Children's Trust Fund of Missouri | Missouri's Foundation for Child Abuse Prevention

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.
  - - Funded Programs
    - Funding Opportunities
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.
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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LATEST NEWS

CTF announces availability of Rural Health Transformation funding for home visiting

26 Jun 2026

Request for Proposals Available Through August 23, 2026! The Missouri Children's Trust Fund (CTF) is pleased to announce the total availability of $588,000 annually to support agencies...

CTF and KU release Safe Sleep Grant Program Evaluation Report

18 Feb 2026

The CTF Safe Sleep Grant Program Evaluation was conducted in collaboration and on behalf of the Missouri Children’s Trust Fund (CTF) by the University of Kansas School of Social...

CTF releases Annual Report and State Plan Letter

31 Dec 2025

CTF is excited to present you with our Fiscal Year 2025 Annual Report, with Fiscal Year 2026 Grant Overview, and our Fiscal Year 2026 State Plan Letter. Fiscal Year 2025 was a...

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