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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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April is Child Abuse Prevention Month in Missouri

by Paula | Apr 1, 2013 | Events and Conferences, News

April is Child Abuse Prevention Month and Friday, April 19 is Go Blue Day for Missouri’s kids. On that day, thousands of Missourians will wear blue, the official color of prevention, to show their support for children. Many other community events and activities are...

April is Child Abuse Prevention Month

by Paula | Mar 27, 2012 | Events and Conferences, News, Tools & Resources

April is Child Abuse Prevention Month, and Friday, April 13 is Go Blue Day for Missouri’s Kids. On that day, thousands of Missourians will wear blue, the official color of prevention, to show their support for children. Many other community events and...

Go Blue Day Honors Missouri’s Kids

by Paula | Apr 9, 2010 | Events and Conferences, News

Go Blue Day is Friday, April 16. Please join us by wearing blue to show your support for Missouri’s kids and the importance of preventing child abuse and neglect. April serves as a reminder that we each have a responsibility to keep our children safe now and...

MCOH to Host Oral Health Summit

by Paula | Sep 21, 2009 | Events and Conferences, News

The Missouri Coalition for Oral Health (MCOH) will host the 2009 Oral Health Summit, Friday, November 13, 2009 at the Holiday Inn Select Center, Columbia. The Summit, Integrating Dental & Medical Services: Healthy Mouths, Healthy Lives, will focus...

Conference to Bring Hope

by Paula | Sep 21, 2009 | Events and Conferences, News

Breaking the Cycle of Abuse is the main theme of the 2nd annual Community Hope Conference to be held October 22 and 23, 2009 on the campus of Missouri Southern State University (MSSU), Joplin. Sponsored by The Alliance of Southwest Missouri, in conjunction with...

MO KidsFirst to Host Regional Training

by Paula | Sep 16, 2009 | Events and Conferences, News

Missouri KidsFirst will be conducting six regional child sexual abuse prevention workshops this fall entitled Stewards of Children: Adults Resolving Child Sexual Abuse. Designed by Darkness to Light primarily for organizations that serve children and youth,...