Child Abuse, Covid & What We Know (stress and domestic violence)
Kids At Risk Action writes and reports on child abuse issues & provides a passionate voice for at risk children All Adults Are the Protectors of All Children Support KARA’s Public Service...
View ArticleFor 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...
View ArticleKARA Is Unable to Respond To Requests For Child Protection Issues
Friends of KARA, PLEASE Use the Kids At Risk Action resource library to find help for child protection and wellbeing issues.
View ArticleTrauma, Children & Overwhelmed ER’s in Minneapolis
Fairview Masonic Children's hospital has been overwhelmed with 145 emergency pediatric psych cases since September. A makeshift shelter in an ambulance garage is all that's available at Fairview...
View ArticleHere’s Something Easy You Can Do To Improve The Lives Of At Risk Children
Children's Issues in MN don't get the coverage they need. You can help KARA change this. Click Here and fill out the form recommending children's issues as the most important story right now. Think...
View ArticleChild Death and Child Abuse Articles (for September 2015 – find your...
Every month KARA publishes articles that go unnoticed outside of the community they occur. These stories are gathered from different sources all around the nation and some international stories. Please...
View ArticleImportant Information About Child Protection in MN (from Safe Passage For...
Although counties disagree, the Department wants an outside expert to review screening practices. This is because, contrary to new guidelines, counties are still responding to half as many maltreatment...
View ArticleOctober Sad Stories Part I
Drugging Our Kids: Governor signs bills to curb prescribing of psych drugs to California foster youth The Mercury News Joymara Coleman, a 24-year-old Cal State East Bay student, displays two of the...
View ArticleOctober Sad Stories Part II
WA: Can this tool fix our troubled foster care system? Crosscut Seattle - October 28, 2015 Anyone who has filed a tax return by hand knows that filling out bureaucratic forms can be a dreary,...
View ArticleKARA Is Unable To Provide Services
Dear Readers, Every so often we receive requests for hands on help and it it is necessary to remind you that KARA is a small group of people working to improve our child child well-being and child...
View ArticleCASA Guardian ad-Litem News Around the Nation December 2016 -January 2017
FIND YOUR CASA here – 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 page. These...
View ArticleChild Protection & PizzaGate KARA Interview (troubled children in a troubled...
Part 1 of a two part series looking into Child Abuse and the Child Welfare System. This episode we are joined by Mike Tikkanen, world leader in advocacy for abused children. He explains the state of...
View ArticleSave the Date (CASA guardian ad Litem event) August 3rd 630 pm
When the court is making decisions that will affect a child's future, the child needs and deserves a spokesperson -- an objective adult to provide independent information about the best interests of...
View ArticleJune Sad Stories 2017 Part I
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...
View ArticleOctober 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...
View ArticleInternational Child Protection News October thru December 2017
KARA tracks current international news about at risk children bringing transparency and attention to our youngest and most vulnerable citizens. Most child trauma & abuse never gets reported KARA...
View ArticleCriminalizing Elementary School Children (policing our schools & punishment)
Federal Funding, Zero Tolerance and Inadequate Alternatives mean that more states are policing schools with armed officers. Before the 1970's police were almost absent from elementary and junior high...
View ArticleHelping Homeless Kids In Minnesota
COVID has overwhelmed much of our safety net for youth and finding shelter space is harder now. Do you know a homeless or at risk youth in Minneapolis, ST Paul or Anoka ?(share this on your social...
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