KVC

APRIL 18, 2024

KVC’s Positive Impact Grows Nationally During the 1980-90s, KVC grew to represent one of the broadest child welfare and behavioral healthcare continuums of care in the nation. This made it possible for KVC to meet the needs of any child and family, extending all the way to inpatient children’s mental health hospitals when needed.

Child Welfare 98

Child Welfare Healthcare Welfare Mental Health 98

Relias

MARCH 17, 2023

Each year, the Joint Commission issues a list of top national patient safety goals for healthcare settings, including hospitals, nursing care centers, behavioral health care and human services, ambulatory healthcare, home care, and more. Improve staff communication. Use medicines safely.

Patient Safety 52

Patient Safety Communication Healthcare Hospitals 52

Community Care

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

In my extended family, we also have someone who spent about 10 years in an assessment and treatment unit [a mental health hospital for people with learning disabilities or autism] and had experienced being in a seclusion room. It doesn’t have to be a lifetime of day care or home care or peers following them around all the time.

Disability 71

Disability Social Worker Mental Health Hospitals 71

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.

Child Welfare 52

Child Welfare Foster Care Adoption Mental Health 52

KVC

MARCH 3, 2021

These agencies investigate reports of abuse and neglect, and work closely with the court system to decide whether or not to remove a child from their home. While social workers do provide their professional perspective, ultimately a judge decides whether the child needs out-of-home care.

Social Worker 52

Social Worker Child Welfare Mental Health Diversity 52

Community Care

OCTOBER 27, 2021

More on adult social care pressures. Seven in eight commissioners paying below ‘minimum rate for home care’. CQC joins call for care staff pay boost to prevent ‘tsunami of unmet need’. Experienced care staff earn 6p an hour more than newcomers. an hour in the national living wage (NLW) from April 2022. .”

Government 49

Government Mental Health Social Worker University 49

The Guardian

JANUARY 27, 2025

Previously an assistant librarian at the University of Portsmouth, she was now struggling to hold a book. In the two-bedroom house Rosy shared with her teenage daughter and cat she was living out of her front room: a hospital-style bed and commode squashed in next to the television.

Hospice 22

Hospice Hospitals Healthcare Home Care 22