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 momentous and hard year for the Children’s Trust Fund. After years of working to build a home visiting system, we began administering the majority of the state’s evidence-based home visiting funding on July 1.
We worked to make this a reality because we believe we are uniquely positioned to take home visiting to a level never seen before in Missouri. Our goal is to have the best home visiting system in the nation. We want to scale home visiting services to a point where we are able to see population impacts on child abuse and neglect, and maternal and child health.
Equally important, we want to honor the agencies that do this work by continuously adapting our processes so that everything we do is rooted in their needs. To put it simply, we want to make it easier for home visiting agencies and home visitors to do their jobs. Our work is in service to these agencies and the families they serve.
We hold ourselves to high standards because our mission requires it. When we do our job well, community-based organizations have what they need to provide high-quality services to vulnerable families. Supporting vulnerable families can change and save the lives of children.
We commit to continuously elevating your work and reach because the children of Missouri deserve nothing less. Thank you for being a part of our team and helping us to support families to raise children in safe, stable and nurturing environments. Imagine what the world will be like if we are able to do this!
