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Media Inquiries – Please Contact:
Christina Santiago
Director of PR & Media Relations
Email: csantiago@kvc.org
Phone: 913-415-1219
KVC Health Systems is a family of private, nonprofit organizations that strengthen families, prevent child abuse and neglect, and help people achieve mental health wellness. Through our broad continuum of care, we are proud to be a national leader in mental health, child welfare, and health and human services transformations.
Today, our team is 2,800 professionals strong across Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Nebraska, West Virginia and beyond. Thanks to our team and supporters across more than 65 locations, KVC positively impacts nearly 85,000 people’s lives every year through in-home family strengthening services, foster care, adoption, mental health treatment, and inpatient children’s psychiatric treatment.
We invite you to use the information on this page as a resource, and we welcome your questions and interview requests to expand the coverage you wish to share with your audiences.
Announcing St. Louis Children’s and KVC Health Systems Youth Mental Health Care – Opening Late 2026
Children are facing unprecedented levels of anxiety and depression. As leaders in children’s mental health and wellness, St. Louis Children’s and KVC Health Systems have partnered to create one of the nation’s most innovative and transformative youth mental health and wellness campuses. The partnership includes a 77-bed acute care hospital and outpatient programs.
Located on the KVC Missouri Children’s Mental Wellness Campus conveniently located in Webster Groves, Missouri, the peaceful environment and broad continuum of care allow children and families to access the appropriate level of treatment throughout their healing experience.
At St. Louis Children’s and KVC, children and teens are cared for by specially trained, pediatric mental health experts. Inpatient and residential care is operated by KVC’s inpatient treatment team, Camber Mental Health. Outpatient services are operated by KVC Missouri. Inpatient and outpatient care teams collaborate with WashU Medicine physicians, from St. Louis Children’s, who specialize in pediatric and adolescent mental health care.
Learn more at stlouischildrenskvc.org.
Media Fact Sheet
Our caring team members and network of supporters are actively working together across the country, with one voice, to transform the health and wellbeing of children and families nationwide.
Our broad continuum of care means that children can access services from the least intensive, community-based care to the most intensive, children’s mental health treatment.
Learn more about KVC Health Systems and discover how our services enrich and enhance the lives of children and families.
Subject Matter Expertise
We hope you’ll call on KVC Health Systems and our team of subject matter experts to discuss any news of events related to children’s mental health, child welfare, family services and other topics that support youth and families.
We can offer expert commentary on these and other topics:
- Children’s mental health and suicide prevention
- Community care and support
- Foster care
- Foster parenting
- Child and family advocacy
- Childhood trauma and the effects of brain development and mental health
- Emotion regulation and coping skills
- Mental health disorders (depression, anxiety, ADHD, etc.) and their symptoms, warning signs, and how to help a child or adult who is struggling
- Nonprofit fundraising and philanthropy
Media Inquiries – Please Contact:
Christina Santiago
Director of PR & Media Relations
Email: csantiago@kvc.org
Phone: 913-415-1219