Report Highlights Work of CTF

The Children’s Trust Fund Annual Report for Fiscal Year (FY) 2016 highlights CTF’s prevention activities, grants, public education campaigns, training and partnerships from July 2015 through June 2016.  During that time, CTF awarded over $1.8 million in prevention funding to support 103 community-based programs providing home visiting, safe crib, crisis nursery, mentoring, parent education, sexual abuse prevention, family support, fatherhood initiatives, integrating the protective factors, public awareness, training and much more. Since its inception in 1983, CTF has awarded nearly $56 million in funding statewide from donations and dedicated fees to strengthen Missouri’s families and prevent child abuse, neglect.  During FY 2016, over 127,000 of Missouri’s children, parents, caregivers, and those who work with families were directly served through CTF’s prevention funds.   Thousands of others benefited from CTF’s public prevention campaigns and free materials.