Podcast | Children's Trust Fund of Missouri

About CTF
- - - About CTF
      The Children’s Trust Fund (CTF) is Missouri’s foundation for child abuse prevention.
Funded Programs
- - - Funded Programs
      As Missouri’s foundation for child abuse prevention, the Children’s Trust Fund’s (CTF’s) primary responsibility is to provide grants to community-based agencies and organizations throughout the state that focus on strengthening families and preventing child maltreatment.
Public Awareness
- - - Public Awareness
      As part of its mission, the Children’s Trust Fund (CTF) engages in public education campaigns to heighten the awareness and importance of child abuse and neglect prevention.
Home Visiting
- - - Home Visiting
      
      CTF believes in the preventative outcomes consistently demonstrated by high-quality, evidence-based home visiting services. Such services have consistently resulted in positive effects on children’s health, safety, and educational outcomes.
  - - Statewide Home Visiting Outcomes Rate Card
    - MO Home Visiting Referral System
How To Help
- - - How To Help
      The human and economic costs of child abuse are substantial,
      but most of all, the act of child abuse is the ultimate injustice and should not be tolerated. With your commitment to prevention, together we can make a difference for our children…our future.

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CTF Conference Offers Many Opportunities

by Paula | Feb 17, 2009 | News, Podcast

CTF’s 2009 Statewide Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Conference – “A Generation of Prevention” will be held March 18-20, 2009 at the Capitol Plaza Hotel in Jefferson City. A variety of topics will be covered by outstanding national and local speakers and trainers....

Early Brain Development in Children

by Paula | Feb 10, 2009 | News, Podcast

Positive and negative experiences can have a dramatic effect on the developing brain. Dr. Linda Chamberlain is an epidemiologist specializing in family violence and their health effects, and the effects of childhood exposure to violence on children,...

CTF Podcast – Stress & the Holidays

by Paula | Dec 15, 2008 | News, Podcast

In this second installment of the Children's Trust Fund podcast, CTF Board Chair Dr. Regina Staves takes a look at parenting and stress around the holidays and provides helpful tips for parents to keep in mind throughout the year. Dr. Staves is a mental...

Children’s Trust Fund Podcast

by Paula | Dec 15, 2008 | Podcast

We’ll tell you more about the Children’s Trust Fund Podcast, but to get you started, here’s a short video from the smart kids at CommonCraft that explains just what podcasting is. If you can’t view the video, here’s the YouTube link. And...

Children’s Trust Fund Podcast

by Paula | Dec 8, 2008 | News, Podcast

We’re pleased to tell you about something new here at the Children’s Trust Fund. We’re podcasting! What’s a podcast? Well, think of it as sort of a radio program that’s not on the radio. We’re feeling our way along with this new...