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Overview
KVC strengthens families using wraparound services so children can remain with their own families and in their own communities when safely possible. We also provide foster care, reunification support, adoption, outpatient mental health therapy, in-home family services and educational support.
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Through KVC, you can strengthen families, prevent child abuse and neglect, and help create a bright future where every person is safe and connected to a strong family and a healthy community. Please join us today! Learn More
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Our free resources help you stay informed and educated about foster care, adoption, mental health and childhood trauma as well as how KVC West Virginia is working toward building healthier communities.
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About KVC West Virginia
KVC West Virginia is a private, nonprofit organization that serves over 3,000 children, teens and adults each year. Our team of caring professionals provides home- and community-based services that strengthen families and prevent foster care, outpatient mental health therapy, foster care, foster parent recruitment and support, adoption, and youth academic and mentorship programs.
We envision a world in which every person is safe and connected to a strong family and a healthy community.
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Adoptive Family Training & Support
KVC adoptive parents go through the same training process as foster parents. KVC provides adoptive parent training in conjunction with West Virginia Child Placing Regulations and Joint Commission requirements. We provide the following trainings as part of becoming an adoptive parent:
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NTDC, or the National Training and Development Curriculum, is a modern trauma-informed training program that replaces the former PRIDE model in West Virginia. This 10-week curriculum helps prospective foster and adoptive parents build essential caregiving skills, understand trauma, and prepare to support children and teens with confidence.
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MANDT or crisis de-escalation. This course teaches potential foster parents about safe and effective ways to diffuse potential crises.
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CPR/First Aid. KVC provides American Red Cross classes for adult, child and infant CPR and First Aid.
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Universal Precautions
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Healthy Sexual Development in Children
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Pregnancy Prevention and STD information
KVC also provides additional resources and training about becoming an adoptive parent. KVC provides monthly CEU classes once families are certified. Each adoptive parent must have 12 hours of CEUs each year to remain an adoptive parent. New adoptive parents must have 15 hours of CEUs within the first year of certification. Six of these CEUs must be face-to-face. KVC provides useful and informative CEU opportunities that are relevant to caring for adoptive children.
All KVC foster and adoptive parents receive support through Permanency Case Managers, who visit the children in the home at least twice monthly. Home Finders are also good support persons for the adoptive families. The Home Finders visit the homes at least quarterly. KVC also offers 24-hour crisis support through their on-call system.
KVC is also in the process of starting a Foster Parent Advisory Board to provide internal support for other foster/adoptive parents. This group will also work as client and foster/adoptive parent advocates in the community as well as to organize community KVC events.