article thumbnail

How equipped is children’s social work for digital safeguarding?

Community Care

Social work skills and training gaps However, echoing previous research, (SCIE/BASW, 2019), interviewees said their workforces were not sufficiently digitally skilled, and that current case management systems were not able to adapt to the ways in which children communicate.

article thumbnail

KVC Health Systems Ranks in Top 1% of Employers Nationwide with 77 Work Wellbeing Score

KVC

This began a shift to reclaim the values-driven culture of KVC’s early days, creating a highly engaged, exceptional place to work. Learn more about work wellbeing and engagement, how KVC has created a positive, supportive culture, and how that culture benefits employees, clients, and supporters alike.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

What Does KVC Stand For?

KVC

We started providing foster care case management services in Kansas in 1996. Through in-home family strengthening services, foster care, adoption, mental health treatment, disability services, and children’s mental health hospitals, we’re giving people hope and helping children and families thrive.

article thumbnail

Ultimate Social Work Intervention Strategies

Social Work Haven

Typically, assessments are perspectives constructed at a particular time and place, and include the following elements (Parker, 2013): Preparation , planning , and engagement involve working with the individual requiring support to introduce the need to perform an assessment and agree on how the social worker will carry it out.

article thumbnail

Social Worker Home Visit Checklist to Take Note Of

Social Work Haven

This is why many agencies and local authorities have adopted standardised social worker home visit checklists. Moreover, clients without internet access or a computer may struggle to effectively communicate with their case manager or other social workers, potentially leading to misunderstandings or missed opportunities for support.

article thumbnail

A Helpful Guide to KVC’s Mental Health and Child Welfare Services in Kansas and Missouri

KVC

Or, if you’re not looking for services, learn how you can join KVC as an advocate, volunteer, financial supporter, event sponsor, foster or adoptive parent, or even team member. Typically they have engaged in outpatient services but haven’t experienced improvement. Many people associate KVC Kansas with foster care.

article thumbnail

A Day in the Life of a Social Worker

KVC

KVC case managers Victoria Clark, Dalton Shump, and Micah McEwan all work for the Olathe, Kansas office, where they coordinate and support the day-to-day needs of children and teens in foster care and their families. I was adopted myself and have my own personal background with the foster care system. Dalton Shump.