This year’s Gala on Fire will take place on Friday, November 18 at the Historic Firestone Building in Kansas City, Mo.

Since 1980, Wayne Sims has grown KVC exponentially from a single home serving at-risk children in Kansas City, Kan. to a national organization serving nearly 60,000 children and families each year across the U.S.

Read the latest stories of how KVC is helping children and families across the U.S.

The number of children in KVC Kansas programs on psychotropic medications is less than 9%, only a fraction of the number that many other foster care programs experience.

Safe & Connected™ allows social workers to spend less time documenting and more time using their gifts and insights to help children and families.

KVC is expanding its neuroscience initiative. That includes developing new hands-on brain development tools for professionals and families and sharing information to influence policymaking.

When fully implemented, MyLink will use iPads to transform care delivered to children in over 1,000 foster families in Kansas, Nebraska, Kentucky and West Virginia.

Throughout the month of March, our KVC teams in four states recognized and celebrated staff who provide exceptional care and support to children and families in need.

The KVC Institute for Health Systems Innovation today released its “Big Idea” campaign describing how public and private agencies and other stakeholders can transform foster care in America.

MyLink is one of the first programs in the country to apply telehealth to a foster care setting and will soon serve more than 1,000 families nationwide.