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
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      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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Staves Reappointed to Board

by Paula | Aug 17, 2009 | News

Governor Jay Nixon has reappointed Regina Staves, Ph.D., Kansas City, to the Children's Trust Fund (CTF) Board of Directors. Dr. Staves is an assistant professor and director of graduate psychology at Avila University. She is also a psychologist in private practice, specializing in attachment, anxiety, psychological trauma, family systems, abuse and neglect, childhood behavior problems and ethics. Dr. Staves currently serves as CTF Board Chair, a position she has held since October 2007. Her second term will end July 2012.

The CTF Board comprises twenty-one members, thirteen of whom are public members appointed by the Governor and confirmed by the Senate, two members from the House of Representatives appointed by the Speaker of the House, and two from the Missouri Senate appointed by the President Pro Tem. Four other public members are appointed by the Governor that do not require the advice and consent of the Senate. Public members may serve up to two consecutive 3-year terms.

[Original Release – August 12, 2009]