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

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For more than 50 years, KVC Health Systems has provided heart-centered service to children and families. These services strengthen families, prevent child abuse and neglect, and help both children and adults achieve mental health wellness. KVC Health Systems.

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

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If you have such a story, sharing it with others or with a mental health professional can help you feel freer and lighter, encourage others, and can even change the world by sparking hope. Do you believe every child deserves to be safe and connected to a strong family? We received many entries to our 2022 Story Contest.

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

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As of July 2023, KVC Health Systems ranks High or Above Average in 14 of the 15 categories. This means KVC is outperforming its peers in child welfare and mental health, its peers in healthcare more broadly, and even most for-profit companies across all sectors.

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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.

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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. A few years later, the parent organization KVC Health Systems was created. We started providing foster care case management services in Kansas in 1996.

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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.

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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. Members assigned to this high-risk category are assigned a care coordinator, which is often paid for by the payer/health plan.