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CTF Board Awards Grants for Fiscal Year 2012

The Children’s Trust Fund (CTF) Board of Directors recently approved and awarded 70 grants and over $1.6 million in funding for Fiscal Year 2012 to 65 community-based organizations throughout Missouri for the prevention of child abuse and neglect. The funded...

Circle of Parents Provides Support for Caregivers

St. Joseph Youth Alliance offers a variety of programs aimed at helping strengthen the community’s families in northwest Missouri. For the past eight years, the St. Joseph Youth Alliance has been offering a program called Circle of Parents©. The program provides...

CTF Seeks Applicants for Home Visitation Services

The Children’s Trust Fund (CTF) has released an application for funding to provide home visitation services in St. Louis city and surrounding counties. Home visiting for parents and their children, beginning prenatal or at birth, has been shown through extensive...

Family Fun at the State Fair

For the third year, Missouri Children’s Trust Fund is sponsoring the Family Fun Center at the Missouri State Fair, August 11-21, 2011.  The Family Fun Center features hands-on interactive play for kids age 2-10.  The air conditioned facility also has a baby...

Building Tools For Young Parents

The Lafayette County Health Department recently completed it’s fifth year of  grant funding from the Missouri Children’s Trust Fund. In that time CTF provided $80,949. In an effort to help young families, the department developed the Building Tools for...

Look Before You Lock

Kids and Cars, a national nonprofit child safety organization, is promoting a new program to educate parents about how to protect their babies from being left alone in a vehicle. It’s called “Look Before You Lock.” Informational packets about the...