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1211 N. 8th St. Kansas City, KS 66101
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As an industry leader in quality behavioral and mental health treatment, our innovative services for youth provide therapeutic and educational skills development.
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Our free resources help you stay informed and educated about mental health, brain development, and childhood trauma as well as how KVC Hospitals is working toward building healthier communities.
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Our philosophy is to provide collaborative, compassionate and effective care through the use of timely, individualized treatment planning.
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Neuroscience-Based Treatment
KVC Hospitals Neuroscience-Based Initiative for Healthy Brain Development
At KVC Hospitals, we focus on ensuring all children have the ability to develop healthy brains. Our programs, treatment, and innovations are built upon strengthening a brain’s architecture through positive interactions. Find out more about the programs we’re developing and the neuroscience-based initiative in the resources below.
Learning Lab
KVC Hospitals uses multiple treatment approaches to help children understand their own brains, actions, and responses to situations. In the Learning Lab, children and teens utilize various activities to strengthen their brains.
Emotion Regulation
The ability to manage our emotions, remain calm and overcome tough situations is often the result of brain development in early childhood. The extent to which our childhood was healthy and supportive — or not — can affect a child or teen’s level of physiological brain development and our ability to handle life’s challenges long into adulthood. In the Learning Lab, Emotion Regulation (ER) drills are often used to help develop skills to better manage emotions.
MakerSpace
The MakerSpace for Social Innovation is an activity for KVC Hospitals employees to create tools and activities that they can use during their work with children and teens in care to help educate, connect and learn about the brain. The tools and activities created are all founded in science around topics like brain architecture, serve and return, toxic stress, executive function, and resilience. Learn more here.
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