News | 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.
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.
Resources
- - - Resources
      The Children’s Trust Fund (CTF) develops and provides rack cards, posters, DVDs and other parenting materials that support its donor and public education campaigns.

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Missouri Children’s Trust Fund Awards Nearly $815,000 in New Child Abuse Prevention Grants

by Paula | Dec 10, 2018 | News

The Children’s Trust Fund (CTF) Board of Directors awarded nearly $1.5 million in prevention grants in Fiscal Year 2019 to fifty-six (56) child-serving organizations throughout Missouri. Of the amount, $814,936.50 in new funding was directed to twenty-eight (28)...

Giving Tuesday-December 1, 2020

by Paula | Nov 14, 2018 | Donate, News

#GivingTuesday™ is a movement to create a national day of giving added to the calendar on the Tuesday following Thanksgiving, Black Friday and Cyber Monday. #GivingTuesday is a special call to action and creates a national day of giving around the annual shopping and...

Prevention $ense October 5, 2018

by Paula | Oct 5, 2018 | News, Prevention Sense

INVITATION for BIDS – Positive Community and Social Norms Consultation

by Paula | Oct 5, 2018 | News

The Missouri Children’s Trust Fund (CTF) seeks a consultant to assist CTF Board and staff in developing a comprehensive communications strategy to promote protective cultural norms designed to prevent child maltreatment. BACKGROUND The Children’s Trust Fund (CTF) is...

Prevention $ense September 20, 2018

by Paula | Sep 26, 2018 | News, Prevention Sense

September is Baby Safety Month

by Paula | Sep 19, 2018 | News

When we know better, we do better! September Baby Safety Month is an opportune time to highlight Infant Safe Sleep and encourage EVERYONE to practice the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Guidelines to prevent infant suffocation and strangulation. Together,...