Current Kids At Risk News | INVISIBLE CHILDREN

Nov232022

Childhood Trauma + Historical Trauma = Generational Trauma

Aces and Trauma, All Posts from Kids at Risk Action, Mental Health + Over MedicationBy Mike Tikkanen November 23, 2022

Terrible trauma (like generations of slavery) and the behaviors and conflicts it creates need to be identified and discussed if they are to be fixed. Do we want higher graduation rates and lower crime and recidivism rates for our at risk youth and families?

Charlamagne Tha God has Launched a Mental Wealth Alliance Foundation to establish fundamental and far-reaching generational support for Black Mental Health.

Share this widely.

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Nov222022

What Teachers Are Facing Today and Tomorrow

Aces and Trauma, All Posts from Kids at Risk Action, COVID 19 and its Impacts, Education, Reporting and News - US BasedBy Mike Tikkanen November 22, 2022

how COVID is impacting children’s mental health
and hammering education and child well-being and Tips for Helping Students Recover From Pandemic Stress

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Nov202022

Short Powerful Videos on Child Abuse Issues (20-30 seconds)

Aces and Trauma, All Posts from Kids at Risk Action, Child Abuse and Deaths, Featured Articles, KARA News and EventsBy Mike Tikkanen November 20, 2022

These short videos capture the realities of child abuse.

Share them widely and more of us will know how to do more for kids in painful places.

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Nov172022

TRAUMA EMPOWERMENT (what I’ve learned)

Aces and Trauma, All Posts from Kids at Risk Action, Child Abuse and DeathsBy Mike Tikkanen November 17, 2022

Trauma empowerment comes from identifying and understanding what has happened. As a CASA guardian ad litem, I’ve come to know many abused children. I was the second person John ever told of the things that were done to him when he was a boy – he died last year at 80. John lived for 30…

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Nov172022

Give To the Max Day for KARA

All Posts from Kids at Risk Action, KARA News and EventsBy Mike Tikkanen November 17, 2022

Give To The Max Day Helps KARA Build our Financial Literacy Program!

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Nov152022

How Trauma Becomes Culture

Aces and Trauma, All Posts from Kids at Risk ActionBy Damon November 15, 2022

Trauma, Children, Family, Community

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Nov142022

Trauma, Children & Overwhelmed ER’s in Minneapolis

Aces and Trauma, All Posts from Kids at Risk Action, CASA, GAL and Child Protection, Child Abuse and Deaths, Mental Health + Over Medication, Reporting and News - MN SpecificBy Mike Tikkanen November 14, 2022

Fairview Masonic Children’s hospital has been overwhelmed with 145 emergency pediatric psych cases since September. A makeshift shelter in an ambulance garage is all that’s available at Fairview Masonic to protect children suffering from the traumas of child abuse and homelessness.

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Nov122022

The Cost of Tough on Crime (in tax dollars and public safety)

All Posts from Kids at Risk Action, Juvenile + Criminal Justice, Reporting and News - US BasedBy Mike Tikkanen November 12, 2022

The majority of violent and serious crime has always been committed by juveniles. Most juvenile offenders have come through Child Protective Services (MN Supreme Court Chief Justice KATHLEEN BLATZ “the difference between that poor child and a felon is about 8 years).

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Nov122022