Let’s Stop Counties Stealing Money From Foster Children
Repurposing Federal Foster Care dollars have become a “revenue stream” for counties because taking foster child money goes “unnoticed” (from the article). In a perfect world, a County person would...
View ArticleChild Protection and Appreciating Social Workers (we really should)
Christopher Sorenson recently wrote a compelling piece in the Star Tribune about animal safety as the foundation underlying our current child protection system and how only extreme cases of child abuse...
View ArticleChild Protection – What Needs To Change
It is not foster parents, social workers, judges or court workers making life miserable and creating a lifetime of failure for abused and neglected children in the Child Protection system. These people...
View ArticleMental Health, Prozac, Holding Pens, Children & Sheriffs – (why nurses,...
Today’s Star Tribune article about hospitals without the capacity to deal with the surge in emergency psych visits relates directly to the sheriff’s (Washington, Ramsey and Hennepin Counties) threat to...
View ArticleMinnesota At Risk Children’s News June 2016
Child Victims Act expires, but effects remain to be seen Duluth News Tribune The U.S. Bankruptcy Court reported that 125 abuse claims were filed ... It's been a little more than a week since the...
View ArticleMinnesota’s Back Story; Treating Children’s Mental Health
Today’s Star Tribune article (thank you Chris Serres) exposing the violence done to Minnesota’s youngest citizens while in state care reminded me of my own experiences growing up. In my middle class...
View ArticleWe Are All Nuts (the costs and dangers of undertreating and ignoring mental...
If you have children, grandchildren or just like other people’s children, you should read this to the end. You could help keep them safe from terrible things by understanding the connection between...
View ArticleMinnesota 7 Year Old Dies as a Martyr to a Parents Religion
Adopted seven-year old Seth Johnson has suffered terribly for years and it appears has died a painful (avoidable) death at the hands of Tim and Sarah Johnson. Thank you Paul Walsh, Brandon Stahl &...
View ArticlePunishing Traumatized Children (the beatings will continue until the morale...
Thank you Chris Serres & Star Tribune for identifying how severely the St Cloud Children’s home for children fails abused and neglected kids. Children live here because a judge found their birth...
View ArticleMinnesota Child Protection News March 2017
MN Child Protection News March 2017 KARA gathers news about abused Minnesota’s abused children every month and provides a snapshot of Child Protection and how our state values its children. If you are...
View ArticleChild Abuse – Numbers & Why They Matter (thank you Chris Serres & Star Tribune)
MN has recently forcibly closed foster group homes in St Cloud and Buhl and housed state ward children in hospital rooms because there was no place else to put them. How would it make you feel as a...
View ArticleThank God For Lawyers, Lawsuits & the Star Tribune
Today’s Star Tribune reporting on the civil rights lawsuit for abused children (by reporter Chris Serres) validates my belief that child rape and other crimes against children are the most ignored and...
View ArticleA Star Tribune Mistake (impacting millions of children each year)
"Did you all see the article in the Science and Health section of the Sunday Star Tribune? - ”Study will look at the role of childhood stress in adult disease”. There is a line in there that says, to...
View ArticleA Note to Brandon Stahl & the Tribune (abused children still need you)
It is only because you found the death of 4 year-old Eric Dean suspicious and dedicated yourself to reporting on the awful circumstances that killed him after 15 ignored reports of child abuse, that...
View ArticleFoster Mom Charged With Breaking Bones of 7-Week Old Foster Boy (thank you...
Abused and neglected State Ward children have already suffered enough when they enter foster care. To be removed from a birth home by a judge means that the child's life has been in imminent danger of...
View ArticleProsecuting Legislators (can this work?)
A single Minneapolis hospital, HCMC sees 800 to 1000 emergency psychiatric visits a month (one of many metro hospitals). There have never been enough beds and there will never be enough Prozac to...
View ArticleWhat’s a Well Trained Social Worker Worth?
It hurts me to know that I live in a state that pays the least of almost all states in training social workers and continues to underfund the federally mandated guardian ad litem program so severely...
View ArticleChild Homicides & A Week After Redlake (from 2005 – what’s changed?)
MN reported 28 child deaths from caregivers known to child protective services in 2016 (p64). 17 children were killed by abuse in the past 18 months. Less than half the deaths of at risk children...
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