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New Jersey: federal child-welfare figures and 61 pieces of KARA reporting, in full.

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

2,466

Child maltreatment victims
NCANDS, FFY2024

1,468

Entered foster care
AFCARS, FY2022

2,786

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 New Jersey

61 articles, newest first, republished in full.

June 24, 2026 · KARA Reporting

Childhood Trauma and Lifelong ACES Impact

Children’s mental health crisis post COVID is no longer invisible. California’s Surgeon General Nadine Burke Harris has declared adverse childhood experiences a public health threat, while foster children across the nati

California · Minnesota · New Jersey · New York

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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April 8, 2026 · KARA Reporting

Best and Worst Hospitals For U.S. Children (Beckers Hospital Review)

Which states give kids the best chance at a healthy life? This review ranks all 50 states and D.C. on children’s healthcare, nutrition, and oral health, and the gaps are stark.

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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

February 21, 2026 · KARA Reporting

New Jersey Recent Child Abuse Death, Egregious Harm & Child Protection Issues

New Jersey’s recent child abuse tragedies: from Ne’Miya Duncan’s death days after a welfare visit to two brothers killed in Hillsborough. Show deep failures in DCPP’s ability to protect children. This post highlights speci

Minnesota · New Jersey

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

Alabama · Alaska · California · Colorado · Illinois · Kansas · Massachusetts · Michigan · Minnesota · Mississippi · Nevada · New Jersey · New York · Oregon · South Dakota · Texas · Washington · West Virginia · Wyoming

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

California · Indiana · Louisiana · Maine · Michigan · New Jersey · North Carolina · Pennsylvania · Wisconsin

March 14, 2024 · KARA Reporting

America's CHILDHOOD TRAUMA and ACES Impact

California’s Surgeon General Nadine Burke Harris has declared Adverse Childhood Experiences a public health problem and public school crisis in her state.

Alaska · California · Minnesota · New Jersey · New York

January 25, 2023 · KARA Reporting

49 % of America's Black Youth Arrested Before Their 23rd Birthday (40% of White Youth)

This Annie E. Casey Foundation survey of Black youth in February 2021 demonstrates a rising trend of Black youth incarceration Post COVID. Black youth in juvenile detention on Feb. 1, 2021, reached a pandemic high, while

Arizona · California · Minnesota · New Jersey

January 1, 2023 · KARA Reporting

Juveniles In Justice

LA & New Jersey ending prison and jails for juveniles and Colorado's super successful juvenile restorative justice

California · Colorado · Florida · Louisiana · Minnesota · Mississippi · New Jersey · Texas · Wisconsin

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

September 22, 2022 · KARA Reporting

30.2 % of America's Youth Arrested Before Their 23rd Birthday (25% of us are state wards & special needs people)

This Annie E. Casey Foundation survey of Black youth in February 2021 demonstrates a rising trend of Black youth incarceration Post COVID. Black youth in juvenile detention on Feb. 1, 2021, reached a pandemic high, while

Arizona · California · Minnesota · New Jersey

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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August 27, 2020 · KARA Reporting

COVID Child Abuse Update for July - August 2020

Almost every school building in the country is closed Fewer than half of students are participating in online learning in some schools, The reporting of child abuse is dropping by as much as 70% since schools shut their

Florida · Maryland · New Jersey · North Carolina · Texas · Virginia · West Virginia

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

December 31, 2017 · KARA Reporting

December 2017 Sad Stories Part I (child abuse stories & articles from your state)

Today, many state ward children are the 4th and 5th generation of abused children raising their own families without parenting skills and with serious drug, alcohol and mental health issues 37% of children overall and 57

Louisiana · Missouri · New Jersey · North Dakota · Oklahoma · Texas · Virginia

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

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

Alabama · California · Colorado · Florida · Georgia · Massachusetts · New Jersey · North Carolina · South Carolina

June 14, 2017 · KARA Reporting

CASA guardian ad-Litem News Feb -May 2017 Part I

FIND YOUR CASA here – CASA’s around the U.S. If you are not listed, send me your info and we will include it. More than 251,000 abused and neglected children find safe, permanent homes, according to casaforchildren.org.

