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20 Success Stories: Mental Health, Family Reunification, Foster Care and Adoption Support Transform Lives

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These stories came from youth and families we’ve served, foster or adoptive families who support our mission, and KVC team members who provide in-home family therapy and support, mental health treatment, foster care, adoption, inpatient children’s psychiatric treatment or other life-changing services.

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KVC Health Systems and Emporia State University Launch Data Analytics Research to Benefit Children in Foster Care

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KVC Health Systems’ largest subsidiary, KVC Kansas , has been a foster care case management provider on behalf of the Kansas Department for Children and Families since 1996. In this case, the data has been de-identified and will only be analyzed for children who are no longer in foster care. Learn more at www.kvc.org.

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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. A Moving Family Reunification Story After Foster Care. Ashley and Sean’s substance use challenges led to their children being removed from their home and put in foster care. Read it now. Read it now. Read it now.

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

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

She is the state’s “Child Advocate,” and before that ran a prestigious private agency specializing in adoption and foster care. million – and the state would save more than that in reducing needless investigations and foster care. They can send this child to better schools. In fact, it might cost, at most, $1.5

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At last! One news organization gets the makeshift placement story right!

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Once touted as a model institution, the Glen Mills School was closed after the Philadelphia Inquirer exposed widespread abuse. That shift comes amid a widespread recognition that abuses happen in those institutional settings, too — and with startling frequency. The question is, what’s the policy solution for this?”

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KVC Health Systems Launches KVC Missouri and Names New President

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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.

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

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

The 74 reports that in New York City alone “…between August 2019 and January 2022, city school employees made over 13,750 false alarm reports to the state child abuse hotline.” One of the things that happens to children when they’re institutionalized is they are often doped up on potent, sometimes dangerous psychiatric medication.