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Dec312020

2021 – A More Responsive New Year For At Risk Children

All Posts from Kids at Risk Action, KARA News and Events

If there is a silver lining in this time of worldwide pain and anxiety, it will be a recognition that rebuilding families is necessary for a healthy community.

Amid the chaos of our pandemic, the trauma and misery of children locked in toxic homes is hard to see. The media, politics and confusion on a worldwide basis are focused on vaccines, reporting and management of this frightening virus.

Struggling families facing poverty, job loss, combative politics, distrust of institutions and the steady increase of COVIDs scary reality need help to survive.

Many moms and dads do not have coping skills for managing the pressure and fear of this moment. Stressed out families drink and drug more, experience more tension, conflict and domestic violence – inflicting severe collateral damage on their children.

If we can grasp the simple reality that “What we do to our children, they will do to our society” (Greek Philosopher Pliny 2000 years ago) America can rebuild communities and a nation that once led the world in quality of life.

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Dec222020

Holiday Best Wishes To Everyone & the Best Foster Child Blogs

All Posts from Kids at Risk Action, KARA News and Events

Be very careful what you believe to be true. There are many good people, the challenge is to find them.

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Dec182020

Thank You & Happy Holidays

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For the New Year, KARA is asking everyone to support the people, policies and programs that make life better for struggling families and children.

Call and write policy makers where you live and let them know about conditions for and needs of at risk children where you live.

Let’s all strive to make this a better, safer year for at risk children everywhere.

Stay on top of the issues by signing up and sharing KARA’s Free weekly email updates with people that can make a difference for the children that need it the most.

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Dec172020

Christmas for Adult Survivors of Child Abuse (NAASCA radio talk show)

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During the virus scare .. let’s each of us re-double our effort online and via the phone to inform
those around us of the devastating consequence of suffering childhood sexual abuse (CSA),
violent or physical abuse, emotional and mental trauma and neglect.

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Dec132020

SPEAK FOR A CHILD (be a voice for a child)

All Posts from Kids at Risk Action, CASA, GAL and Child Protection

Learn about the CASA guardian ad-Litem program and how your can make life better for abused and neglected children – Today, there are 500 abused and neglected children in Ramsey & Hennepin County child protective services without a guardian ad-Litem. Being a State Ward child is painful. Being a voice for that child is rewarding and makes a difference in the life of that child.

All Adults Are The Protectors of All Children; learn more here;

CASA MINNESOTA

CASA NATIONAL

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Dec102020

A Free & Powerful Mental Health Resource For Minnesota Children

All Posts from Kids at Risk Action, Reporting and News - MN Specific

This three-part mental health program is app based and self-learning (a form of artificial intelligence, it knows the user) and includes unlimited coaching…

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Dec62020

Avoiding the Mental Health Conversation (nothing to be proud of)

All Posts from Kids at Risk Action, Mental Health + Over Medication

This may be our community’s (nation’s) most serious health problem. Add the psychotropic medicating of abused children & I think it is.

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Dec12020

COVID Burnout; Health Care, Teachers, Law enforcement, Social workers & what we could do

All Posts from Kids at Risk Action, COVID 19 and its Impacts

Our communities are only as safe and healthy as the institutions that create the environment we live in.

A brief search of front line workers in education, health care, law enforcement or social work shows a growing exodus by retirement, medical leave or just walking away as COVID is making the work they do an even more extreme sacrifice than it was pre pandemic.

For those of us that live with, know or love a person engaged in keeping our children educated or the rest of us safe and healthy,we know the stresses facing these people and the fear and danger of bringing a secondary trauma or risk of COVID home at the end of the shift.

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Nov292020

Tasered and Tried as Adults – Police Training, Resources & Courts Meet America’s At Risk Children

All Posts from Kids at Risk Action, Juvenile + Criminal Justice

Trauma doesn’t heal itself and America doesn’t provide much more than Prozac for tortured 12 year olds.

For an in depth and moving photo graphic look into incarcerated children in America’s Juveniles In Justice, check out Richard Ross

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Nov262020

Good Bye David Strand – Founding KARA Board Member and Best Friend

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KARA’s Founding Board member and best friend David Strand has passed away after a long illness.

He brought a wealth of experience, passion and commitment to the cause of America’s abused and neglected children.

David came to know a great deal about how children are treated in other advanced nations because he helped to craft public policies on children’s issues while living and working in Northern Europe.

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