KVC BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE KENTUCKY INC

Behavioral Health Care KVC Behavioral HealthCare Kentucky, Inc., accredited by The Joint Commission, is a recognized leader in the field of behavioral health care and child welfare interventions. KVC Kentucky Behavioral HealthCare's (KVC) philosophy that Children Grow Best In Families is demonstrated by successful outcomes across our intensive in-home behavioral health and substance use treatment services, KSTEP, and Family Preservation Programs-programming that serve to divert children and adolescents from out-of-home placements and high level care placements in institutions. KVC's diversion outcomes preserve families and control costs. The Behavioral Health Services and Substance Use Treatment Programs are designed to provide services for children with complex behavioral health and substance abuse problems. The Behavioral Health Services also provide outpatient services for adults with behavioral health and substance use treatment needs as well. Our Family Strengthening services including KSTEP, Family Preservation and EMBARK provide intensive community-based interventions. Without these intensive, community-based therapeutic services, these children would remain at high-risk for placement in hospitals or other psychiatric institutions, long term residential treatment, and/or out of home-care (foster care). Empirical research indicates that in-home interventions are the most effective treatment modalities for safely keeping at-risk families together. Interventions are provided in the home-the location where long-term change must occur. Professional staff use evidence-based practices such as Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), Motivational Interviewing (MI), Child Adult Relationship Enhancement (CARE) Skills, Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Managing & Adapting Practice (MAP), Solution Based Casework(SBC) and Trauma Systems Therapy (TST). KVC Kentucky has been awarded a contract with the Department for Community Based Services to pilot MST as a child-welfare prevention services as part of Kentucky's Family First Services Prevention Act State Plan. This project is focused on families with youth who are 12 to 17 years old, at risk of out-of-home placement due to antisocial or delinquent behaviors and/or youth involved with the juvenile justice system. As a pilot, this is a somewhat small program (4 clinicians and 1 supervisor) but the state is conducting a multi-year study on the feasibility and cost-effectiveness of the program to determine long-term sustainability. Approximately 22,000 unique individuals were strengthened through KVC's services (BHS, AODE, Family Preservation, EMBARK, KSTEP and Jefferson Referral and Support Services combined) in FY25. Successful outcomes are made possible across all programs because KVC consistently invests in its workforce by providing intensive supervision, training, professional development and wellness programming.