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Jan312010

Bringing Attention to Child Abuse Deaths

All Posts from Kids at Risk Action, Child Abuse and DeathsBy Mike Tikkanen January 31, 2010

As part of a campaign to stop child abuse and neglect deaths, The Every Child Matters Education Fund and its partners—the National Association of Social Workers, the National Children’s Alliance, and the National District Attorneys Association—are running ads that urge Congress to address the fatalities that claim the lives of innocent children every day. Specifically, the ads ask Congress to hold hearings and provide emergency funds to stop state cuts in child protective services.

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Jan292010

Voices For Children Foundation Announces Their 2010 Be A Voice Feel the Magic Gala with Special Cirque Du Soleil Performers

All Posts from Kids at Risk Action, KARA News and EventsBy Mike Tikkanen January 29, 2010

Be A Voice Feel The Magic Gala benefiting Voices For Children Foundation-the fundraising arm of the 11th Judicial Circuit Guardian Ad Litem Program-is set for Saturday, February 13 at the Mandarin Oriental, Miami.

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Jan282010

How Americans Respond To Child Abuse

All Posts from Kids at Risk Action, Reporting and News - US BasedBy Mike Tikkanen January 28, 2010

This organization Childabuse.com goes a long way in measuring the attitudes and understanding this nation has towards child abuse and why public policy has lagged so far behind the reality. The more we know, the better our policies and programs;

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Jan272010

Georgia Child Protection: Too Many Children Too Few Resources

All Posts from Kids at Risk Action, Reporting and News - US BasedBy Mike Tikkanen January 27, 2010

The division has been under a consent decree since 2005. The agreement stems from a 2002 class action lawsuit in which Children’s Rights claimed that Georgia’s child protection agencies were overburdened and mismanaged. The group alleged that children languished for months in dangerous shelters, and others lived in dirty and overcrowded conditions.

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Jan262010

Spending On Children

All Posts from Kids at Risk Action, Day Care and EducationBy Mike Tikkanen January 26, 2010

The author, Nancy Folbre points out that , full-time, year-round child care for young children costs more than public university tuition in 44 states.

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Jan262010

Connect for Kids Child Advocacy 360

All Posts from Kids at Risk Action, KARA News and EventsBy Mike Tikkanen January 26, 2010

This Connect For Kids website has terrific coverage of children’s issues. Here are a few of their current stories; http://www.connectforkids.org/newsletters/update http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2009/10/community_schools.html

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Jan252010

Friends of Texas vs Friends of Children

All Posts from Kids at Risk Action, Reporting and News - US BasedBy Mike Tikkanen January 25, 2010

“What we do to our children, they will do to our society” Pliny the Elder 2500 years ago.

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Jan242010

Crimes Against Children Study New Hampshire University:

All Posts from Kids at Risk Action, Child Abuse and DeathsBy Mike Tikkanen January 24, 2010

CONCLUSIONS: The scope and diversity of child exposure to victimization is not well recognized. Clinicians and researchers need to inquire about a larger spectrum of victimization types to identify multiply victimized children and tailor prevention and interventions to the full range of threats that children face.

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Jan232010

A Program Worth Repeating

Adoption, Foster and Kinship Care, All Posts from Kids at Risk ActionBy Mike Tikkanen January 23, 2010

Every state releases youth from foster care that are troubled and without the skills or resources to cope in the community. Few states think through the consequences of the importance of youth melding into the community to become healthy and productive citizens. Here’s one great example

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Jan232010

The Evidence Is In

Aces and Trauma, All Posts from Kids at Risk ActionBy Mike Tikkanen January 23, 2010

The years of hard research this organization has done to quantify the impact of abuse on children as they become adults is as incontrovertible as it is moving.

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