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Wisconsin: federal child-welfare figures and 69 pieces of KARA reporting, in full.
Federal child-welfare figures and KARA's reporting on Wisconsin.
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 Wisconsin
69 articles, newest first, republished in full.
June 28, 2026 · KARA Reporting
Kudos to Wisconsin for Tracking Child Death and Egregious Harm
Wisconsin’s public website for child death and egregious CPS incidents shows what honest tracking can look like. Minnesota’s Safe Passage child fatality report revealed children murdered by caregivers while known to CPS,
Arizona · California · Colorado · Iowa · Minnesota · Wisconsin
May 2, 2026 · KARA Reporting
Essential Foster Care Videos and Podcasts: Powerful Resources for Foster Youth and Families
Aging Out of Foster Care: Hannah’s Story – Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption. Short video about abuse, instability in care, and aging out at 18, stressing that teens are never too old to need a permanent family.
April 9, 2026 · KARA Reporting
Tracking Foster Youth Into Adulthood: What Leading States Already Know
To understand how Child Protection Works (and doesn't work) tracking CPS/foster youth into adulthood by linking child welfare to education, work, housing, and justice data needs to happen across America. These examples s
California · Illinois · Iowa · Washington · Wisconsin
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
February 28, 2026 · KARA Reporting
Essential Foster Care Videos and Podcasts: Powerful Resources for Foster Youth and Families
Aging Out of Foster Care: Hannah’s Story – Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption. Short video about abuse, instability in care, and aging out at 18, stressing that teens are never too old to need a permanent family.
October 9, 2025 · KARA Reporting
Child Abuse Sad Stories (4 days in October)
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 · Colorado · Florida · Georgia · Illinois · Nebraska · Pennsylvania · South Dakota · Texas · Utah · Wisconsin
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
May 10, 2025 · KARA Reporting
Kids At Risk Action History
KIDS AT RISK ACTION / KARA / INVISIBLE CHILDREN HISTORY
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
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
November 16, 2024 · KARA Reporting
Why Children Need Mandated Reporters
http://invisiblechildren.org/2013/07/04/mandated-reporting-or-basic-responsibility-its-absence-is-killing-wisconsin-pennsylvania-children/ Facebook Replacing Mandated Reporters for Child Abuse? Don't Blame The Mandated R
June 15, 2024 · KARA Reporting
KARA Presentation Janesville CASA (heart of the matter)
KARA Presentation Janesville CASA (heart of the matter) Child Protection work is hard. Community CASA volunteers (Court Appointed Special Advocate) speak for abused and neglected children in County Child Protection. Volu
April 26, 2024 · KARA Reporting
CASA of Rock County's Break The Cycle Luncheon
CASA of Rock County's Break The Cycle Luncheon
February 12, 2024 · KARA Reporting
Lies We Tell Ourselves About Child Sex Abuse
Lies We Tell Ourselves About Child Sex Abuse: the incidence of sexual abuse in child protection cases has been increasing over the years. The reported percentages for sexual abuse were 17.9% in 2014, 20.9% in 2015, 23.7%
June 16, 2023 · KARA Reporting
Hospital Mental health services closing across America May 12 – June 16 2023
Social media, political and community outrage and COVID Lockdown stress are overwhelming mental health caregivers and institutions in every community - Child suicide/self-harm are rising dramatically Speak out, Share thi
Arizona · California · Illinois · Maryland · Massachusetts · Michigan · Mississippi · Washington · Wisconsin
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
December 1, 2022 · KARA Reporting
MN Child Abuse News Week of 11.30.22
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)
August 3, 2022 · KARA Reporting
Tasered and Tried as Adults
Expelled from elementary school, pregnant in junior high and facing a criminal justice system before they are able to drive a car. The cost to society in taxes, public health, education and safety is astronomical and the
January 30, 2022 · KARA Reporting
Other People's Children Are Not Society's Problem - Senator Ron Johnson
Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson is not alone in publicly stating the expensive and mean spirited political platform Other People's Children Are Not Society's Problem - Senator Ron Johnson
Alabama · Arizona · California · Iowa · Minnesota · New York · 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
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
August 19, 2021 · KARA Reporting
Domestic Violence Report August 2021
For abused children, there have been no classrooms to escape to and many mandated reporters have been unable to visit children to hear their stories and see their bruises. This must feel like a war to children living in
California · Connecticut · Florida · Missouri · New York · Ohio · Pennsylvania · South Carolina · Texas · Virginia · Wisconsin
June 1, 2021 · KARA Reporting
Trauma & Child Self-Harm
Today, the chronic high stress of the COVID lockdown is growing anxiety, depression and behavioral problems everywhere, but especially in the homes of at risk children.
