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Stories of Life-Changing Connections: Mental Health Support, Family Reunification, Foster Care and Adoption

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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 mental health treatment and other life-changing services.

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

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Or, if you’re not looking for services, learn how you can join KVC as an advocate, volunteer, financial supporter, event sponsor, foster or adoptive parent, or even team member. Learn more about the rewarding process of becoming a Kansas foster or adoptive parent here. Many people associate KVC Kansas with foster care.

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How equipped is children’s social work for digital safeguarding?

Community Care

Social work skills and training gaps However, echoing previous research, (SCIE/BASW, 2019), interviewees said their workforces were not sufficiently digitally skilled, and that current case management systems were not able to adapt to the ways in which children communicate.

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A Day in the Life of a Social Worker

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KVC case managers Victoria Clark, Dalton Shump, and Micah McEwan all work for the Olathe, Kansas office, where they coordinate and support the day-to-day needs of children and teens in foster care and their families. I was adopted myself and have my own personal background with the foster care system. Dalton Shump.

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5 Must Haves for Case Management

Thousands of nonprofits rely on case management software to help collect data, manage programs, coordinate with agencies, and provide life-changing health and human services. Download this guide to learn the five things case management software must do.

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As foster care removals plummet, where’s the promised help for families?

Child Welfare Monitor

The newest report from the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS) showed that the number of children in foster care dropped to 368,530 on September in 2022–a drop of 5.8 percent over the previous year 15.6 percent since 2018. But perhaps states are using their own funds to pay for these 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. By organizing its decades of client data in a coherent, accessible, anonymous manner, data scientists can mine the information for new insights.