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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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Foster Parent Training: Mandt Relational Skills for PRIDE, Evening Class
March 25, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Training Title: Mandt Relational Skills for PRIDE
Training Date and Time: Thursday, March 25th, 6:00pm – 8:00pm EST
Training Description: In this training, participants will become certified in Mandt relational skills, and will learn de-escalation methods and other relational skills.
The Mandt System is a comprehensive, integrated approach to preventing, de-escalating, and if necessary, intervening when the behavior of an individual poses a threat of harm to themselves and/or others. The focus of the Mandt System is on building healthy relationships between all the stakeholders in human service settings in order to facilitate the development of an organizational culture that provides the emotional, psychological, and physical safety needed in order to teach new behaviors to replace the behaviors that are labeled “challenging.”
The Mandt System integrates knowledge about the neurobiological impact of childhood trauma with the principles of positive behavior support and provides a framework that empowers service providers to do their work in a way that minimizes the use of coercion in behavior change methodologies.
KVC West Virginia offers this virtual course at no cost to non-KVC staff and potential or current KVC foster parents (you!).
Trainer and credentials: Danielle Owens, KVC West Virginia Home Finder
CEUs available: None ($0)
Cost for non-KVC Staff and foster parents: None
For questions, contact: Danielle Owens, daowens@kvc.org or 304-859-4242