- About
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.
- Impact
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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Virtual Motivational Interviewing Training (2 CEUS)
October 13, 2021 @ 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Have you ever experienced working with a client who is difficult to engage in treatment? If so, KVC West Virginia is offering a virtual training discussing how to utilize the evidenced-based practice of Motivational Interviewing.
In this two-hour training, Erin Keltner, MSW, LICSW, KVC West Virginia’s Vice President of Clinical Services, will provide information on the theoretical foundations of Motivational Interviewing as well as detailed training in assessment, treatment planning, clinical intervention skills, and team building. Participants will learn the scientific and conceptual basis for orienting treatment around these interview techniques. Participants will receive two CEUs for their participation.
Course Objectives:
- Understand the history and theoretical underpinnings of using Motivational Interviewing
- Learn and understand the Stages of Change
- Define the key elements of Motivational Interviewing and use of these elements in practice
- Identify and develop strategies that help to maintain change
Access the Trainings
Click the buttons below to access the virtual WebEx training meeting. We highly recommend you access this training via a Google Chrome or Firefox browser.
Cost:
- $0 (Free) – DHHR Employees
- $40 ($20 per credit hour x 2) – Industry professionals, teachers, healthcare agency employees, etc.
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.