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Breaking Cycles of Childhood Trauma: Mike Tikkanen on ACES, Policy Reform & The Mission Behind Kids At Risk Action

Mike Tikkanen — Founder, KARA (Kids At Risk Action)

In this powerful Xraised interview, Mike Tikkanen—Founder of Kids At Risk Action (KARA)—shares what led him from a successful 30-year career as a business broker into one of the most emotionally demanding and globally relevant missions of our time: advocating for abused, neglected, and traumatized children.

Mike explains that founding KARA in 2001 was not simply a charitable move, but a response to a systemic issue he witnessed firsthand while serving as a Court Appointed Special Advocate (Guardian ad Litem). Again and again, he saw that child abuse was not an isolated, individual tragedy—it was a predictable, recurring, and structural failure with multigenerational consequences.

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