CTF Partners | Children's Trust Fund of Missouri

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
- - - Home Visiting
      
      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.
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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CTF Board Awards Prevention Grants

by Paula | Aug 29, 2016 | CTF Partners, News, Programs and Grants

$2 Million Invested in Missouri to Strengthen Families & Prevent Child Abuse & Neglect! The Children’s Trust Fund (CTF) Board of Directors recently awarded over $1.7 million in funding for State Fiscal Year 2017 to support 88 different organizations throughout...

Aiding in the Development of Vital Parenting Skills

by Paula | Mar 30, 2016 | CTF Partners, News

Parenting for Prevention increases the availability of parenting classes and works to reach parents at their cognitive level. The program has been wholey funded by CTF and offered through the YWCA of St. Joseph. Two ten-week sessions are held to provide parents...

Connecting Parents to their Babies with Operation Connect

by Paula | Mar 16, 2016 | CTF Partners, News

The Operation Connect (formerly known as Caregiver Connections) program focuses on parenting education and parent-child attachment using The Incredible Years Parenting Series and Theraplay. This Kansas City-based program is funded in part through a grant from the...

CTF License Plate Partner Grant Application Available

by Paula | Mar 2, 2016 | CTF Partners, News, Programs and Grants

The Children’s Trust Fund (CTF) has released a new application for funding to market the CTF prevent child abuse license plate for Fiscal Year 2017 (July 1, 2016 – June 30, 2017). Since 1997, community organizations throughout Missouri have been promoting the...

Providing Support to At-risk Families with Young Children

by Paula | Mar 1, 2016 | CTF Partners, News, Research

The Healthy Steps for Families program is a collaborative effort between Burrell Behavioral Heath and the Jordan Valley Community Health Center and is based in Greene County. CTF helps fund services to at-risk pregnant women or parents with children ages 0-3. Healthy...

Project Thrive Working to Strengthen Families

by Paula | Feb 17, 2016 | CTF Partners, News

Great Circle’s Project THRIVE is a collaborative, community-based initiative that works toward strengthening families in Adair County and select areas in Macon County who are experiencing high stress and/or other risk factors. Services are free to eligible...