News | Children's Trust Fund of Missouri

About CTF
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      The Children’s Trust Fund (CTF) is Missouri’s foundation for child abuse prevention.
Funded Programs
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      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.
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Public Awareness
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      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
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      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
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      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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REQUEST FOR BIDS!

by Alicia | Jul 24, 2018 | Events and Conferences, News

REQUEST FOR BIDS – Policy and systems change advocacy consultation The Missouri Children’s Trust Fund’s is seeking a consultant to assist CTF staff and Board with developing a policy agenda to prevent child abuse and neglect in Missouri. BACKGROUND The...

Missouri KIDS COUNT Data Book

by Paula | Jul 16, 2018 | News

Find out how Missouri’s youngest residents are doing. The 2018 Missouri KIDS COUNT® Data Book provides valuable data related to child Demographics, Economic Well-Being, Family/Community and Education. This information facilitates conversations about general...

Lutheran Family & Children’s Services – Resource Parents – Columbia

by Paula | Jun 27, 2018 | CTF Partners, News

LFCS has been a huge blessing for me and my little family through the good and bad. – Resource Parents Participant On a Thursday evening, a group of nearly fifteen young parents and their children met at a local church for a pizza dinner together and to visit, catch...

Prevention $ense June 18, 2018

by Paula | Jun 22, 2018 | News

Prevention $ense May 30, 2018

by Paula | Jun 22, 2018 | News

CTF Recieves $260,000 Memorial Bequest

by Paula | Jun 7, 2018 | News

The Missouri Children’s Trust Fund (CTF) is grateful to receive a $260,000 memorial gift from the Marigene Smith Brewer Estate. The bequest is the largest single private gift in CTF’s history and will be used to further CTF’s mission to prevent child abuse. “I had the...