KVC Missouri is a nonprofit child placing and behavioral health agency with a long legacy of compassionately serving children and families. It includes KVC Niles in Kansas City which offers day treatment (K-12 school) and psychiatric residential treatment, as well as treatment foster care, foster parent training and other community-based services for families.
At KVC, we want every child and adult to be safe & connected to a strong family and a healthy community. We’re proud to be a leader in innovative, effective and compassionate care.
When a child enter foster care, child welfare agencies immediately seek out relatives or people the child already knows since they deserve to be be in the least restrictive environment with people they are familiar with. Learn more about how the kinship process works.
To help protect you and those close to you from suicide, it’s important to learn the warning signs and how you can help prevent it.
Find out what inspired these foster parents to foster teens with higher needs and how you can get involved, too!
If you’re interested in fostering, choosing the right agency to support you is important. This post shows what to focus on when making this decision.
Wondering who can be a foster parent? Or what does a foster parent do? Read this blog and download our free FAQs resource to answer those questions.
The KC Business Journal honored KVC Missouri President Lindsey Stephenson as one of 25 rising stars through the 2022 NextGen Leaders Awards.
What is foster care? Foster care provides a temporary arrangement for a child when they are not able to live with their biological parents. Learn more.
May is dedicated to raising awareness and support for the more than 400,000 children and youth in the foster care system. Learn how you can help!
After experiencing the loss of his home, pets and his parents’ divorce, this 12-year-old boy needed a caring person to help him process grief.
Jay was a junior struggling in school. But once he transitioned to Niles Prep, a therapeutic alternative school, he got the help to achieve his dream of high school graduation.
