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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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Connecting Parents to their Babies with Operation Connect

by Paula | Mar 16, 2016 | CTF Partners, News

The Operation Connect (formerly known as Caregiver Connections) program focuses on parenting education and parent-child attachment using The Incredible Years Parenting Series and Theraplay. This Kansas City-based program is funded in part through a grant from the...

CTF Welcomes New Board Members

by Paula | Mar 14, 2016 | News

The Children’s Trust Fund (CTF) welcomes Sharon E. Rohrbach, St. Louis, and James D. Anderst, M.D., Kansas City, to the CTF Board of Directors. Both were appointed by Governor Jay Nixon on March 2, 2016 and will begin serving immediately. Rohrbach is a Registered...

Prevention $ense, March 7, 2016

by Paula | Mar 8, 2016 | News, Prevention Sense

CTF License Plate Partner Application Available CTF is seeking community partners to support the CTF license plate program. Since 1997, community organizations throughout Missouri have been promoting the popular specialty plate, depicting the green hand prints of a...

CTF Discretionary Funds

by Paula | Mar 8, 2016 | News, Programs and Grants

The Children’s Trust Fund (CTF) will be accepting grant applications for discretionary funding programs for state Fiscal Year 2017 (July 1, 2016 – June 30, 2017) on or after April 1, 2016. Discretionary funding or ‘mini grants’ are designed to be...

CTF License Plate Partner Grant Application Available

by Paula | Mar 2, 2016 | CTF Partners, News, Programs and Grants

The Children’s Trust Fund (CTF) has released a new application for funding to market the CTF prevent child abuse license plate for Fiscal Year 2017 (July 1, 2016 – June 30, 2017). Since 1997, community organizations throughout Missouri have been promoting the...

Providing Support to At-risk Families with Young Children

by Paula | Mar 1, 2016 | CTF Partners, News, Research

The Healthy Steps for Families program is a collaborative effort between Burrell Behavioral Heath and the Jordan Valley Community Health Center and is based in Greene County. CTF helps fund services to at-risk pregnant women or parents with children ages 0-3. Healthy...