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Monthly Archives: April 2021

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Struggles for Foster Care Children in Education

All Posts from Kids at Risk Action, Day Care and EducationBy Mike TikkanenApril 25, 2021

America has long failed to understand and address the underlying issues that drive behaviors of traumatized children. Many end up suspended, expelled or in juvenile justice. Teen and preteen pregnancies are significantly more common among them than with their peers also.

Juvenile Injustice, Race & the Supreme Court

All Posts from Kids at Risk Action, Juvenile + Criminal JusticeBy Mike TikkanenApril 23, 2021

What the jury and others may not have known before the life sentence is that by the age of 14 Miller attempted suicide four times. The first time he tried to kill himself was at the age of six.

Due to experiencing abuse by his stepfather and his mother being a drug addict and alcoholic. The victim was actually his mother’s drug dealer at the time.

Children & Gun Violence (as American as Apple Pie)

#childabuse, #kidsatriskaction, All Posts from Kids at Risk Action, Gun Violence and Control, Reporting and News - US BasedBy Mike TikkanenApril 19, 2021

In 2020, he child and teen gun death rate in the U.S. was more than 3 times higher than that in Turkey, the country with the next highest rate; 11 times higher than in Israel; 19 times higher than in Switzerland and 85 times higher than in the United Kingdom

Post COVID Juvenile Justice Trends (Casey Foundation Surveys)

All Posts from Kids at Risk Action, Juvenile + Criminal JusticeBy Mike TikkanenApril 8, 2021

his CASEY Foundation survey shows the population of Black youth in juvenile detention on Feb. 1, 2021, reached a COVID pandemic high, while that of white youth was the second lowest recorded in more than a year.

Aged Out Foster Youth Urged To Return (new federal benefits)

Adoption, Foster and Kinship Care, All Posts from Kids at Risk ActionBy Mike TikkanenApril 1, 2021

Youth who ‘aged out’ of foster care urged to return
New funding will provide $964 or more per month to eligible youth

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