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Children and teens belong with their own families whenever possible. KVC works to safely reintegrate hundreds of families each year by providing parenting skills training, therapy and other support.
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On any given day, KVC Kansas provides out-of-home care for thousands of youth. Relatives, non-related kin like teachers and neighbors, and foster families are all critical to providing temporary care for these children and teens. See how you can make a difference.
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Through KVC, you can strengthen families, prevent child abuse and neglect, and help create a bright future where every person is safe and connected to a strong family and a healthy community. Please join us today! Learn More
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Our free resources help you stay informed and educated about foster care, child welfare, adoption, mental health and childhood trauma as well as how KVC Kansas is working toward building healthier communities.
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About KVC Kansas
KVC Kansas is a private, nonprofit organization that serves nearly 13,000 children and adults each year. Our team of professionals provides family strengthening and preventative services, foster care case management, family reunification services, foster family recruitment and support, adoption, aftercare, outpatient therapy and more.
We envision a world in which every person is safe and connected to a strong family and a healthy community.
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Families of Faith
More than 400,000 U.S. children are in foster care due to physical or sexual abuse, neglect or other family challenges. These children need the care and love that foster and adoptive families provide.
Local churches and faith communities often have the compassion and dedication it takes to help children and families in need. How is your family of faith being called to help?
There are many ways for faith communities and individual families to help children in foster care:
- Host a presentation on foster care/adoption or a foster parent TIPS-MAPP training for your congregation
- Encourage adults to become foster or adoptive parents
- Host a donation drive for hygiene items, clothing, duffel bags, school supplies or holiday gifts
- Mentor youth age 13-15 as they transition to adulthood
- Provide a family night out for foster families
- Register with the CarePortal and receive emails regarding needs for children in foster care in your area
- Volunteer at a foster family event
- Advocate for youth
- Educate others
KVC will support your faith community’s efforts to help local children. We can provide:
- A short presentation, bulletin inserts and other printed materials highlighting the needs of children in your community
- A list of practical needs of children and foster families for donation drives (clothing, hygiene products, first night bags, gift cards, etc.)
- Certified instructors to train prospective foster and adoptive parents
- Support groups and continuing education for foster and adoptive parents
- Specialized resources for children including in-home family therapy and mental health services
Your faith community can play a critical role in helping these children. By recruiting foster or adoptive families or meeting the practical needs of children and foster families, your faith community can show love to local children in need.
Additionally, families can assist with health spiritual formation in children by giving them an opportunity to be physically, emotionally and socially healthy, on target intellectually and to be morally and spiritually healthy.