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Jun102016

I’m Not The Crazy One (20,000 one & two year old’s on Prozac – now that’s crazy)

All Posts from Kids at Risk Action, Mental Health + Over MedicationBy Mike Tikkanen June 10, 2016

90% of mental health hospital beds that were available in the 1960’s are gone today while our overall population grew over 40% in that time.

When America eliminated mental health hospitals in the 60’s, teachers, juvenile and criminal justice workers and social workers became defacto mental health service providers. This is no small feat. Humans are complex beings and understanding a mind takes extensive effort & training (especially a traumatized or troubled mind). Few service providers get that training.

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Sep192013

I Wish You’d Never Been Born & Other Adverse Childhood Experiences (Videos)

Aces and Trauma, All Posts from Kids at Risk ActionBy Mike Tikkanen September 19, 2013

These are the most powerful videos from the Academy on Violence and Abuse www.avahealth.org They go a long way in explaining our nations consistently low graduation rates, terrifically high murder rates, prison populations, chronic illnesses and leading the world in sexually transmitted diseases.

All of these videos are powerful and worth your time.

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Dec112021

I tried to kill myself in the third grade

All Posts from Kids at Risk Action, Mental Health + Over MedicationBy Mike Tikkanen December 11, 2021

The American Academy of Pediatrics, American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and the Children’s Hospital Association have declared a national emergency in children’s mental health, largely due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Aug212011

I Never Know

All Posts from Kids at Risk Action, Mental Health + Over MedicationBy Mike Tikkanen August 21, 2011

Except for suicide, decisions are reversible.

You, like me, can try to do many things in life. We both hope to find things that we love and can be passionate about.

You, like me, will meet many people in our lives with the hope of finding a few good people that can become genuine friends.

Life is not easy, but it can be wonderful at times.

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Nov272023

I Could Never Do What You’re Doing (thank you Laurel Ferris & Women’s Press)

Aces and Trauma, All Posts from Kids at Risk Action, CASA, GAL and Child Protection, Child Abuse and Deaths, Reporting and News - MN SpecificBy Mike Tikkanen November 27, 2023

This short article by Laurel Ferris in Women’s Press clearly articulates what CASA Guardians do and why children need them.

From the article;

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Nov162021

Human Rights and the Psychotropic Medicating of Children

All Posts from Kids at Risk Action, Child Abuse and Deaths, Children's Rights, Mental Health + Over Medication, Mikes Favorite Posts, Reporting and News - US BasedBy Mike Tikkanen November 16, 2021

Human Rights and the Psychotropic Medicating of Children is common in foster care and juvenile justice in the U.S. Self-harm and suicidal ideation play a roll in the early death and physical harm these children suffer.

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Jan262024

HUGE NEWS: Former Chief Justice Kathleen Blatz Appointed to MN Guardian ad Litem Board

All Posts from Kids at Risk Action, CASA, GAL and Child Protection, Child Abuse and Deaths, Child Protection, KARA News and Events, Reporting and News - MN SpecificBy Mike Tikkanen January 26, 2024

After years of turmoil caused by GAL management’s efforts to end the Court Appointed Special Advocate volunteer program, Minnesota’s former Supreme Court Chief Justice Kathleen Blatz has been appointed to the GAL board.

Chief Justice Blatz attended the recent GAL board meeting where the vote was being taken to end the CASA program. She made observations and asked questions that prompted enough board member no votes to stop the elimination process.

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May62010

http://www.orphantrainridersofminnesota.com/

Adoption, Foster and Kinship Care, All Posts from Kids at Risk ActionBy Mike Tikkanen May 6, 2010

Minnesota became the first state to host an official gathering of its orphan train riders and their families with an event that took place on July 1, 1961 with nine attendees. This event was organized by two women who discovered later in life that they had ridden the same orphan train to Minnesota as young children.

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Aug272009

How You Frame the Issue

All Posts from Kids at Risk Action, Child Abuse and DeathsBy Mike Tikkanen August 27, 2009

Few people argue openly with me when I frame the health care issue around not caring for babies and very young children (there is not a religion on the planet that allows it)

Most people can be brought to understand the cost to society of having children abandoned to gangs, drugs, and poverty.

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Feb222015

How We Treat Women and Children in America

All Posts from Kids at Risk Action, Reporting and News - US BasedBy Mike Tikkanen February 22, 2015

Seriously mentally ill, Jose Guadalupe was beaten unconscious in his solitary confinement cell by correction officers on September 2. 2 months later, Tracy Johnson, IQ of 65, was pepper sprayed in the face and beaten hard enough to break his eye socket bone. This is Rikers Island, one of America’s largest correctional institutions. Throughout…

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