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Measuring What’s Important

All Posts from Kids at Risk Action, CASA, GAL and Child Protection, Reporting and News - MN SpecificBy Mike Tikkanen January 7, 2023

What is transparent and measured can be identified and improved. What is not transparent and measured remains unknown and can fester.

In business, Cost Benefit Analysis focuses on ROI (return on investment). ROI is based on “assets”, “net income” & “profitability”. That’s what business is about (money). Corporations have extremely detailed and accurate methods of measuring their “money”…

Kids, Race & the Supreme Court

All Posts from Kids at Risk Action, Juvenile + Criminal JusticeBy Mike Tikkanen January 7, 2023

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.