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Where Bad Laws Come From (& why it’s not fair to blame the worker bees)
Brandon Stahl’s article in the Star Tribune today suggests that Minnesota is probably the only state in the nation to have forbidden social workers from considering past screened out cases of child...
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“Police & Sheriffs More Concerned About People’s Mental Health Than Advocates...
I’m always pleased to find outspoken observers in the mental health discussion. Today’s Star Tribune article begins to articulate the gaping hole in our communities (and the nation’s) approach to...
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Child Protection – The Big Lie (don’t blame the service providers – its the...
Minnesotan’s talk big about how we value children and how exceptional we are as a people, a nation, a culture. Most of us claim to be spiritual people valuing life and religious teachings that protect...
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Child Suicide, Prozac, Child Protection, and Foster Care (and how are they...
More American children (especially low-income and foster care kids) are on antipsychotics than in any other country (Governing magazine March issue). Brandon Stahl’s March 27th Star Tribune article...
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Minnesota’s Child Protection Problem (“the deeper you get into it, the worse...
Thank you Hennepin County Board for unanimously approving the Governor’s Task Force recommendations for improving Child Protection Services in MN. Thank you Governor Dayton for your “Colossal Failure”...
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Foster Care Standards Are Important (Minnesota fined for failures)
Thank you Brandon Stahl for drawing attention to the sadness I witnessed again and again as a volunteer CASA guardian ad-Litem; children re-abused and children re-entering the child protection system...
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Dear Social Worker (a note from the Casey Foundation, KARA and Daniel)
You have chosen one of the most challenging jobs on the planet. Saving children from toxic homes & helping them heal and develop the coping skills necessary to live a functioning life. How do...
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The Power of Coping Skills & Life Without Them
A sad personal email this morning from a grieving mother has caused me to reflect on friends who ended their own lives and the four, five and six year old children I have known, or known about, who...
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Dirty Little Secrets
Will Minnesota Sheriff’s sue Counties over failure (Star Tribune) to provide services to mentally unhealthy inmates? Is the Hennepin County Commissioner “failing in her public duty and violating a...
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Brandon Stahl Sets A Precedent For Excellence In Reporting (share this with...
The issues of child abuse and child protection services are complicated and not well understood by the general public, state legislators, or even the people delivering services. In the almost twenty...
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Public Records (the mystery of child abuse and child protection)
My story is triggered by a graphic demonstration of malfeasance by a public servant (Harper’s Magazine article below) and my response to conversations with Brandon Stahl at the Star Tribune and a...
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Child Protection and Appreciating Social Workers (we really should)
Christopher Sorenson recently wrote a compelling piece in the Star Tribune about child protection and how only extreme cases of child abuse make the news or public awareness. Speaking of...
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Child 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...
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Mental 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...
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How Bad Can It Get (to be a foster child in MN)?
Brandon Stahl has done it again – showing us how little our community cares about other people’s children. Poor Kira Friedman, 2 years old, abused and neglected to where her life was endangered so...
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Minnesota At Risk Children’s News June 2016
KARA gathers news about abused Minnesota’s abused children every month. We appreciate related articles submitted to us by our readers. Please send them to info@invisiblechildren.org with NEWS in the...
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Minnesota’s Back Story; Treating Children’s Mental Health
Today’s Star Tribune article (thank you Chris Serres) exposing the violence done (broken bones) to Minnesota’s youngest citizens while in state care reminded me of my own experiences growing up and my...
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We 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...
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Minnesota 7 Year Old Dies as a Martyr to a Parents Religion
STAR TRIBUNE IMAGE 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,...
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Punishing 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...
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