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 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,...

RFP Notices for APRA (immediate) and CBCAP (upcoming) Funds

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

Back to Menu ARPA funds update: Children’s Trust Fund will be releasing at least $300,000 in supplemental CBCAP funding, received through the American Rescue Plan, to provide for the immediate needs of current or recent CTF grantees, and the families that they serve,...

Office of Childhood Update: Early Childhood Stakeholder Engagement Report

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

Back to Menu CTF is a trusted leader and partner in the creation of Missouri’s new Office of Childhood. We are pleased to announce the public release of the Early Childhood and Afterschool Stakeholder Engagement Report, conducted in 2021 by a special Steering...

Emily interviews Governor Mike Parson on the new Office of Childhood

by Kory | Sep 28, 2021 | First-hand Insights

“Creating the World We Want…” Recently, I had the opportunity to sit down with Governor Mike Parson and really get his take on Missouri’s new Office of Childhood, its impact on children in our state, and his personal experiences with...

The impact for Missouri’s kids of passing House Bills 557 and 432

by Kory | Sep 28, 2021 | First-hand Insights

Back to Menu Policy update: CTF is pleased to highlight the passage of Missouri H.B. 557 and H.B. 432, both endorsed by CTF and signed by Governor Parson on July 14, 2021. Here are a few key provisions pertaining to CTF’s mission: H.B. 557 – This bill includes...

CTF set to award $4.5 million in American Rescue Plan Act funds

by Kory | Sep 28, 2021 | First-hand Insights

Back to Menu Grant Funding update: CTF has received $4.5 million in supplemental Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention (CBCAP) funding as part of the American Rescue Plan, and is in the process of developing a plan to release these funds. CBCAP funding can be used...