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Social care leaders hailed in New Year Honours

Community Care

Care staff ‘showing utmost compassion and commitment’ Townson said her honour was “humbling” and that supporting and representing home care through the pandemic and beyond had been an “absolute privilege” She added: “May the spotlight shine on all home care workers, managers, and leaders, who dedicate themselves (..)

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Keeping Families Strong

Shelter, Inc

May is National Foster Care Month, and this year’s theme is Relative and Kin Connections: Keeping Families Strong. Did you know Shelter’s Foster Care Program works to reunite families whenever it’s in the youth’s best interest and that our foster families may be traditional or home-of-relative?

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What Does KVC Stand For?

KVC

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. We started providing foster care case management services in Kansas in 1996.

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KVC Health Systems Launches KVC Missouri and Names New President

KVC

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. Bringing Innovation & Child Welfare Best Practices.

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Chapin Hall prepares to whitewash abuse in foster care

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

The other is if they try to pass off official figures about abuse in foster care as bearing any resemblance to reality. States typically claim that, in any given year, fewer than one percent of foster youth are abused or neglected in foster care. That doesn’t even count foster youth abusing each other.

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Recent happenings

Jaeran Kim

I was fortunate to be asked to present at the Pact adoption family camp. I presented a keynote about school issues based on the article I published with Pact’s Executive Director Beth Hall for the book Transracial and Intercountry Adoption.