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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

The task force says a consultant should draw up the tool and determine how the information obtained from the tools may be used to adjust a treatment plan for the child or youth while they are in out-of-home care. They absolutely do belong in foster care or, far better, in their own homes.

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What Does KVC Stand For?

KVC

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. We started providing foster care case management services in Kansas in 1996.

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KVC Health Systems Launches KVC Missouri and Names New President

KVC

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. It is called the Foster Care Adoption Resource Services, Training and Consultation (FCARSTC) program.