California · Colorado · Texas · Wisconsin
May 28, 2021 · KARA Reporting
COVID Complicates the Mental Health of Traumatized Children
The severity of the mental health issues hammering traumatized children suffering from the abuse, neglect and traumas of an entire year of COVID lockdown without respite will become apparent to all of us soon.
Colorado · Connecticut · Florida · Ohio · Texas · Washington · Wisconsin
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
April 20, 2020 · KARA Reporting
Violence Against Children & Covid19 – (it’s own pandemic) part III
Shelter In Place locks abused children in toxic homes With no escape to the safety of a classroom Domestic violence is rising and law enforcement & social workers are having a hard time keeping up. CLICK HERE FOR RESOURC
Connecticut · Georgia · Illinois · Indiana · New York · Ohio · South Carolina · Washington · Wisconsin
March 6, 2020 · KARA Reporting
Foster Care News 2019
The first article in this series is a CASEY Foundation Q&A about recruiting American Indian Foster Parents in Oklahoma and fixing the State’s struggling child welfare system. All states are struggling to find safe homes
Alabama · California · Illinois · Kentucky · Michigan · New York · North Carolina · Ohio · Oklahoma · Wisconsin
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;
Iowa · Montana · New Mexico · Oklahoma · Rhode Island · South Carolina · Texas · Utah · Virginia · Washington · Wisconsin
March 26, 2019 · KARA Reporting
Preteen Moms & Why (stories & statistics)
May had her first child while living as a state ward in a group home when she was 16 and her second child when she was 18 before aging out of foster care. Her mother was 17 when May was born. Her grandmother was even you
January 10, 2019 · KARA Reporting
Recent Child Burns/Torture Reporting & Statistics
Only the worst child abuse is reported Most child child trauma and torture is not discovered Find your state & resources here;
Alabama · Kansas · New York · Ohio · Utah · Virginia · Wisconsin
January 1, 2019 · KARA Reporting
Recent Infant Abuse Death Reports & Statistics
KARA (Kids At Risk Action) tracks news about at risk children - Find your state here…
Mississippi · New York · North Carolina · Ohio · Texas · Wisconsin
August 2, 2018 · KARA Reporting
July Domestic Violence & Violence Against Children (part 1)
New domestic violence law will help victims Human Rights Commission The Human Rights Commission welcomed the final reading of the Domestic Violence Victims Protection Bill which will come into force early next year.
July 12, 2018 · KARA Reporting
CASA Guardian ad Litem News for Summer 2018
Speak for a child in child protection as a CASA guardian ad litem (children need to be heard)
Arizona · California · Connecticut · Florida · Georgia · Massachusetts · North Carolina · Ohio · Pennsylvania · Texas · 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
California · Georgia · Michigan · Missouri · Nevada · New Hampshire · Oklahoma · South Carolina · Texas · Wisconsin
June 12, 2018 · KARA Reporting
Child Welfare by State (statistics & news April 2018 (9) child death
American states are struggling to find answers for ending adverse childhood experiences (ACES) and saving at risk children by reversing the explosive growth of child abuse and neglect. Today, many state ward children are
June 9, 2018 · KARA Reporting
Child Welfare by State (statistics & news April 2018 (8) neglect
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
Idaho · Maryland · Minnesota · North Dakota · South Carolina · Tennessee · West Virginia · Wisconsin
