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KVC West Virginia is a private, nonprofit organization dedicated to strengthening families and preventing child abuse and neglect. Our team of caring experts delivers a range of essential services, including in-home family support, foster care, adoption, in-home mental health therapy, and youth educational support – all to fulfill our mission of enriching and enhancing the lives of children and families.
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KVC strengthens families using wraparound services so children can remain with their own families and in their own communities. We also provide foster care, reunification support, adoption, substance use treatment, in-home family services, educational support, and child, family and adult therapy.
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KVC West Virginia continues to make a positive difference in the lives of hundreds of West Virginia children and families.
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Inspirational Families
Each year, we recognize one family as the KVC Resource Parents of the Year.
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How To Become A Foster Parent
Each year, hundreds of local children are removed from their homes due to abuse, neglect or other challenges. These kids and teenagers need the support of a caring foster family.
How To Become An Adoptive Parent
KVC West Virginia helps match children in foster care with loving forever families through adoption. We work exclusively with children that are placed through the Department of Health and Human Resources
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2022 Resource Family Conference
April 8, 2022 - April 9, 2022
Free
Registration is now closed. See you soon!
KVC West Virginia’s Resource Family Conference will take place April 8–9, 2022, at The Resort at Glade Springs in Daniels, WV. This biennial event is a one-of-a-kind training opportunity for KVC foster families caring for children who have experienced abuse, neglect or other family challenges and are temporarily in state custody.
Attendees learn from child and family experts, receive continuing education trainings, and network with other resource families in the area to create an invaluable support network. While parents and caregivers participate in trainings, youth enjoy fun, age-appropriate activities.
What’s a Resource Family?
Resource families include foster parents and families who are caring for children who have experienced abuse, neglect or other family challenges and are temporarily in state custody; adoptive parents; relatives; and the youth KVC serves.
Training Information: ARC Reflections
ARC Reflections (Attachment, Regulation Competency) provides caregivers with tools and hands-on training to help children and teens build healthy attachments with adults, regulate their emotions and behavior, and build strengths and competencies that may have been disrupted by exposure to trauma. The training encourages foster parents and caregivers to be curious and reflective about children in their care and gauge their own reactions and responses. Frequent “check-ins” allow adults to link their levels of energy and emotional states with their ability to be thoughtful, engaged caregivers.
Trainers include: Robin Atkinson, Stephanie Casto, Kristi Ferrell, Patricia Heins, Valerie Nichols, Brittany Sponaugle, Sara Wyer
Conference Schedule
Friday, April 8
- 4:00pm: Registration and room assignments begin
- 4:00 – 8:00pm: Dinner at the Pavilion
- 7:00 – 9:00pm: Outdoor movie & bonfire
Saturday, April 9
- 7:00 – 8:30am: Breakfast in the Main Building
- 8:30 – 8:45am: Transition children to daycare locations
- 9:00am – 12:00pm: Training
- 12:00 – 1:00pm: Lunch
- 1:00 – 4:00pm: Training
- 4:00 – 4:30pm: Awards & Recognition
Donate needed items!
Interested in supporting children and families at the Resource Family Conference? Donate needed items or money to help us make this conference the best it can be! Visit kvcwv.org/donate or contact Kristi Ferrell, Director of Permanency, to see what kind of items we need at (304) 687-3851 or krferrell@kvc.org.