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What Does KVC Stand For?

KVC

Building Expertise in Serving Children & Families While KVC started as a small group home for boys, we’ve since learned from research that residential group home care is not the ideal living situation for most children. Instead, “Children grow best in families.”

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KVC Health Systems Launches KVC Missouri and Names New President

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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. Casey Foundation, Child Trends and Dr. Glenn Saxe of New York University.

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Chapin Hall prepares to whitewash abuse in foster care

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Two ways to measure rates of abuse in foster care. Guess which method Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago is using for a big new stud y they proudly announced last week. (If Accept family police agency figures at face value, or go out and actually interview a representative sample of former foster youth.

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Funding boost for councils not enough to address ‘disastrous’ state of social care, warn sector bodies

Community Care

More on adult social care pressures. Seven in eight commissioners paying below ‘minimum rate for home care’. CQC joins call for care staff pay boost to prevent ‘tsunami of unmet need’. Experienced care staff earn 6p an hour more than newcomers. 7m to improve support for adopted children and their families.

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

CO4Kids

Jacque Frenier The director of Morgan County DHS since 2016, Jacque Frenier started with the department shortly after graduating from Colorado State University and has been with the department for 48 years. During her time with the county, Angela has worked with kids in out-of-home care as an ongoing caseworker and as an on-call caseworker.