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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! By centralizing critical functions like Accounting and Human Resources, KVC’s local teams can focus on their core competencies such as social work, therapy and inpatient children’s psychiatric treatment.

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5 Reasons Children Bully and How Parents Can Help

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Both children who bully and targets of bullying are at a greater risk for mental and behavioral health issues, including anxiety, depression, substance abuse, sleep difficulties, lower academic achievement and dropping out of school. Words can hurt. Why Do Kids Bully? . The reasons children bully can be difficult to pinpoint.

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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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Hope is a 15-year-old girl who experienced depression and tried to end her life in multiple ways. 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.

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CBT for Kids: How You Can Improve the Mental Health of Younger Clients

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It is used to treat a wide range of issues including health-related distress, family and school problems, and numerous psychiatric disorders. As noted above, anxiety disorders are the most common psychiatric conditions among youth, affecting between 15-20% of children and adolescents.

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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. And what, exactly, does that mean? Later she changed the age to 5.)

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20 Success Stories: Mental Health, Family Reunification, Foster Care and Adoption Support Transform Lives

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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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Strategies for Effective Suicide Loss Postvention

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Psychiatric issues, including depression, anxiety, posttraumatic stress disorder, and problematic substance use are more common with suicide losses compared to other types of losses. Were already experiencing psychiatric issues, such as depression, or had suicidal thoughts and behaviors prior to the death.