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Strengthening Families Initiative

The Missouri Strengthening Families Initiative (SFI), supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, and the Center for the Study of Social Policy (CSSP), is a cost effective strategy to prevent child abuse and neglect by helping early childhood centers work with...

Governor Blunt Recognizes Child Abuse Prevention Month

Governor Matt Blunt recently declared April as Child Abuse Prevention Month in Missouri during a proclamation ceremony in his Capitol Office.  In addition to the Children’s Trust Fund, he was joined by representatives from the Missouri Department of Social...

April proclaimed Child Abuse Prevention Month

A Proclamation by the President of the United States of America "All Americans share a responsibility to protect our Nation’s children. During National Child Abuse Prevention Month, we renew our commitment to prevent child abuse and neglect and to work to...

Child abuse in southwest Missouri

What is the scope of the child abuse problem in southwest Missouri? What are the actual numbers — and faces — behind the oft-heard statistic that there are more child abuse cases in Greene County than anywhere else in the state? In a special series of...