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

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If you are wondering what mental health and child welfare services KVC provides and in which areas, this guide is for you! Get ready to learn how you or others can take advantage of KVC’s child and family services. Typically they have engaged in outpatient services but haven’t experienced improvement.

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A disappointing report from the Senate Finance Committee

Child Welfare Monitor

Ripley previously founded Sequel Youth and Family Services, which became known for the death of 16-year-old Cornelius Frederick while being restrained at a Michigan facility in 2020 and allegations of abuse and neglect at other Sequel facilities. ” Stories like this have been appearing from around the country for years.

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Myth-making in Maine

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Department of Health and Human Services Trends in Foster Care and Adoption, FFY 2011-2020 Using the same limited measures, OPEGA suggests that child abuse deaths in June 2021 didn’t have much effect, since investigations didn’t increase. Source: U.S. There are three problems with this: ? Emphasis added.]

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Maine’s child welfare ombudsman is dangerously wrong

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Landry runs the Office of Child and Family Services within Maine’s Department of Health and Human Services. Throughout the case, despite the fact that the parent was engaged in treatment, the treatment was not effective. But Alberi seems to want OCFS to adopt a policy that boils down to: Please pass the salt.

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Flying blind: the strange story of a strategy, an ideology, and an evaluation

Child Welfare Monitor

Readers are invited to practice self-care while navigating this content and to consider reading the findings with a group to engage in collective reflection. UCLA Pritzker Center for Strengthening Children and Families, March 2024, page 5.

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What Effect Does the Environment Have on Your Health & How We Can Improve Community Health

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Social engagement and forming healthy attachments are essential to healthy brain development. Here are the services we are providing at each of our locations to further this mission: KVC Kansas KVC Kansas helps over 12,000 children and their families each year. This has an even greater impact on children.