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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. We work locally, one child, family and community at a time, while also influencing the fields of child welfare and mental health nationally.

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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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But when she came to KVC Hospitals, she received comprehensive medical and psychiatric treatment. KVC Hospitals Kansas City is commemorating 30 years of providing compassionate psychiatric treatment to youth to help them heal. Hope is a 15-year-old girl who experienced depression and tried to end her life in multiple ways. Read it now.

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

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have continued helping people with critical in-home family support, mental health treatment, foster care, adoption, inpatient children’s psychiatric treatment and more. KVC also thanks and honors its essential frontline workers who courageously continued providing child welfare and mental health services to those in need.

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KVC Health Systems Launches KVC Missouri and Names New President

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Bringing Innovation & Child Welfare Best Practices. Stephenson and KVC have been on the forefront of child welfare best practices including creating trauma-informed care, reducing residential care of children, and helping children and teens grow up in families through evidence-based family strengthening and mental health services.

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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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child welfare services are provided or managed by the government agency in each state. These agencies investigate reports of abuse and neglect, and work closely with the court system to decide whether or not to remove a child from their home. Social work is a broad, diverse field where the work extends across many settings.

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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. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 44, 130–144.

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