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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. KVC Health Systems’ local subsidiaries are: KVC Hospitals. KVC Hospitals – Children’s Psychiatric Treatment. KVC Kansas.

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What Does KVC Stand For?

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This made it possible for KVC to meet the needs of any child and family, extending all the way to inpatient children’s mental health hospitals when needed. We started providing foster care case management services in Kansas in 1996. At the time, 30% of children were in congregate care placements.

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KVC Health Systems Ranks in Top 1% of Employers Nationwide with 77 Work Wellbeing Score

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For example, KVC and its supporters care for thousands of children in foster care , help hundreds of children either to be adopted or to safely reunify with their families , and provide life-changing treatment at its children’s mental health hospitals. Below are just some of the nearly 700 reviews KVC team members have shared. “KVC

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What Care Coordination Is and How To Implement It

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Organizations adopt care coordination to improve health outcomes and reduce the financial cost of treatments by streamlining care delivery and reducing or eliminating redundancies in care. Care coordination usually is a role that is served by nurses, case managers, or behavioral health clinicians. What is care coordination?

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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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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending December 20, 2022

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

In that article, Alexandra Travis writes about her own experience with family destruction and then asks: Tell me, if you knew our story, would you still advocate so fiercely for adoption and termination? An expert found that she could just as well have stayed home with her family and gotten treatment like intensive case management.

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A Fatal Collision: The Opioid Epidemic and the Dismantling of Child Protection Services in Washington State

Child Welfare Monitor

On a page dedicated to KFTA implementation, DCYF explains that it has implemented the law by adopting new policies and procedures to determine whether to remove a child and by training and supporting staff to implement the new procedures and determine whether there is an imminent risk of serious harm to the child.