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December 14, 2016 · KARA Reporting

December 2016 Sad Stories Part 1

MD: Youth homelessness in Baltimore higher than previously thought The Baltimore Sun - November 30, 2016 More than 1,400 young people under the age of 25 were unaccompanied by a parent or guardian, without a safe, stable

Michigan · Minnesota · New Jersey · North Carolina · South Dakota · Texas · Utah · West Virginia

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

Arkansas · California · Connecticut · Florida · Iowa · Maine · Michigan · New Jersey · North Dakota

October 8, 2016 · KARA Reporting

CASA guardian ad-Litem News Around the Nation for September 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 Sai Yang and Century College for your research and writing on this pa

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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

California · Illinois · Indiana · Iowa · Kentucky · Missouri · Montana · New Jersey · New Mexico · Ohio · Oklahoma · Oregon · South Dakota · Tennessee · Texas · Washington

August 19, 2016 · KARA Reporting

August Sad Stories (part 1)

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

California · Idaho · Michigan · Minnesota · New Jersey · Oklahoma · Pennsylvania · Texas · Virginia

June 25, 2016 · KARA Reporting

CASA guardian ad-Litem News Around the Nation for June 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 Sai Yang and Century College for your research and writing on this pa

California · Illinois · Kentucky · Louisiana · Missouri · Montana · Nebraska · New Jersey · New York · North Carolina · Ohio · Texas · Virginia

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

Alabama · Arizona · California · Colorado · Florida · Georgia · Idaho · Illinois · Louisiana · Michigan · New Jersey · New Mexico · New York · Ohio · Oklahoma · Oregon · Texas · Washington

May 12, 2016 · KARA Reporting

New Jersey Child Protection News October 2015 through April 2016

NJ: Many post-foster care teens lacking needed mental health care NorthJersey.com - October 27, 2015 In many states, children who live in foster homes age out of this system by the time they turn 18 or 21, a transition t

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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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

Arizona · California · Colorado · Indiana · Kentucky · Louisiana · Minnesota · Mississippi · Montana · New Jersey

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

Alabama · California · Colorado · Florida · Georgia · Illinois · Iowa · Kansas · Louisiana · Michigan · Minnesota · Missouri · Nevada · New Jersey · New Mexico · New York · North Carolina · Pennsylvania · Vermont · West Virginia · Wisconsin

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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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

Arizona · Arkansas · California · Colorado · Florida · Georgia · Idaho · Illinois · Indiana · Kansas · Minnesota · Mississippi · Missouri · Montana · Nebraska · Nevada · New Jersey · New York · North Carolina · Ohio · Oklahoma · Oregon · Pennsylvania · South Carolina · Texas · Wisconsin

July 25, 2014 · KARA Reporting

Most Interesting Child Abuse Articles Of The Week

altimore Sun Mandated Reporters (sanctions for not reporting) CA: Former foster youths graduate with help of Journey House Pasadena Star-News - July 23, 2014 When youth grow too old for the foster care system, they often

California · Connecticut · Florida · Georgia · Missouri · New Jersey · Oklahoma · South Carolina · Texas · Vermont

June 5, 2014 · KARA Reporting

Child Welfare In The News (find your state here - some international)

FL: Daniel Kids offering foster care training classes: More than 8,000 children are currently in Florida foster care (Includes video) News 4 Jax - June 01, 2014 Here in Florida there are over 8,000 children currently in

Florida · Louisiana · Missouri · New Jersey · New York · Ohio · Pennsylvania · Rhode Island · Tennessee · 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

February 27, 2014 · KARA Reporting

Children In The News - read about your state here (thank you child welfare.gov)

ID: Bill to protect children of faith healers in Idaho will not get a hearing Associated Press - February 26, 2014 House leaders ruled out a hearing on a bill meant to curb the number of children who die because their pa

Idaho · Illinois · Massachusetts · Michigan · New Jersey · New York · Oklahoma · Oregon

February 11, 2014 · KARA Reporting

Beaten Child Verdict $166M In NJ The Largest Ever

Despite findings of abuse, New Jersey Child protection returned four year old Jadiel Velesques to his violent family where he was beaten so badly he cannot walk or talk, is blind, and will need the care of nurses & docto

January 1, 2014 · KARA Reporting

Improving State Child Protection Systems In 2014 (whatever it takes)

Class action lawsuits get results where legislators don't (Oklahoma, Tennessee, Georgia, D.C., New Jersey, Mississippi) Proving that it's not who is your senator, but who is your attorney. Whatever it Takes. From Oklahom

Georgia · Mississippi · New Jersey · Oklahoma · Tennessee

November 29, 2013 · KARA Reporting

What Makes Us So Mean? (just wait til you're in diapers)

Tennessee Congressman Stephen Fincher (who receives 3.5 million in federal crop subsidies) told the New York Times that his bible states "he who is unwilling to work shall not eat". Not my kind of religion. Walmart pays

Connecticut · New Jersey · Tennessee

September 14, 2013 · KARA Reporting

Schools Criminalizing American Children

East coast schools are experiencing the mass incarceration and expulsion of student populations. Using police instead of counselors has lead to a giant leap in overcrowded courts, incarcerated youth, & privatized juvenil

