Explore In-Home Family Support

KVC works with families in their homes to solve problems, reduce stress and build safety and stability.

This service may help families who are experiencing:

• Parenting stress
• Conflict at home
• School concerns
• Financial strain
• Safety worries
• Trouble finding community resources
• Stress that is affecting daily family life

KVC’s caring teams help parents and caregivers strengthen relationships, meet their children’s needs and keep children safely at home whenever possible.

Available in: Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Nebraska and West Virginia

Explore Outpatient Mental Health Treatment

KVC provides therapy and mental health support for children and teens while they continue living at home and taking part in school, family and community life.

This service may help children and teens who are experiencing:

• Big emotions
• Behavior changes
• Anxiety
• Depression
• Trauma or stress
• Relationship challenges
• Trouble coping at home, school or with peers

KVC helps children, teens and families understand what they are experiencing, build healthy coping skills and work toward healing and stability.

Available in: Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Nebraska and West Virginia

Explore Children’s Mental Health Hospitals

KVC provides short-term inpatient mental health treatment for children and teens who need immediate support in a safe, structured setting.

This service may help when a child or teen is:

• In a mental health crisis
• At risk of harming themselves or others
• Having intense emotional distress
• Experiencing serious psychiatric symptoms
• Needing 24/7 care to stay safe and begin healing

KVC’s goal is to help children and teens stabilize, receive compassionate treatment and prepare for their next step in care.

Camber Mental Health, part of the KVC Health Systems family of nonprofits, operates three inpatient children’s mental health hospitals in Kansas, including locations in Hays, Olathe and Wichita. Camber is also opening a new children’s mental health hospital in Webster Groves in the St. Louis, Missouri area in late 2026.

Explore Children’s Residential Mental Health Treatment

KVC provides residential mental health treatment for children and teens who need more support than outpatient therapy can provide, but do not need inpatient hospital care.

This service may help children and teens who are experiencing:

• Ongoing emotional or behavioral challenges
• Mental health needs that affect home, school or relationships
• Trauma-related stress
• Trouble staying stable with outpatient support alone
• A need for more structure, therapy and daily support

Residential treatment gives children and teens a safe, supportive place to heal over a longer period of time. Services may include therapy, skill-building, education support and daily care.

Available in: Kansas and Missouri

Explore Youth Education Services

KVC provides education services that help children and teens learn, grow and build confidence at school.

This service may help children and teens who are experiencing:

• Mental health needs that affect school
• Learning differences
• Trauma or major life changes
• Foster care experiences
• Trouble staying engaged in school
• Barriers to academic success

Through therapeutic schools, academic support programs and college-readiness opportunities, KVC helps students strengthen their skills, feel supported in the classroom and work toward brighter futures.

Available in: Missouri, Nebraska and West Virginia

Explore Foster Care

After a court rules that a child or teen cannot safely remain at home, foster care provides temporary care while their family receives support and works toward safe reunification whenever possible.

KVC supports children and teens in foster care, as well as their parents and families, throughout this process. Our teams work with families, foster parents, relatives, non-related kinship caregivers, case teams and community partners to support safety, healing, family connection and reunification whenever safely possible.

Foster care may be needed when:

• A child or teen cannot safely remain at home due to abuse or neglect
• A family is working through serious challenges
• Parents or caregivers need time and support to build a safe home environment
• A child or teen needs a safe place to live after the death or incarceration of a parent or caregiver

KVC helps families by:

• Supporting parents and families as they work toward safe reunification
• Helping children and teens stay connected to family when appropriate
• Coordinating with case teams, relatives, kinship caregivers and foster parents
• Connecting families with services and resources

Available in: Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and West Virginia

Become a Foster Parent

Foster parents play an important role in caring for children and teens while their families work toward safely being together again whenever possible. They provide a safe, stable and caring home during a difficult time in a child’s life.

Foster parents do not need to be perfect. They need to be safe, caring and flexible adults who can provide patience, structure, encouragement and support to children and teens and their families.

Foster parents can help by:

• Providing a safe and caring home
• Helping children and teens feel supported
• Offering patience, structure and encouragement
• Supporting family connections when appropriate
• Working with KVC and the child’s case team
• Helping children and teens navigate change, grief and uncertainty

KVC recruits, trains and supports relative, kinship and foster parents. Our teams help foster parents feel prepared, supported and connected throughout the process.

Available in: Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and West Virginia

Explore Treatment Foster Care

Treatment foster care provides extra support for children and teens in foster care who have higher emotional, behavioral or mental health needs.

This service may help children and teens who are experiencing:

• Trauma
• Multiple moves
• Mental health challenges
• Intense emotions
• Difficulty trusting adults
• Behaviors that need extra patience and support

Treatment foster parents can help by:

• Providing a calm and structured home
• Offering patience and consistency
• Supporting the child’s treatment goals
• Helping youth build trust and stability
• Working closely with KVC and the child’s care team

Treatment-level foster parents receive specialized training and support from KVC. They help children and teens receive therapeutic care while living in a family setting.

KVC also supports parents and families working toward safe reunification whenever possible.

Available in: Kansas and Missouri

Explore Adoption from Foster Care

When children and teens in foster care cannot safely reunify with their families, adoption can provide a permanent, loving family.

Since 2005, KVC has helped match more than 6,000 children in foster care with adoptive families.

Children and teens waiting for adoption need families who can offer:

• Love
• Safety
• Patience
• Stability
• Lifelong connection
• Support through life’s ups and downs

Adoptive parents come from many backgrounds. What matters most is the ability to provide a safe, supportive home and a lasting commitment to a child or teen’s future.

KVC helps prospective adoptive parents learn about adoption from foster care, prepare for the process and receive support along the way.

Available in: Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and West Virginia

Explore State Agency Partnerships

KVC partners with state child welfare agencies to provide foster care case management and family support services.

KVC helps state agencies:

• Promote child safety
• Strengthen families
• Support permanency
• Improve outcomes for children, teens and families
• Provide direct services and case management

Explore Consulting and Best Practice Sharing

KVC shares proven practices, tools and models with child welfare and behavioral healthcare organizations in the U.S. and internationally.

KVC helps organizations:

• Strengthen services
• Improve systems of care
• Support children and families more effectively
• Learn from proven child welfare and behavioral healthcare practices