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Guest Post: We are listening: Responding to recent child abuse...

Calls to the Colorado Child Abuse and Neglect Hotline rose for the fourth consecutive year last year. In 2018, an astonishing 221,969 calls were made...

MiDian Holmes steps aside, will not take Denver school board seat

Originally posted on Chalkbeat by Melanie Asmar and Eric Gorski on April 14, 2016   MiDian Holmes announced on her Facebook page Thursday night...

Denver school board knew of child abuse conviction before appointing new...

Originally posted on Chalkbeat by Eric Gorski on April 13, 2016 The Denver school board knew about parent activist MiDian Holmes’ decade-old misdemeanor child...

#Coleg Notebook: Child abuse prevention and renewable energy for schools

Unanimous support for child sexual assault prevention bill Fears in the sexual assault prevention community that conservative lawmakers might use a child abuse bill by Sen. Linda...

Littwin: A Parent’s Bill of Rights, brought to you live from...

As you've no doubt heard, Colorado is last in the nation -- dead last -- when it comes to kindergartners being vaccinated against measles. It's...

Vatican defense: ‘Only 5%’ of clergy sex abusers and most of...

** Updated Below** Wednesday in Geneva, Vatican representative to the United Nations Archbishop Silvano Tomasi defended the Church against accusations of irresponsibility in the...

Colorado’s failing economy leaves kids dangling

With more Colorado kids living in poverty, and efforts stalled to improve the state's child-welfare system, the free-falling economy has left the state’s most vulnerable kids without a safety net.