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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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Virtual Training: Eating Disorders and Their Treatment – 2 CEUs
January 11, 2023 @ 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Eating disorders are serious but treatable mental and physical conditions that relate to persistent eating behaviors that negatively impact health, emotions and the ability to function in important areas of life. They affect people of all genders, ages, races, ethnicities, sexual orientations, body shapes, and weights. National surveys estimate that 20 million women and 10 million men in America will have an eating disorder at some point in their lives. Eating disorders can be fatal but with treatment, people can make a full recovery.
To educate our community about eating disorders and their treatment options, KVC is hosting a virtual training designed specifically for our partners in the child welfare and behavioral healthcare industries. Participants will receive 2 CEUs*.
In this training, Erin Keltner, MSW, LICSW, KVC West Virginia’s Vice President of Clinical Services, will help participants:
- Learn about types of eating disorders
- Understand symptoms and how they present
- Review effects of co-morbidity with other mental health conditions
- Dispel myths about eating disorders and treatment
- Discover treatment options and modalities
*CEUs are valid for individuals in West Virginia who have a social work license or are licensed professional counselors (LPC).
Register
We have two training times available on Wednesday, January 11:
- 10AM – 12PM
- 3-5PM
Registration is closed.
About the presenter
Erin Keltner, MSW, LICSW
Erin Keltner started with Croney and Clark, Inc. (now KVC Kentucky) as a practicum student in August 2004. Since then, Ms. Keltner has worked as a case manager and clinician in the Intensive In-Home Services and IMPACT Plus programs, was the Director of IMPACT Plus and then the Director of Development, Training, and Quality Assurance. Ms. Keltner also assisted KVC Kentucky in becoming accredited by The Joint Commission in November 2010. Ms. Keltner started working in West Virginia in 2011 and is currently acting as the Director of Permanency in addition to her Vice President duties.
Ms. Keltner graduated with a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Transylvania University in 2001 and received her master’s degree in social work from the University of Kentucky in 2005. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in the state of Kentucky and a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker in West Virginia.