What We Do
KARA’s offerings, from a free weekly newsletter to a full keynote, and the programs behind them.
Deep Dive
Tell the KARA team what you need to know about child welfare. They send back a curated package of research and resources: the primary sources, the numbers, and where they came from.
What you get
- A written package built for your question, not a search-results list.
- Primary sources named and linked, so every figure can be checked.
- Free, with no account and no limit on who can ask.
Free Offerings
Free to every reader — funded by recurring gifts.
Newsletter & Social
KARA’s weekly Friday newsletter from Mike and the KARA Team, plus daily updates across social media. Free — donations keep it going.
Legislator & Journalist Outreach
Direct briefings for the people who can move the system — lawmakers, journalists, and the groups that reach them.
Invisible Children — the Book
Read, listen, or download the PDF free on this site. Prefer print? The paperback is on Amazon.
“How To” Toolkits
Role-based playbooks for the professionals kids actually meet. Free for individuals; institutional licensing is available.
Traveling Exhibit
Invisible Children: Trauma and Healing — bookable for campuses, libraries, and community spaces.
“How I Can Help” Series
Coming soon — Lawrence King’s series on practical ways anyone can show up for kids at risk.
Coming soon
KARA Conversations
Child-protection education for the groups most likely to encounter it: schools, foster and adoption networks, faith communities, agencies, healthcare and social-service teams.
What you get
- A session built to your audience, from a 15-minute one-on-one to a full keynote.
- Frontline stories and community-focused guidance, not a slide deck of statistics.
- Follow-on resources after the session: deep-dive tools and navigators.
Paid Offerings
The formats that fund the free work.
15-Minute Zoom — $15
A one-on-one, single-issue session: pick the topic, the speaker arrives prepared to it.
30-Minute Group Overview — $75
An introduction to child abuse, trauma, and how child protective services works — with time for questions.
60-Minute Group Deep Dive — $250
A customized presentation, toolkit walk-through, or dialogue built around your organization’s goals.
Keynotes
Conference and major-event engagements, quoted individually by scope, audience, and format.
Institutional Toolkit Licenses — $5/month
Whole-organization access to the toolkit library for schools, agencies, and departments.
More KARA Programs
Ongoing partnerships and program work behind the offerings.
Campus Conversations
Traveling presentations to universities and community groups within about an hour of the Twin Cities.
Hamline Partnership
Ongoing collaboration with Hamline University on child-protection curriculum.
International Work
Cross-border child-protection work, including UN Youth Assembly speaking history.
CASA Ad Grants
Helping CASA organizations tap Google’s Ad Grants — up to $10k/month in free ads for volunteer recruitment.
Financial Literacy + Grant Program
Peer groups and direct grants for fostered and adopted MN youth, 18–28: money tools, wealth habits, and seed funding to start.
America’s Children in 100 Charts
KARA’s next book, underway now. What trauma does to children, chart by chart. Draft chapters are open to readers.
Child Abuse Information & Solutions Platform
The AI-driven national database on abuse, neglect and trauma. KARA SIGNAL and the Resource Navigator are its first live pieces.