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

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and best practice training and consultation that stretches around the world, KVC’s presence in its home region of Kansas and Missouri has expanded. If you are wondering what mental health and child welfare services KVC provides and in which areas, this guide is for you! KVC West Virginia. KVC Foundation.

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What Does KVC Stand For?

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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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New KVC Thriving Magazine: Find Out Why KVC Is a Great Place to Work and Read New Success Stories

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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 Health Systems Launches KVC Missouri and Names New President

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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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Colorado task force’s solution to stop children from running from residential treatment: Fence ‘em in & lock ‘em up!

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

When NCCPR released a comprehensive report on Colorado child welfare in September 2023, we included a section called Tapeworm in the System. The report makes no mention of the fact that, in other child welfare contexts, such tools have an ugly history of bias. They were in psychiatric centers or jails. And then what?

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My Short Stay in a Mental Health Hospital

Beautiful Voyager

I was definitely going to a psychiatric hospital, particularly since this was a weekend and my regular outpatient care team wasn’t available. Part 2: Orientation I’d been in a psychiatric hospital before, almost a year ago to the day. Who wanted a social media and marketing consultant who’d spent time in a mental hospital?

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Call for Contributions: Help Us Expand the Community-Engaged Learning Toolkit

Teaching & Learning in Social Work

Melanie Sage, PhD, LCSW, owns Sage Training and Consulting, where she trains agencies and their staff to incorporate evidence-based practices in social services, including trauma-informed motivational interviewing, technology, and other best practices. Writing Tips Avoid jargon. Use active voice to make your writing more engaging and direct.