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 Collaborates to Advance Missouri Safe Sleep Education

by Kory | Jul 8, 2022 | First-hand Insights

Back to Menu Public Education Update: In 2018 CTF entered into collaboration with agencies and organizations across the state with the shared goal of REDUCING INFANT SLEEP RELATED DEATHS BY 20% BY THE END OF 2022. Despite COVID-related shutdowns and setbacks, CTF and...

2022 CTF Legislative Priorities

by Kory | Mar 9, 2022 | First-hand Insights

In the just-released video above, members of the Board and CTF Staff expand on the fundamental needs CTF seeks to address in Missouri and the approach that our team takes to set its policy and funding priorities. In December, 2021, The Board of Directors adopted the...

Hero Highlights Interview #1: Rich Hennicke

by Kory | Mar 9, 2022 | First-hand Insights

Interview date: November, 2021 Last year, in the first issue of First-Hand Insights, we asked you to nominate people you would consider “Heroes” in the field of child abuse and neglect prevention. This interview is the first in our series to be...

CTF Announces New Public Education Resources: Safe Sleep, Abusive Head Trauma, and Child Sexual Abuse

by Kory | Mar 9, 2022 | First-hand Insights

Back to Menu Public Education update: Use the links below to access three new vital resources for immediate use in your community-based work! CTF Presents Countdown to Calm: Preventing Abusive Head Trauma, a joint effort of Children’s Trust Fund, DHSS,...

Get to Know the CTF Staff: Jeni Sommerfeld, Tara Goins, and Nicole Dunmire

by Kory | Mar 9, 2022 | First-hand Insights

Back to Menu An update from Emily Over the past year, CTF has added some amazing people to our full-time staff. Today, I’d like to take the opportunity to tell you more about the three newest faces on the CTF team, Jeni Sommerfeld, Tara Goins, and Nicole...

CTF Celebrates Launch of “Something We Agree On”

by Kory | Mar 9, 2022 | First-hand Insights

Back to Menu Public Education update: Our Something We Agree On Campaign is live now at somethingweagreeon.org! This campaign is CTF’s latest educational and awareness initiative that aims to bring perceived and actual norms related to child well-being into alignment,...