April 21, 2018 · KARA Reporting
Child Abuse, Death & Trauma March 2019 (IX)
Tuesday morning baby death is Milwaukee's 13th of the year WISN Milwaukee Tuesday morning's death of a five-month-old girl is the 13th baby death so far this year, a medical examiner's office spokesperson said. Emergency
Arizona · Georgia · Massachusetts · Pennsylvania · South Dakota · Wisconsin
April 9, 2018 · KARA Reporting
Child Well Being Statistics, Stories & Trauma March 2018 (V)
Woman Arrested In Death Of 11-Month-Old Girl CBS Boston / WBZ QUINCY (CBS) – A 27-year-old Quincy woman is facing charges in the death of a baby. Prosecutors say Shu Feng Hsu assaulted 11-month-old Chloe Chen in February
Arizona · Georgia · Massachusetts · Pennsylvania · South Dakota · Wisconsin
January 11, 2018 · KARA Reporting
MN At Risk Children's News July - September 2017 (II)
KARA gathers news about Minnesota’s abused children to provide a snapshot of Child Protection and how our state values its children. Only a fraction of serious child abuse stories, statistics and facts we should be aware
Georgia · Minnesota · North Carolina · North Dakota · Pennsylvania · Wisconsin
October 3, 2017 · KARA Reporting
Traumatized Children - Nurturing vs. Punishment (Hooray Wisconsin)
Wisconsin is lowering teen pregnancy rates, reducing violence in juvenile detention centers and decreasing emergency room visits by employing ACEs trauma informed practices. They are also saving lots of taxpayer dollars.
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
California · Montana · Nebraska · New Mexico · North Carolina · Wisconsin
July 30, 2017 · KARA Reporting
Your Tax Dollars At Work (child welfare vs. corporate welfare - who wins?)
Art Rolnick’s Star Tribune article Sunday struck a powerful chord about how corporate welfare has been trumping the welfare of children.
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
California · Florida · Minnesota · Missouri · Nebraska · New Mexico · Pennsylvania · South Dakota · Tennessee · Wisconsin
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
Florida · Kentucky · Maine · Michigan · Minnesota · New York · Oklahoma · Pennsylvania · Wisconsin
March 4, 2017 · KARA Reporting
February 2017 Sad Stories (part III)
Dyers sentenced to 15 years for felony child abuse The Coloradoan Two Fort Collins parents convicted of neglecting their daughter's seizure condition and allowing her to all but waste away were sentenced Thursday to … Fo
Colorado · Florida · Hawaii · Michigan · New York · Wisconsin
September 10, 2016 · KARA Reporting
Minnesota Child Protection News August 2016
KARA gathers news about abused Minnesota’s abused children every month and works to provide a snapshot of Child Protection and how our state values its children. If you are an aspiring writer/reporter, KARA needs you to
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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November 22, 2015 · KARA Reporting
A New Disease of the Wealthy & Powerful
Wisconsin Representative Paul Ryan and new Speaker of the House voted NO to federal childcare subsidies, eliminated 16 billion dollars in Social Services block grants, including all child care funding for low income fami
August 19, 2015 · KARA Reporting
Child Death and Child Abuse Articles (for August 2015 - find your state/country here)
CA: County responses unacceptable (Opinion) Ukiah Daily Journal - August 02, 2015 The Mendocino County Health and Human Services Agency's response to the Grand Jury is one of the most twisted documents I have ever read.
