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Joplin Agencies Work Together to Assist Families

This month we’re highlighting a group of Children’s Trust Fund prevention partners from Joplin, Missouri. These three agencies have spent the past six months, since a devastating tornado destroyed a third of their city, working together to provide...

Rose Brooks Center Gives Families New Hope

The Rose Brooks Center (RBC) is a domestic violence shelter in Kansas City.  A child abuse and neglect prevention grant from the Children’s Trust Fund (CTF) helps to support RBC’s Family Enrichment Program.  This program helps mothers gain the knowledge and...

Circle of Parents Provides Support for Caregivers

St. Joseph Youth Alliance offers a variety of programs aimed at helping strengthen the community’s families in northwest Missouri. For the past eight years, the St. Joseph Youth Alliance has been offering a program called Circle of Parents©. The program provides...

Building Tools For Young Parents

The Lafayette County Health Department recently completed it’s fifth year of  grant funding from the Missouri Children’s Trust Fund. In that time CTF provided $80,949. In an effort to help young families, the department developed the Building Tools for...

Parenting Skills for Dads

To be the best parent you can be, it’s sometimes necessary to ask for assistance.  That’s why the Fathers’ Support Center, St. Louis (FSC) is an excellent resource for young dads and their families.   Over the last five years the Children’s...