KVC

OCTOBER 22, 2024

They provide family strengthening services , foster care , family reunification services , foster family recruitment and support , adoption , aftercare , outpatient therapy and more. KVC West Virginia KVC West Virginia has been around for more than 20 years, serving children, individuals and families in need of support.

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KVC

APRIL 18, 2024

.” So, in addition to helping states safely prevent the need for children to enter foster care 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.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 8, 2022

The city can make smarter choices that will reduce the number of kids placed in foster care, which will reduce strain on the system — and save kids from having to sleep in conference rooms. We’ve all heard the adage that goes: “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.”

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KVC

OCTOBER 11, 2021

have continued helping people with critical in-home family support, mental health treatment, foster care, 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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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 27, 2022

She is the state’s “Child Advocate,” and before that ran a prestigious private agency specializing in adoption and foster care. million – and the state would save more than that in reducing needless investigations and foster care. Maria Mossaides is a woman of enormous power and privilege. What can we conclude from this?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 5, 2022

It’s also an acknowledgment of racial disparities: Black children account for 13% of Pennsylvania youth, but 35% of those in foster care and two-thirds of those in state juvenile-justice placements … But the story goes on to explain that, even with the improvements, Philadelphia still is an outlier when it comes to tearing apart families.

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KVC

MARCH 1, 2021

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.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 17, 2024

Here’s a perfect example: Our private foster care 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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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

In 2014, the Mercury News in Northern California investigated the misuse and overuse of potent psychiatric medication on foster youth. The Marshall Project also partnered with the Oklahoma nonprofit news site The Frontier for this story: Oklahoma is prosecuting pregnant women for using medical marijuana.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 31, 2022

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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University of Connecticut

MAY 8, 2023

My field placement is with Wellmore Behavioral Health in Waterbury, where I am an Intensive In-home Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Services clinician. In this role, I work in the homes and communities of families to provide therapy services to young people at risk of hospitalization or being placed out of the home for psychiatric reasons.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 14, 2022

Children can be held in foster care for months before a court ever decides if the child was, in fact, abused or neglected. The story in question is about the fact that foster youth are trapped in psychiatric hospitals and juvenile jails because the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services has no place to put them.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 6, 2023

It involves a nine-year-old girl trapped in a psychiatric hospital only because the state family police agency had no place to put her. Though not mentioned in the story, this is because a foster-care panic in Illinois has led to a sharp increase in needless removals.) Two months later he was dead.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2022

One of the things that happens to children when they’re institutionalized is they are often doped up on potent, sometimes dangerous psychiatric medication. The New York Times recently sought to reassure us that, when it comes to foster children, that problem had been curbed. (They got a little help from the U.S.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2024

While they are not the torture chambers of old, Lee Enterprises newspapers report that at least two of them allegedly are the scene of other forms of abuse – sexual assault and the misuse and overuse of psychiatric medication. ● For those who want to use ICWA to defend Native American children, there are new online resources.

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