KVC

DECEMBER 8, 2021

But when she came to KVC Hospitals, she received comprehensive medical and psychiatric treatment. A Moving Family Reunification Story After Foster Care. Ashley and Sean’s substance use challenges led to their children being removed from their home and put in foster care. Read it now. Read it now. Read it now.

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KVC

MARCH 1, 2021

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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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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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 31, 2022

People who have had their children taken away by a discriminatory child welfare system that targets Black neighborhoods for family separation do not have reproductive freedom. story about the overuse of psychiatric medication on kids. ? What makes this significant is the groups that signed on to this brief.

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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. Its about Colorados love affair with the worst form of care for children group homes and institutions. They absolutely do belong in foster care or, far better, in their own homes.

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Child Welfare Monitor

JULY 22, 2024

.” It does not define RTF’s, but the term clearly refers to facilities that provide behavioral health services in a residential context to children with funding from programs under SFC jurisdiction, mainly Medicaid and foster care funds under Title IV-E of the Social Security Act.

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KVC

MAY 24, 2022

These stories came from youth and families we’ve served, foster or adoptive families who support our mission, and KVC team members who provide in-home family therapy and support, mental health treatment, foster care, adoption, inpatient children’s psychiatric treatment or other life-changing services.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 5, 2022

It’s also an acknowledgment of racial disparities: Black children account for 13% of Pennsylvania youth, but 35% of those in foster care and two-thirds of those in state juvenile-justice placements … But the story goes on to explain that, even with the improvements, Philadelphia still is an outlier when it comes to tearing apart families.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 8, 2022

The city can make smarter choices that will reduce the number of kids placed in foster care, which will reduce strain on the system — and save kids from having to sleep in conference rooms. A classic example of that adage is Philadelphia’s approach to the welfare of its children.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 17, 2024

It's been nearly 50 years since the New York Daily News series "Big Money, Little Victims" exposed the power and the greed of private "child welfare" agencies, and abuse in their foster homes and institutions. But in the city, these agencies still are the foster care system. He called it “doublethink.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 14, 2022

Yet it almost never is challenged by journalists reporting on child welfare. The same is true in cases alleging – and that’s the operative word – child abuse and neglect. Children can be held in foster care for months before a court ever decides if the child was, in fact, abused or neglected.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2022

One of the things that happens to children when they’re institutionalized is they are often doped up on potent, sometimes dangerous psychiatric medication. The New York Times recently sought to reassure us that, when it comes to foster children, that problem had been curbed. Unfortunately, the document is only advisory. ?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 6, 2023

In Los Angeles County, WitnessLA begins a multi-part in-depth series on the failure of the child welfare surveillance state with a look at battered mothers afraid to seek help because of the entirely justified fear that the family police might take away their children. Now check out the new twist, as reported by WBBM-TV in Chicago.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 20, 2025

We all know about the predictive analytics child welfare algorithm in Pittsburgh the one that independent investigators have found to be biased and the Justice Department reportedly is investigating. UCLA Blueprint looks at the rebel child among the 900+ Court-Appointed Special Advocates programs in the United States.

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KVC

MAY 20, 2025

Workers from the state child welfare agency started visiting her house, but her father didnt cooperate. He insisted that Danya needed to behave and that he could discipline his child however he wanted. Disruption: Danya Enters Foster Care After the attempt, Danya spent a month in an inpatient psychiatric hospital for teens.

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KVC

OCTOBER 22, 2024

They provide family strengthening services , foster care , family reunification services , foster family recruitment and support , adoption , aftercare , outpatient therapy and more. KVC West Virginia KVC West Virginia has been around for more than 20 years, serving children, individuals and families in need of support.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 2, 2025

Referring generally to the shortage of options, one expert told the Monitor, in the newspapers words: The states reliance on institutional care is a self-inflicted crisis. The racism that permeates child welfare doesnt stop at the northern border. But it sure seems like a sin.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2024

● At long last, the United States has officially apologized for 150 years of trying to use “child welfare” and children’s “best interests” to eradicate Native America. For decades, as the massive American child welfare surveillance state grew, the response to anyone who objected was: “We have to do this, children are dying!

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