NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 17, 2025

When NCCPR released a comprehensive report on Colorado child welfare in September 2023, we included a section called Tapeworm in the System. Even more restrictions, more onerous treatment for any child the assessment tool thinks might run away? And what, exactly, does that mean?

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KVC

APRIL 18, 2024

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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KVC

MARCH 3, 2021

child welfare services are provided or managed by the government agency in each state. These agencies investigate reports of abuse and neglect, and work closely with the court system to decide whether or not to remove a child from their home. Social work is a broad, diverse field where the work extends across many settings.

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KVC

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The bully’s attempts to antagonize another child or person can come from a variety of motives. Bullying Led My Daughter to Depression & Psychiatric Hospitalization: How She Achieved Mental Health Wellness [VIDEO]. Why Do Kids Bully? . The reasons children bully can be difficult to pinpoint.

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KVC

DECEMBER 8, 2021

But when she came to KVC Hospitals, she received comprehensive medical and psychiatric treatment. KVC Hospitals Kansas City is commemorating 30 years of providing compassionate psychiatric treatment to youth to help them heal. Hope is a 15-year-old girl who experienced depression and tried to end her life in multiple ways. Read it now.

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KVC

MARCH 1, 2021

Bringing Innovation & Child Welfare Best Practices. Stephenson and KVC have been on the forefront of child welfare best practices including creating trauma-informed care, reducing residential care of children, and helping children and teens grow up in families through evidence-based family strengthening and mental health services.

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KVC

OCTOBER 11, 2021

have continued helping people with critical in-home family support, mental health treatment, foster care, adoption, inpatient children’s psychiatric treatment and more. KVC also thanks and honors its essential frontline workers who courageously continued providing child welfare and mental health services to those in need.

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