First-hand Insights | 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 marketing-based funding opportunity for Something We Agree On

by Bryanna Barber | Nov 13, 2023 | First-hand Insights, News

Back to Menu The Missouri Children’s Trust Fund (CTF) is pleased to announce the availability of up to $150,000 for Missouri-based partners to develop and implement community-based marketing plans for a childhood sexual abuse prevention and/or corporal punishment...

CTF partners with Managed Care Organizations to provide prenatal care to expecting mothers receiving Missouri Medicaid

by Bryanna Barber | Sep 11, 2023 | First-hand Insights, News

CTF is excited to partner with Healthy Blue and Show Me Healthy Kids to connect pregnant foster youth and women receiving Missouri Medicaid to necessary home visiting services. We believe this can be achieved with a single point of entry to a statewide coordinated...

Sister Anne Francioni and Whole Kids Outreach, Inc.

by Bryanna Barber | Aug 18, 2023 | First-hand Insights, News

Back to Menu HERO HIGHLIGHTS: A conversation with Sister Anne Francioni Traveling the winding, two-lane highways of Southeast, Missouri toward Ellington, you’ll find Whole Kids Outreach: a non-profit that’s tucked so far into the Mark Twain National Forest that...

CTF will release $1.5 million in unobligated funding for Facility Improvements and Infrastructure

by Bryanna Barber | Aug 9, 2023 | First-hand Insights, News

CTF to release $1.5 million in unobligated Facilities Improvement & Infrastructure Funding This year, CTF will be partnering with the Community Foundation of the Ozarks, YouthBridge Community Foundation and the Greater Kansas City Community Foundation to...

CTF, Kids Win Missouri release new blueprint for early childhood in Missouri

by Bryanna Barber | Jun 29, 2023 | First-hand Insights, News

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE A Bold Vision for Missouri’s Early Childhood Landscape CTF, Kids Win Missouri, and our partners in the Early Childhood Steering Committee are thrilled to release this report, which provides a blueprint for the early childhood landscape in...

2023 Legislative Outcomes: Good News for Kids!

by Bryanna Barber | May 16, 2023 | First-hand Insights, News

The 2023 Legislative Session closed last week with numerous budgetary advancements for early childhood education, child care, home visiting & more! 2023 was a historic session for Missouri children, with substantial increases in funding for core early childhood...