Colorado · Illinois · Iowa · Kentucky · Massachusetts · Texas · Virginia · Wisconsin
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)
Alabama · California · Colorado · Florida · Georgia · Illinois · Iowa · Louisiana · Michigan · Minnesota · Missouri · Nevada · New Jersey · New York · North Carolina · Ohio · Pennsylvania · Vermont · West Virginia · Wisconsin
February 28, 2015 · KARA Reporting
Sad Children Stories From February
The following sad stories have been gathered from around the nation and give an indication of how different states are handling child abuse and child protection. Find your state here;
Alabama · Alaska · Arizona · Arkansas · California · Colorado · Florida · Georgia · Illinois · Indiana · Kentucky · Louisiana · Maryland · Massachusetts · Michigan · Missouri · Montana · Nebraska · Nevada · New York · Ohio · Oregon · Pennsylvania · South Carolina · Texas · Utah · Vermont · West Virginia · Wisconsin
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
November 26, 2014 · KARA Reporting
Dear Governor Dayton's Task Force On Child Protection (for the record)
Dear Governor's Task Force People, I've been a volunteer CASA guardian ad-Litem since 1996 and witnessed many terrible things being done to children both in and out of child protective services (none of them ever made th
October 19, 2014 · KARA Reporting
Child Protection News - Your State Here (Texas and Florida are tied once more)
Medical News Today - October 09, 2014 More than half of federal and state prisoners are parents of nearly 1.5 million minor children, and one-fifth of prisoners have children under the age of five. Children of incarcerat
Connecticut · Florida · Ohio · Texas · Wisconsin
September 24, 2014 · KARA Reporting
Child Protection News (gathered nationally - find your state here)
-CA: Drugging Our Kids San Jose Mercury News - September 20, 2014 Children in California's foster care system are prescribed unproven, risky medications at alarming rates. http://webspecial.mercurynews.com/druggedkids/?p
California · Florida · Minnesota · Mississippi · Nebraska · Ohio · Pennsylvania · South Carolina · Washington · Wisconsin
September 8, 2014 · KARA Reporting
Brandon Stahl Reports (reporting on the reporter)
ois Jurgens tortured and killed her three year old adopted son Dennis Jergens over time and in a most brutal fashion. She was the adoptive mother of six children and she tortured them all over long periods of time. She w
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
August 8, 2013 · KARA Reporting
Child Welfare In The News (find your state - nation here) 100+ articles
Child Welfare in the News is distributed at no charge by Child Welfare Information Gateway (www.childwelfare.gov), a service of the Children's Bureau/ACF/HHS (www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cb). It features news stories on top
California · Illinois · Indiana · Oregon · Pennsylvania · South Carolina · Tennessee · Texas · Wisconsin
February 19, 2013 · KARA Reporting
CASA guardian ad-Litem News From Around The Nation
Without court appointed CASA guardian ad-Litems, America's at risk children have no voice in the homes they are raised in or for years as state wards in foster care. Some states (Virginia most recently) are moving toward
California · Colorado · Indiana · Ohio · Oklahoma · Oregon · Pennsylvania · Virginia · Wisconsin
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
February 28, 2012 · KARA Reporting
Lying To Ourselves About Caring, Children, & Religion
Jeremy Olson's hard hitting piece in today’s Star Tribune about this communities not caring enough for children to provide them with essential services to lead a normal life starts a badly needed conversation. The child
February 21, 2012 · KARA Reporting
It Can't Happen Here (it Does happen here)
State probation agents made three visits since mid-December to the Madison, Wis., house where prosecutors say a 15-year-old girl was tortured, starved and abused by her parents and stepbrother, according to the Wisconsin
January 30, 2011 · KARA Reporting
Child Abuse, Child Mortality, Hating vs. Caring
The public reaction when a baby dies or is found in a dumpster should be one of sadness and a desire to see that children are safer in their community. Something like, "what can we do to see that this does not happen aga
February 19, 2010 · KARA Reporting
Someplace Where We Can Be A Family
The "burden of eviction is Heavier on Black Women, Research in Milwaukee Shows" reads the New York Times today, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/19/us/19evict.html
July 5, 2009 · KARA Reporting
Toddler found submerged in St. Paul bathtub dies
Our Child Protection System Brutal Truths and Best Practices Forum at Century College Join our focused and energetic conversation ab out children in need of protection and the people, programs, and policies that impact t
April 27, 2009 · KARA Reporting
Wisconsin officials have agreed to an aggressive new plan aimed at fixing persistent problems
Wisconsin officials have agreed to an aggressive new plan aimed at fixing persistent problems in the state-run system responsible for providing care and protection to abused and neglected children in Milwaukee. The new C
June 30, 2006 · KARA Reporting
Call To Justice Forum June 28th
Only ten percent of the citations issued in Hennepin County to people of color are prosecuted (90% are dismissed). 44% of African American men living in Hennepin county were arrested in 2001 (without any duplicate arrest
Alabama · Arkansas · Minnesota · Mississippi · Wisconsin
May 12, 2005 · KARA Reporting
Unhappy Schools
Investing in early childhood programs and mental health services could actually save us money, and certainly make our streets safer, and our communities more pleasant to live in. It’s not so much about money- Minnesota’s