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

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The Executive Team also includes Erin Stucky, Chief Operations Officer; Chad Anderson, Chief Clinical Officer; Lonnie Johnson, Chief Information Officer; and Sherri Lohe, Chief Financial Officer. The next subsidiary is KVC Kansas which provides child welfare and mental health services. Many people associate KVC Kansas with foster care.

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To Strengthen Children’s Mental Health, KVC Missouri & Great Circle Finalize Agreement to Integrate

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The expanded KVC Missouri team will serve thousands of families each year, offering preventative family strengthening services, foster care , children’s mental health treatment, educational academies, and other services from 20 locations including Kansas City, St. Louis, and Springfield. Learn more at www.kvcmissouri.org.

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NCCPR family preservation news and commentary round-up for the year 2023, Part Two

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Fong asks in a commentary for the Hartford Courant if the head of the state’s family police agency will make sure there’s no foster-care panic. She writes: DCF has expressed a commitment to keeping families together, and has worked, impressively, to decrease foster care caseloads and refer families to community supports.

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A chilling dispatch from Saviorland: A new book reveals the true nature of an institution widely touted by those who want to institutionalize more children. It also reveals a whole lot more.

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

A wise, nurturing community-run human services system, working with the whole family, easily could have dealt with that; there were those huge reserves of love to work with. The school was established in 1909 by the founder of the chocolate company. The school has an endowment of $17 billion – yes billion.

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News Items – September 30, 2021

Social Workers Speak

Victor Armstrong is the first chief health equity officer at the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services. Will Francis, executive director of NASW-TX, is a guest: [Audio] After A Decade Of Legal Scrutiny, Texas’ Foster Care System Is Still Failing To Keep Kids Safe. The Charlotte Observer.

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Lessons from two child welfare court decisions

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has issued a scathing rebuke to Philadelphia’s family police agency, the Department of Human Services, rejecting the idea that its caseworkers are effectively exempt from the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution and a similar clause in Pennsylvania’s constitution.

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News Items – March 18, 2022

Social Workers Speak

“Access to gender affirming care for youth saves lives, reduces the likelihood of harm, and promotes healing.”. ‘It It really will have almost no impact at all’: WV lawmakers strip social worker raises from foster care bill. Judith Guberman is a member: How to Be a Partner, Not a Parent, When Providing Care for a Spouse.