The Record · NM
New Mexico
New Mexico: federal child-welfare figures and 34 pieces of KARA reporting, in full.
Federal child-welfare figures and KARA's reporting on New Mexico.
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 New Mexico
34 articles, newest first, republished in full.
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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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
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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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June 6, 2025 · KARA Reporting
Politics, Religion, and at risk Children
This is a dangerous time to be an abused child in America. Slash and burn politics and religious organizations are dismantling a large percentage of government and non governmental agencies keeping children safe. The COV
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September 12, 2024 · KARA Reporting
Child Welfare News Fall 2024 (compiled articles)
KARA compiles child abuse and neglect stories and data about abused and neglected children
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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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July 18, 2020 · KARA Reporting
For New Mexico's At Risk Children - Life is Very Hard (find your state here)
Across the board, America's Southern States seem to maintain an anti tax mantra that devalues the well-being of other people's children. This clear from the KIDS COUNT statistics over the years. This is their most recent
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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 20, 2020 · KARA Reporting
Posts & Video From ACEs Connection (+trauma informed resources for Covid19)
California's Surgeon General Nadine Burke Harris has declared Adverse Childhood Experiences a public health problem and public school crisis in her state. Posts & Video From ACEs Connection (+trauma informed resources fo
August 1, 2019 · KARA Reporting
CASA Guardian Ad Litem Activity Around the Nation (where you live)
News and stories from around the U.S. from June and July 2019. Find your CASA news here;
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June 14, 2019 · KARA Reporting
Be A Squeaky Wheel For Children
Annual teacher turnover is highest in Arizona (24%) and New Mexico (23%) Minnesota is 14th highest in teacher turnover. After my workshop in New York at the United Nations Annual Youth Assembly, a line of ex social worke
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July 9, 2018 · KARA Reporting
Child Abuse & Child Protection for June 2018
Fairfield father charged with lewd acts in addition to child abuse involving his 10 children KTVU San Francisco FAIRFIELD, Calif. (BCN) - The Solano County District Attorney's Office today charged a Fairfield father of 1
July 1, 2018 · KARA Reporting
Child Trauma & Torture, May 2018, find your state here (6)
Iowa sees spike in confirmed child abuse cases Seattle Times DES MOINES, Iowa (AP). Officials say publicity around high-profile child abuse cases in Iowa has caused a surge in such reports. Confirmed child … Iowa sees s
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July 1, 2018 · KARA Reporting
Child Abuse & Child Protection May 2018 (5)
City's toughest neighborhoods also plagued with high instances of child abuse WBAL Baltimore Some of the city's toughest communities, those plagued by crime and drugs, are also notorious for another adverse distinction:
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June 1, 2018 · KARA Reporting
Child Welfare International April 2018 (6) violence against children
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
June 1, 2018 · KARA Reporting
Stealing Candy From Minnesota Babies (thank you Safe Passage for Children of MN)
If you live with, work with or know at risk children, you know how your community values children. Not much. Since 2004, America had remained 3rd from the bottom on spending for children among the developed nations. Not
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September 20, 2017 · KARA Reporting
August Sad Stories Part I
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 generation of abused children
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July 22, 2017 · KARA Reporting
June 2017 Sad Stories Part II
KARA tracks current news about at child abuse and child protection bringing awareness and transparency to the issues of our youngest and most vulnerable citizens. These pages are only a tiny percentage of what happens to
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June 16, 2017 · KARA Reporting
CASA guardian ad-Litem News Feb thru May 2017 Part II (be a voice for children)
FIND YOUR CASA here – CASA’s around the U.S. If you are not listed, send me your info and we will include it. Find out what the other 975 CASA’s from around the nation are up to. Last year, more than 76,000 CASA and guar
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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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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 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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April 4, 2015 · KARA Reporting
What's Wrong With Kansas Part II (how the state values its children)
No longer does Kansas promise its children a full school year . Several districts are closing early because Governor Brownback effectively eliminated 51 million dollars from school budgets (cut per pupil $950 from 2008 t
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March 29, 2015 · KARA Reporting
Child Protection - The Big Lie (don't blame the service providers - its the lawmakers)
Minnesotan's talk big about how we value children and how exceptional we are as a people, a nation, a culture. Most of us claim to be spiritual people valuing life and religious teachings that protect our community and i
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February 1, 2015 · KARA Reporting
Toddler Shoots Both Parents (becoming a commonplace event)
A three year old Albuquerque NM boy shot and wounded both his parents with his pregnant mothers loaded hand gun last Saturday. His two year old sister was uninjured. Below are recent articles concerning guns and American
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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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 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
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April 1, 2013 · KARA Reporting
Tracking America's Most At Risk Children (Weekly)
Teen who killed baby sentenced to 90 days October 18, 2012. Colorado. Dylan Kuhn had called authorities stating that his 6-month-old daughter was found hanging from her crib by her next and that she wasn’t breathing. Aut
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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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October 10, 2012 · KARA Reporting
AARP vs. Five Year Olds (Abandoning America's Children)
In just a few more years, oldsters (me & many of you) will be receiving 6 times more government dollars than children in America. United States kids are already at the bottom of the barrel for teen pregnancy, sexually tr
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December 20, 2010 · KARA Reporting
Child Abuse Death; Every Child Matters
While the child abuse/child neglect crisis is one of major national concern, it also is of particular significance in the top 12 states that are above the national average for child abuse/neglect deaths (2.33 per 100,000
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January 22, 2010 · KARA Reporting
National Center for Prosecution of Child Abuse
NCPCA sends its senior attorneys throughout the country and abroad to lecture and deliver presentations on all aspects of child abuse investigation and prosecution. The federal Children's Justice Act supports multidiscip