KVC

APRIL 18, 2024

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. Diverse perspectives are key to our progress. Instead, “Children grow best in families.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 25, 2023

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 You’d also think they could do a little better on diversity: None of the research team or the advisors is Black.

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KVC

MARCH 3, 2021

While social workers do provide their professional perspective, ultimately a judge decides whether the child needs out-of-home care. Social workers then provide services to the family in order to resolve conflicts or disruptions and teach healthy skills so children can safely return home. needs more social workers.

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KVC

MARCH 1, 2021

KVC’s historic first-ever creation of trauma-informed foster care was examined in a five-year study with the Annie E. Casey Foundation, Child Trends and Dr. Glenn Saxe of New York University. For example, KVC helped right-sized congregate care of Kansas children in foster care from 30% in 1996 to just 4% in 2013.

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Social Care

OCTOBER 24, 2023

She proves, once again, why global majority nurses bring unique skills, perspectives, and experiences to the delivery of compassionate care and diverse, representative leadership reflecting our communities and the best of our profession. Social care nursing is not really a key area of healthcare in Nigeria.

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