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It will if some lawmakers attacking kinship fostercare get their way A few months ago on this blog, I posed a hypothetical question to some folks in Oregon. Suppose they took really good care of your child. Kinship placements also are safer, and kin are less likely to dope up foster children on potent psychiatric medication.
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.” So, in addition to helping states safely prevent the need for children to enter fostercare in the first place, we’ve helped states recruit and train thousands of relatives and foster families, ensuring children live in the context of a close-knit family.
have continued helping people with critical in-home family support, mental health treatment, fostercare, adoption, inpatient children’s psychiatric treatment and more. During this time, KVC Health Systems’ nearly 1,500 team members across the U.S.
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story about the overuse of psychiatric medication on kids. ? In The New York Times even social problems can be gentrified. I have a blog post about how they just did the “oh-my-God-it’s-spreading-to-the-white-middle-class!!”
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.” 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 fostercare funds under Title IV-E of the Social Security Act.
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, fostercare, adoption, inpatient children’s psychiatric treatment or other life-changing services.
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Here’s a perfect example: Our private fostercare agencies are so wonderful, so essential to the public good that we absolutely must get a taxpayer bailout – so we can pay damages to the huge numbers of children abused for decades in our foster homes and institutions! He called it “doublethink.” This is an industry-wide problem."
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