Rhode Island

Child maltreatment victims
NCANDS, FFY2024

Entered foster care
AFCARS, FY2022

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

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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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December 4, 2025 · KARA Reporting

In Texas 2024, only 10 Children Died of Abuse (248 died of neglect)

Texas child neglect fatalities 2024: The Most Common Cause of Child Death in Texas Isn't defined as Abuse. The Center for disease control defines child abuse with clarity as any act of physical, sexual, or emotional harm

California · Michigan · Minnesota · Rhode Island · Texas

November 25, 2025 · KARA Reporting

Trump's Child Protection Order & "NEGLECT"

President Trump’s new framing. That most child neglect cases “don’t belong” in CPS because they are “only poverty”. Ignores a very large body of evidence that (1) poverty and neglect are tightly intertwined but not identic

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October 23, 2025 · KARA Reporting

Manner of Child Death Unknown (State by State)

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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February 19, 2025 · KARA Reporting

Child Death and Public Non Disclosure (thank you Marie Cohen)

Much of this article is taken from Marie Cohen's remarkable research at the American Enterprise Institute. For those of you concerned with Child Protective Services in your community, Marie's article is detailed and powe

Minnesota · Rhode Island · Tennessee · Texas · Washington · West Virginia · Wisconsin

August 11, 2024 · KARA Reporting

What Teachers Are Facing Today and Tomorrow

Teachers feel undervalued and overwhelmed. Turnover his high and a number of states are using unqualified people to fill positions.

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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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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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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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May 2, 2017 · KARA Reporting

Sad Stories April 2017 Part II

American states are struggling to find answers for saving at risk children and reversing the explosive growth of child abuse and neglect in our communities. 37% of children overall and 57% of Black children are reported

California · Connecticut · District of Columbia · Florida · Mississippi · Oklahoma · Oregon · Rhode Island

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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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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August 14, 2014 · KARA Reporting

This Week's Child Death Reporting

DFCS child death cases spike in 2013MyAJC.comThe Atlanta Journal-Constitution published a series of stories in 2013 and 2014 cataloging Georgia's failure to protect children from abuse and neglect …

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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

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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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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

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