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A Helpful Guide to KVC’s Mental Health and Child Welfare Services in Kansas and Missouri

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If you are wondering what mental health and child welfare services KVC provides and in which areas, this guide is for you! Get ready to learn how you or others can take advantage of KVC’s child and family services. KVC Hospitals – Children’s Psychiatric Treatment. KVC West Virginia. KVC Foundation.

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Power, privilege, and passing judgment in “child welfare”: The Massachusetts “Child Advocate” gets it wrong again

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She is the state’s “Child Advocate,” and before that ran a prestigious private agency specializing in adoption and foster care. Like most people in “child welfare” her intentions are good. She has repeatedly misused her power and privilege. In a report on Harmony’s case, Mossaides exercises that judgment ruthlessly.

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What to Expect When a Child Discharges From a Children’s Psychiatric Hospital

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When a child is discharged from a children’s psychiatric hospital, they will likely experience a range of emotions and expectations for life after their hospital stay. Choosing to admit a child for inpatient psychiatric care is never easy and it can be an overwhelming decision to make. Transitioning Back to School.

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The Illinois “Public Guardian’s” big little lie

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Yet it almost never is challenged by journalists reporting on child welfare. The story in question is about the fact that foster youth are trapped in psychiatric hospitals and juvenile jails because the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services has no place to put them. By definition, that is bad journalism.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending Sept. 14, 2022

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In The Imprint I explain why Safety Science is Good for Aviation, but in Child Welfare it Won’t Fly. ? The charge is felony child neglect. ? In 2014, the Mercury News in Northern California investigated the misuse and overuse of potent psychiatric medication on foster youth. Gavin Newsom’s desk.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending October 11, 2022

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One of the things that happens to children when they’re institutionalized is they are often doped up on potent, sometimes dangerous psychiatric medication. Interesting things can happen when what used to be a garden party for the “child welfare” establishment starts inviting in some skunks.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending August 30, 2022

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People who have had their children taken away by a discriminatory child welfare system that targets Black neighborhoods for family separation do not have reproductive freedom. story about the overuse of psychiatric medication on kids. ? What makes this significant is the groups that signed on to this brief.