · KARA Reporting

Child & Infant Death June 2018

4 people arraigned in child's death investigation, charged with gross abuse of a corpse in Defiance … WTOL.com A body of a new born infant left un-cared for 17 months in Defiance County has resulted in four people from t

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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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October 31, 2017 · KARA Reporting

October Sad Stories 2017 Part I

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

California · Florida · Massachusetts · Mississippi · New Hampshire · New Jersey · Ohio

November 1, 2016 · KARA Reporting

October Sad Stories Part II

WA: Can this tool fix our troubled foster care system? Crosscut Seattle - October 28, 2015 Anyone who has filed a tax return by hand knows that filling out bureaucratic forms can be a dreary, time-consuming enterprise. F

Alaska · Arizona · Arkansas · California · Colorado · Connecticut · Georgia · Louisiana · New Hampshire

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

Alabama · California · Colorado · Delaware · Florida · Georgia · Illinois · Indiana · Iowa · Minnesota · Montana · New Hampshire · North Carolina · Oregon · Pennsylvania · Texas

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

Alabama · Arizona · California · Florida · Missouri · New Hampshire · Ohio · South Carolina · South Dakota · Texas

April 22, 2014 · KARA Reporting

This Week's News For At Risk Children

VA: State finds Richmond DSS not at fault in two child deaths WTVR - April 18, 2014 A review conducted by Virginia's Department of Social Services determined Richmond's Department of Social Services (RDSS) did not contri

Florida · Hawaii · Illinois · Iowa · Michigan · Minnesota · New Hampshire · New Jersey · North Carolina

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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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

California · Georgia · Indiana · Kansas · Missouri · New Hampshire · Oklahoma · Tennessee

November 25, 2011 · KARA Reporting

Race To The Bottom

From California, as if life for poor children were not difficult enough, State sponsored Indentured Servitude: Lawsuit Seeks to Stop State Welfare Agencies from Illegally Forcing Children to Repay Money Paid to Parents M

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October 2, 2011 · KARA Reporting

Save Cristian Fernanedez 12 Years Old Sign the MoveOn Petition

Cristian hasn't had an easy life. He's the same age now as his mother was when he was born. He's a survivor of physical, emotional, and sexual abuse. In 2010, Cristian watched his stepfather commit suicide to avoid being

Florida · New Hampshire

February 12, 2010 · KARA Reporting

The Impact Of Tampering With Georgia's Student's Test Results

a href="http://www.startribune.com/nation/84190787.html?elr=KArks:DCiUMEaPc:UiD3aPc:_Yyc:aULPQL7PQLanchO7DiUr">Georgia's hiding of hard truths is a terrifying trend in our nation. Here's why;

Georgia · Minnesota · New Hampshire · Texas

January 31, 2010 · KARA Reporting

Bringing Attention to Child Abuse Deaths

As part of a campaign to stop child abuse and neglect deaths, The Every Child Matters Education Fund and its partners: the National Association of Social Workers, the National Children’s Alliance, and the National Distric

January 24, 2010 · KARA Reporting

Crimes Against Children Study New Hampshire University:

CONCLUSIONS: The scope and diversity of child exposure to victimization is not well recognized. Clinicians and researchers need to inquire about a larger spectrum of victimization types to identify multiply victimized ch

New Hampshire · Tennessee

January 11, 2010 · KARA Reporting

Financial and Family Stress Linked to Child Maltreatment in Rural Areas

This in depth report from the Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire makes it painfully clear that poverty and mental health issues are often at the heart of child abuse.

September 28, 2008 · KARA Reporting

PTSD study of abused children

In my experience as a CASA guardian ad-Litem working with children over twelve years, I have only rarely seen adequate services provided. A County Judge has provided me with the psychotropic medical prescriptions of the