Events and Conferences | 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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National Missing Children’s Day – May 25

by Paula | May 21, 2008 | Events and Conferences, News

In 1983 President Ronald Reagan proclaimed May 25 National Missing Children’s Day. Since that time this day has served as an annual reminder for the nation to renew efforts to reunite missing children with their families and make child protection a national priority....

Sen. Bond Celebrates CTF’s 25th Anniversary

by Paula | Apr 17, 2008 | Events and Conferences, News

U.S. Senator Christopher ‘Kit’ Bond recently congratulated the Missouri Children’s Trust Fund (CTF) for twenty-five years of service and leadership in helping Missouri’s children and families and preventing child abuse and neglect. A news...

April 18 Designated as ‘Go Blue Day’

by Paula | Apr 15, 2008 | Events and Conferences, News

April has been designated as Child Abuse Neglect Prevention Month both nationally and in Missouri. To recognize this special month, Friday, April 18, has been designated as Go Blue Day. Missouri KidsFirst and the Children’s Trust Fund, along with...

April Child Abuse & Neglect Prevention Month

by Paula | Mar 14, 2008 | Events and Conferences, News

It is the responsibility of each individual to prevent child abuse and neglect. As a result, April is annually designated as Child Abuse Prevention Month. This year’s theme, Strong Families-Safe Kids, recognizes that the most important thing we can do to prevent...

National Prevention Conference in May

by Paula | Mar 3, 2008 | Events and Conferences, News

A national-level conference devoted to the prevention of child abuse and neglect will be held May 19-22, 2008, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The conference entitled "Connecting the Dots – Turning Knowledge Into Action" and hosted by Prevent Child...

Child Advocacy Day Scheduled

by Paula | Dec 12, 2007 | Events and Conferences, News

Mark you calendars to attend the 26th Child Advocacy Day scheduled for Tuesday, January 29, 2008 in Jefferson City. The annual event, coordinated by the Missouri Alliance for Children, Youth and Families and the Missouri School-Age Community Coalition, begins at...