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      The Children’s Trust Fund (CTF) is Missouri’s foundation for child abuse prevention.
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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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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...

Prevention $ense, February 24, 2016

by Paula | Feb 25, 2016 | News, Prevention Sense

Forum: Gun Violence & Childhood Trauma Monday, March 7, 2016 2pm – 5pm Hillman Hall, Clark-Fox Forum, Danforth Campus Washington University, St. Louis Keynote speaker James Garabino, author and founding director of the Center for the Human Rights of Children at...

Project Thrive Working to Strengthen Families

by Paula | Feb 17, 2016 | CTF Partners, News

Great Circle’s Project THRIVE is a collaborative, community-based initiative that works toward strengthening families in Adair County and select areas in Macon County who are experiencing high stress and/or other risk factors. Services are free to eligible...

Annual Report Highlights Work of CTF

by Paula | Feb 9, 2016 | News

The Children’s Trust Fund (CTF) Annual Report for Fiscal Year 2015 highlights CTF’s prevention activities, grants and public education campaigns from July 2014 through June 2015. During that time, CTF awarded over $2.55 million in prevention funding to support 90...

Prevention $ense February 8, 2016

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

Make Your Mark Against Child Abuse A child’s experiences have a direct link to their health and well-being in adulthood. Investing in children early in their life is key to helping them have a successful future. A gift through Missouri’s Tax Check-off Program makes a...