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What Does KVC Stand For?

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KVC’s Positive Impact Grows Nationally During the 1980-90s, KVC grew to represent one of the broadest child welfare and behavioral healthcare continuums of care in the nation. A few years later, the parent organization KVC Health Systems was created. Read more about KVC’s mental health treatment services here.

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At 2021 Celebration, KVC Health Systems Will Honor Heroes, Thank Supporters and Share Its Impact

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KVC hosts this event every October to thank the generous supporters who have enabled the nonprofit organization to strengthen families, prevent child abuse and neglect, and help people achieve mental health wellness. During this time, KVC Health Systems’ nearly 1,500 team members across the U.S.

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New KVC Thriving Magazine: Find Out Why KVC Is a Great Place to Work and Read New Success Stories

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New Research: LGBTQIA+ Youth Mental Health & How You Can Help. A shocking 42% of LGBTQ youth considered suicide in the last year, and 70% of LGBTQ youth reported poor mental health throughout most of the pandemic. But when she came to KVC Hospitals, she received comprehensive medical and psychiatric treatment.

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KVC Health Systems Launches KVC Missouri and Names New President

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Bringing Innovation & Child Welfare Best Practices. She also expanded community partnerships, such as collaborating with Global Orphan Project’s CarePortal to create Protective Homes in Kansas and working with community mental health centers and churches to strengthen families and safely prevent children from entering foster care.

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5 Reasons Children Bully and How Parents Can Help

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The bully’s attempts to antagonize another child or person can come from a variety of motives. Bullying Led My Daughter to Depression & Psychiatric Hospitalization: How She Achieved Mental Health Wellness [VIDEO]. Why Do Kids Bully? . The reasons children bully can be difficult to pinpoint.

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10 Surprising Things You Didn’t Know About Social Workers

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Social workers use their skills and expertise to promote good mental health, strengthen relationships, and end generational cycles of trauma and substance use, ultimately creating healthier families and communities. child welfare services are provided or managed by the government agency in each state. In the U.S.,

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Increasing access to high-fidelity Cognitive Therapy for underserved populations

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Guest blog author Dr. Torrey Creed discusses a recently published article in the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology focused on implementing trans diagnostic cognitive therapy in diverse community settings with the Beck Community Initiative. Hofmann et al., Further, selecting the “right” EBP in which to invest can be complex.

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