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Family Fun at the State Fair

For the third year, Missouri Children’s Trust Fund is sponsoring the Family Fun Center at the Missouri State Fair, August 11-21, 2011.  The Family Fun Center features hands-on interactive play for kids age 2-10.  The air conditioned facility also has a baby...

Building Tools For Young Parents

The Lafayette County Health Department recently completed it’s fifth year of  grant funding from the Missouri Children’s Trust Fund. In that time CTF provided $80,949. In an effort to help young families, the department developed the Building Tools for...

Look Before You Lock

Kids and Cars, a national nonprofit child safety organization, is promoting a new program to educate parents about how to protect their babies from being left alone in a vehicle. It’s called “Look Before You Lock.” Informational packets about the...

2010 Missouri Kids Count Data Released

The Partnership For Children (PFC), Kansas City, recently released the 18th Annual KIDS COUNT in Missouri Data Book documenting the status of  children in all 114 Missouri counties and the City of St. Louis.  The annual publication is a collaborative project of PFC,...

CTF Board Member Takes Pediatrics to Rural Missouri

Dr. Robert Harris is a member of the Children’s Trust Fund (CTF) Board of Directors.  He’s also a pediatrician at Tiger Pediatrics in Columbia, MO.  During a CTF Board meeting last October, Dr. Harris heard Whole Kids Outreach (WKO) Executive Director...