Tools & Resources | 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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MO Kids Count Releases Annual Data

by Paula | Apr 20, 2017 | News, Tools & Resources

As part of this year’s Child Advocacy Day, Missouri KIDS COUNT® released the annual county rankings of child well-being. The county rankings this year are based on six indicators – poverty, food insecurity, preventable hospitalizations, child asthma ER visits,...

Prevention Resource Guide

by Paula | Mar 17, 2017 | News, Tools & Resources

The 2016/2017 Prevention Resource Guide: Building Community, Building Hope was created primarily to support community-based child abuse prevention professionals who work to prevent child maltreatment and promote well-being. The resource guide is produced annually by...

Preventing Child Deaths in Missouri

by Paula | Feb 6, 2017 | News, Tools & Resources

The Missouri Child Fatality Review Program’s (CFRP) 2015 Annual Report – Preventing Child Deaths in Missouri is now available. The report provides a statistical breakdown of child injuries and deaths both accidental and non-accidental by county and statewide. It also...

PODCAST: Parent Leadership & Support

by Paula | Feb 1, 2017 | News, Podcast, Tools & Resources

February is National Parent Leadership Month in which communities across the country honor and celebrate parents who work to strengthen their families, neighbors and communities. In this podcast (recorded in 2016), Sam Blue, Community Engagement Specialist for Vision...

Child Maltreatment 2015 Report Available

by Paula | Jan 31, 2017 | News, Tools & Resources

Child Maltreatment 2015 is now available from the Administration for Children & Families, Department of Health & Human Services. Based on State-level data from the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS), this 26th edition of the Child...

Register for 2017 CTF Prevention Conference

by Paula | Jan 26, 2017 | Events and Conferences, News, Tools & Resources

Registration is open for the Children’s Trust Fund’s biennial state child abuse/neglect prevention conference March 23 & 24, 2017 Capitol Plaza Hotel in Jefferson City. This year’s conference theme is “Resilience: Everyone, Everywhere”. Please join CTF and other...