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Stories of Life-Changing Connections: Mental Health Support, Family Reunification, Foster Care and Adoption

KVC

Whether that’s a story of a foster care caseworker noticing and meeting a child’s needs, a family reconnecting after difficult times, or a community coming together for a shared cause, life is really all about positive relationships with other people. Since then, we’ve been sharing the stories online.

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20 Success Stories: Mental Health, Family Reunification, Foster Care and Adoption Support Transform Lives

KVC

These stories came from youth and families we’ve served, foster or adoptive families who support our mission, and KVC team members who provide in-home family therapy and support, mental health treatment, foster care, adoption, inpatient children’s psychiatric treatment or other life-changing services.

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Let It Be Us is Partnering with Shelter Inc. to Recruit Homes for the Emergency Foster Care Program.

Shelter, Inc

to Recruit Homes for the Emergency Foster Care Program. Children in foster care face many challenges. One of the biggest challenges is the disruption they experience when they have to leave the home where they’ve been living, whether with biological or foster family. Erica , Shelter Inc’s EFC therapist, says. .

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KVC Health Systems and Emporia State University Launch Data Analytics Research to Benefit Children in Foster Care

KVC

KVC Health Systems’ largest subsidiary, KVC Kansas , has been a foster care case management provider on behalf of the Kansas Department for Children and Families since 1996. In this case, the data has been de-identified and will only be analyzed for children who are no longer in foster care.

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Micro, Mezzo & Macro Social Work

Social Work Bubble

Micro Social Workers include the following: Psychotherapist Child Protection and Family Services Worker Foster Care & Adoption Worker Juvenile Court Liasion School Social Worker Court Advocate Probation Officer Rehabilitation Case Worker Medical Social Worker Substance Recovery Worker Forensic Social Worker Case Manager Group Therapist Behavioral (..)

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A child welfare case leads to a stunning dissent from Michigan’s Chief Justice

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

The harms of removal and sometimes also foster care can produce “worse long-term outcomes than if the child had remained at home” in many cases … But Michigan’s removal statutes do not require courts to balance these harms against the harm that might result from staying home. In contrast, McCormack wrote, when Washington D.C.

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Micro, Mezzo & Macro Social Work

Social Work Bubble

Micro Social Workers include the following: Psychotherapist Child Protection and Family Services Worker Foster Care & Adoption Worker Juvenile Court Liasion School Social Worker Court Advocate Probation Officer Rehabilitation Case Worker Medical Social Worker Substance Recovery Worker Forensic Social Worker Case Manager Group Therapist Behavioral (..)