The Value of Healthy Children
Friends, I met with State Senator Mee Moua recently. She is the first legislator I have connected with who shows a genuine interest in creating a public dialogue around the issues of children’s mental...
View ArticleA Note From The Children’s Defense Fund
I’m pleased to be a CDF fellow. Marian Wright Edelman has made great efforts for many years to bring attention to the significant issues faced by at risk children. This from her at the Children’s...
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Cruel & False Savings Are Cheating America’s Abused & Neglected Children (again)
I write about children in my CASA caseload that have cost my county & state millions of dollars because tight funding demanded extreme scrutiny & less than adequate resources to save them from...
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Let’s Start The Conversation
The conversation critical for improving the lives of at risk children and the quality of life in this nation is not happening today. Because we don’t like to talk about it, there is little...
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GOP Is Right; We Are Spending Too Much (because we invest too little)
David Strand is a KARA board member, he has lived in Finland, worked on the making of public policies for children and written about how other advanced nations make public policy on children’s issues....
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Politics & Children – A Zero Sum Game
A very recent MN Governor (not this one) ended subsidized daycare in the state – the waiting list is now 7000 children. Two percent of MN children are enrolled in high quality early childhood...
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Where Bad Laws Come From (& why it’s not fair to blame the worker bees)
Brandon Stahl’s article in the Star Tribune today suggests that Minnesota is probably the only state in the nation to have forbidden social workers from considering past screened out cases of child...
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Let Me Show You The Money
I once owned a junkyard that recycled cars so I’m pretty good with managing maintenance, money, expenses and greasy auto parts. Later I became a volunteer Hennepin County guardian ad Litem – which I...
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