Dangers exist during the cold winter months where children are at risk for hypothermia, or body heat loss.

The holidays are a time when many people return to the familiar and comfortable surroundings of their parent’s home. But what happens to those young people who do not have a place to go home to?

More than 70 percent of Singapore’s children in government care are in orphanages. Yet research shows that children grow better in families. For that reason, Singapore recently turned to KVC to learn how to transition to community-based care.

Federal administrators are determined to end youth homelessness by 2020 and KVC is leading a broadly-supported initiative to create a new national model for this vulnerable population.

KVC Health Systems has launched a national #NeverStopCaring initiative to bring awareness to the national crisis of youth aging out of foster care and propose the creation of a specialized career college.

If the proposal comes to fruition, the ensuing Sugar Grove College could become a new national model for how to help a vulnerable population while saving and creating jobs.

New legislation prevents children and youth from becoming victims of sex trafficking, protects youth who are already victims, and offers new hope of permanent families for youth transitioning out of foster care.

KVC Health Systems presented its 44th Hero Award to the Washington, D.C. Child and Family Services Agency led by Director Brenda Donald at its 2014 Annual Meeting on October 16. A partnership with KVC has helped the agency dramatically improve outcomes for children and families.

KVC’s consulting to Washington, D.C.’s child welfare agency resulted in 47% fewer children removed from their homes each month and children spending significantly less time in foster care.

Danielle Bartelli and Jenny Kutz talk about how KVC is changing the way children in foster care are matched with loving, foster and adoptive families.