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2. KVC Health Systems - Wikipedia

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   KVC Health Systems, Inc. (KVC) is a private, nonprofit child welfare and behavioral healthcare organization. When Kansas became the first U.S. state to privatize its child welfare services in 1996, it selected KVC to be one of the nonprofit service providers. As of 2023, KVC Kansas is the only nonprofit organization that has continually been a ...

3. Foster care in the United States - Wikipedia

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   5+ years (7%) In 2016, there were 437,465 children in foster care in the United States. [14] 48% were in nonrelative foster homes, 26% were in relative foster homes, 9% in institutions, 6% in group homes, 5% on trial home visits (where the child returns home while under state supervision), 4% in preadoptive homes, 2% had run away, and 1% in ...

4. Child protective services - Wikipedia

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   Child protective services ( CPS) is the name of an agency in many U.S. states responsible for providing child protection, which includes responding to reports of child abuse or neglect. Some states use other names, often attempting to reflect more family-centered (as opposed to child-centered) practices, such as department of children and ...

5. Despite Kansas foster care system struggles, same ... - AOL

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   The contractors selected to offer foster care services in Kansas will likely be some of the same ones currently doing the job. Despite Kansas foster care system struggles, same contractors bid to ...

6. Caseworker - Wikipedia

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   Caseworker. In social work, a caseworker is not a social worker but is employed by a government agency, nonprofit organization, or another group to take on the cases of individuals and provide them with advocacy, information and solutions. Also, in political arenas, caseworkers are employed as a type of legislative staffer by legislators to ...

7. Foster care - Wikipedia

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   Foster care is a system in which a minor has been placed into a ward, group home ( residential child care community, treatment center, etc.), or private home of a state- certified caregiver, referred to as a "foster parent", or with a family member approved by the state. The placement of a "foster child" is normally arranged through the ...