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What Does KVC Stand For?

KVC

Building Expertise in Serving Children & Families While KVC started as a small group home for boys, we’ve since learned from research that residential group home care is not the ideal living situation for most children. We started providing foster care case management services in Kansas in 1996.

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Keeping Families Strong

Shelter, Inc

May is National Foster Care Month, and this year’s theme is Relative and Kin Connections: Keeping Families Strong. Did you know Shelter’s Foster Care Program works to reunite families whenever it’s in the youth’s best interest and that our foster families may be traditional or home-of-relative?

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Child welfare in Arizona: Don’t believe the spin from the agency where workers called themselves “professional kidnappers.”

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Nearly 15% of Native American children, nearly 15% of Hispanic children and nearly 20% of Black children will be placed in foster care, according to the study. Since that time, we have made vast systemic improvements, including reducing entries into care and reducing our out-of-home care population by 24%.”

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Social care leaders hailed in New Year Honours

Community Care

Care staff ‘showing utmost compassion and commitment’ Townson said her honour was “humbling” and that supporting and representing home care through the pandemic and beyond had been an “absolute privilege” She added: “May the spotlight shine on all home care workers, managers, and leaders, who dedicate themselves (..)

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Chapin Hall prepares to whitewash abuse in foster care

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

The other is if they try to pass off official figures about abuse in foster care as bearing any resemblance to reality. States typically claim that, in any given year, fewer than one percent of foster youth are abused or neglected in foster care. That doesn’t even count foster youth abusing each other.

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Regional care commissioning ‘risks greater costs, bureaucracy and remote decision making’

Community Care

.” Fostering Network chief executive Kevin Williams welcomed the RCC proposals, but said: “We must learn the lessons from the past and make sure that any new regional structures enhance and improve local planning, commissioning and recruitment. “Overwhelmingly, local authorities and IFAs work well together.

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KVC Health Systems Launches KVC Missouri and Names New President

KVC

In this role, she led a team that dramatically grew community support for children who are in foster care due to abuse or neglect, increasing the organization’s foster and adoptive families by 78%, from 500 to 892 homes. It is called the Foster Care Adoption Resource Services, Training and Consultation (FCARSTC) program.