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What Does KVC Stand For?

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Building Expertise in Serving Children & Families While KVC started as a small group home for boys, we’ve since learned from research that residential group home care is not the ideal living situation for most children. Diverse perspectives are key to our progress. Instead, “Children grow best in families.”

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KVC Health Systems Launches KVC Missouri and Names New President

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In this role, she led a team that dramatically grew community support for children who are in foster care due to abuse or neglect, increasing the organization’s foster and adoptive families by 78%, from 500 to 892 homes. Casey Foundation, Child Trends and Dr. Glenn Saxe of New York University.

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Chapin Hall prepares to whitewash abuse in foster care

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Two ways to measure rates of abuse in foster care. Guess which method Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago is using for a big new stud y they proudly announced last week. (If You’d also think they could do a little better on diversity: None of the research team or the advisors is Black. And why are they doing it this way?