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Overview
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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Overview
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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Overview
KVC West Virginia continues to make a positive difference in the lives of hundreds of West Virginia children and families.
Spotlight on Providers
In this section, we profile KVC staff and partners who are making a difference.
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
Parenting and Mental Health eBooks & Videos
Find helpful guides, assessments and videos on topics like parenting, mental health, ways to help children in crisis and more.
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Ethics Training (2 CEUs)
July 14, 2021 @ 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
What are ethics?
Oxford Languages defines ethics as:
- “Moral principles that govern a person’s or group’s behavior”
- “The moral correctness of specified conduct”
- “A set of moral principles, especially ones relating to or affirming a specified group, field, or form of conduct”
Join us for a virtual “Ethics” training where participants will learn about the Code of Ethics as explained by the National Association of Social Workers; the importance of professional and personal boundaries in the workplace; why documentation is important; learn to distinguish between violation vs. crossing; and will address social media’s slippery slope. Participants will receive two CEUs for their participation.
In this two-hour training, Erin Keltner, MSW, LICSW, KVC West Virginia’s Vice President of Clinical Services, will discuss:
The Code of Ethics as explained by the National Association of Social Workers (NASW)- The importance of professional and personal boundaries in the workplace
- Why documentation is important
- Learn to distinguish between violation vs. crossing
- Addressing social media’s slippery slope
Register:
We have two training times available on Wednesday, July 14:
- 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
- 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM
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About the Presenter
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.