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Back to School Tips for Students in Out-of-Home Care

CO4Kids

Back to Blogs Parent Partner Blog Back to School Tips for Students in Out-of-Home Care School’s back in session and the transition can be tough for students in out-of-home care, caregivers and others that support them. Find your student’s school district’s Child Welfare Education Liaison (CWEL). Communicate.

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Chapin Hall prepares to whitewash abuse in foster care

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Their “study” methodology guarantees most abuse will be overlooked, and their advisory panel consists of extremists who want to expand the child welfare surveillance state while denying any problem with racial bias. The study is being conducted with advice from “an External Advisory Board made up of child welfare scholars.”

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What Does KVC Stand For?

KVC

KVC’s Positive Impact Grows Nationally During the 1980-90s, KVC grew to represent one of the broadest child welfare and behavioral healthcare continuums of care in the nation. We work locally, one child, family and community at a time, while also influencing the fields of child welfare and mental health nationally.

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Keeping Families Strong

Shelter, Inc

When children cannot remain safely in their home, placement with relatives and kin —both formally through the child welfare system and informally through family arrangements—can increase stability, reduce trauma, and help children maintain a sense of family, belonging, and identity. View Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ).

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KVC Health Systems Launches KVC Missouri and Names New President

KVC

Bringing Innovation & Child Welfare Best Practices. 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.

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Meet the Morgan County DHS Team: 100+ Years of Dedication and Expertise

CO4Kids

Throughout her years with the department, she went on to work with youth in residential facilities, families involved in child welfare, foster parents, and children and youth in foster care before moving on to supervisory and administrative roles. I love when kids get to go back home and things just get better with parents.

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

Child Welfare Monitor

On August 24, 2024, the Washington Department of Children, Youth and Families (DCYF) proudly announced in a press statement that it had reduced the number of children in out-of-home care by nearly half since 2018. Specifically, the number of children in foster care had fallen from 9,171 in 2018 to 4,971 as of August 14, 2024.