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New York Times does the “oh-my-God-it’s-spreading-to-the-white-middle-class!!” story about overuse of psychiatric meds on kids

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

These drugs, generally intended for short-term use, are sometimes prescribed for years, even though they can have severe side effects — including psychotic episodes, suicidal behavior, weight gain and interference with reproductive development … Moreover, many psychiatric drugs commonly prescribed to adolescents are not approved for people under 18.

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

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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. KVC Hospitals – Children’s Psychiatric Treatment. KVC West Virginia. KVC Foundation.

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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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KVC Health Systems and Emporia State University Launch Data Analytics Research to Benefit Children in Foster Care

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KVC Health Systems’ largest subsidiary, KVC Kansas , has been a foster care case management provider on behalf of the Kansas Department for Children and Families since 1996. In this case, the data has been de-identified and will only be analyzed for children who are no longer in foster care. Learn more at www.kvc.org.

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A disappointing report from the Senate Finance Committee

Child Welfare Monitor

.” 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 foster care funds under Title IV-E of the Social Security Act.

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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. A Moving Family Reunification Story After Foster Care. Ashley and Sean’s substance use challenges led to their children being removed from their home and put in foster care. Read it now. Read it now. Read it now.

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Will truthiness triumph in Kansas?

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

It will if some lawmakers attacking kinship foster care 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.