New Jersey · New York · Pennsylvania · Texas

August 29, 2013 · KARA Reporting

CASA & GUARDIAN AD - LITEM NEWS (for August)

Local children in desperate need of CASAs. Court Appointed Special Advocates Arizona Silver Belt A CASA is a Court Appointed Special Advocate, who is there to represent a neglected or abused child's best interests and n

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August 29, 2013 · KARA Reporting

CHILD WELFARE NEWS STATE BY STATE (for August)

NBC 4 - August 28, 2013 Records obtained by NBC4 show 63 children died in Los Angeles County as a result of abuse and neglect since January 2012, including some with a lengthy history of allegations leading up to the dea

California · Florida · Massachusetts · Mississippi · New Jersey · Tennessee · Wisconsin

July 21, 2013 · KARA Reporting

Mental Health & Education (thank you Star Tribune for this honest conversation)

The complex needs of abused and neglected children are a giant, and I argue, the primary challenge facing America's education system today. Different states handle the problem in different ways, but very states make the

Minnesota · New Jersey

July 12, 2013 · KARA Reporting

A Big Step For Mental Health In Minnesota (and hopefully your state next)

A few years ago, Red Lake MN added a 3.5 million dollar mental health facility to insure that the 15 people that died in the terrific homicide / suicide never happens again. 16 year old Jeff Weise had written, blogged, a

Connecticut · Iowa · Minnesota · New Jersey

July 3, 2013 · KARA Reporting

Children Of The Incarcerated; Collateral Damage

About 3 out of 100 Americans are incarcerated, on the way to being incarcerated, or have been released from incarceration. When broken out by race, these numbers are dramatically worse for people of color. Minneapolis, M

Minnesota · New Jersey

June 28, 2013 · KARA Reporting

How Things Get Worse

What makes life worse for sexually abused five and seven year old's is not talking about it. Not reporting it. Not disclosing it publicly or privately. The fewer people that know about the wretched things that are happen

May 19, 2013 · KARA Reporting

Camp Out For Essex County CASA

Hats off to Essex County high school students bringing a voice to abused and neglected children through a coordinated effort for CASA advocacy & community awareness. In support of all the children living without a safe a

May 3, 2013 · KARA Reporting

How To Sell Guns To Five Year Old's (yes we do)

Mother Earth News this month includes weapons manufacturers marketing materials aimed at very young children. It is disturbing. It was just last week a five year old Kentucky boy killed his two year old sister with his "

Idaho · Kentucky · New Jersey · New York · South Carolina · Tennessee

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

Arizona · Colorado · Delaware · Florida · Indiana · Kentucky · New Jersey · North Carolina · Pennsylvania · Texas

February 1, 2013 · KARA Reporting

Guns and Children In Florida (it's not guns that kill people) It's Bad Laws About Guns

In Florida it is against the law for a Pediatrician to ask a patient about guns in the house. In 2010 almost 20,000 children were killed or wounded by firearms in America (A child is killed or wounded every thirty minute

Florida · New Jersey · South Carolina · Tennessee

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

Illinois · Indiana · Iowa · Michigan · Minnesota · New Jersey · Virginia

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

Alabama · Arizona · Arkansas · California · Colorado · Delaware · Florida · Georgia · Illinois · Kansas · Louisiana · Maryland · Massachusetts · Michigan · Missouri · Nebraska · New Jersey · New York · North Carolina · Ohio · Oklahoma · Oregon · Tennessee · Texas · Utah · Virginia · Washington · Wisconsin

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

Indiana · Minnesota · New Jersey · Pennsylvania

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

California · Indiana · Minnesota · New Jersey · New York · Rhode Island · Texas

December 19, 2010 · KARA Reporting

New Federal Report; Drop In Child Abuse? I Don't Believe It

The equation works like this; if fewer cases are investigated, that must mean there are fewer cases of child abuse, which leads to less funding and fewer resources for terrified and traumatized children.

Illinois · Minnesota · New Jersey · Ohio

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

February 2, 2010 · KARA Reporting

Cutting Early Childhood Programs Is Expensive and Ruins Lives

To not support children that are unable to read or function well in the classroom is to insure continued failing schools and more and bigger prisons. America is already the largest criminal nation in the world in per cap

New Jersey · Ohio

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

California · Illinois · Indiana · Maryland · Michigan · Minnesota · Missouri · New Jersey · New York · North Carolina · Oklahoma · Pennsylvania · Tennessee · Texas · Virginia

February 20, 2008 · KARA Reporting

Economics 101

A recent ACE study proved that almost 70% of the serious and violent crime committed by juveniles in Ramsey County was committed by children living in 2 to 4% of Ramsey County families.

Minnesota · New Jersey

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