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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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MTV Promotes CTF Partner, Synergy Services

by Paula | Aug 31, 2010 | News

CTF Prevention Partner, Synergy Services, Kansas City, is being promoted on MTV. The network’s self-improvement series, “Made,” encourages teens to reach a goal they’ve set for themselves. After her experience becoming a ballroom dancer on...

CTF Partner Uses State Fair to Promote Internet Safety

by Paula | Aug 25, 2010 | CTF Partners, News

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwlXKwtogyI CTF, along with partners Missouri KidsFirst and ParentLink, have been welcoming visitors to the Missouri State Fair’s Family Fun Center. There, they have the opportunity to spread their messages about child abuse...

MoDOT support for Not Even for a Minute

by Paula | Aug 17, 2010 | News

The Missouri Department of Transportation (MODOT) and the Children’s Trust Fund have joined forces to remind parents and caregivers that children should never be left alone in a car – not even for a minute. [News Release – Public Service Announcement] MODOT has...

Richard Easter Award recipient

by Paula | Jun 16, 2010 | News

Ryan Holder, Lieutenant with the Pemiscot County Sheriff’s Department, was the recipient of the Children’s Trust Fund (CTF) 2010 Richard P. Easter Award during a surprise ceremony June 11 at the Pemiscot County Law Enforcement Center in Caruthersville, MO....

CTF Annual Report 2009

by Paula | Apr 12, 2010 | Featured, News

The Children’s Trust Fund (CTF) Annual Report for Fiscal Year 2009 highlights CTF prevention activities, events, grants and public education campaigns from July 2008 through June 2009. During that time, CTF distributed over $2.7 million in prevention funding to...

Go Blue Day Honors Missouri’s Kids

by Paula | Apr 9, 2010 | Events and Conferences, News

Go Blue Day is Friday, April 16. Please join us by wearing blue to show your support for Missouri’s kids and the importance of preventing child abuse and neglect. April serves as a reminder that we each have a responsibility to keep our children safe now and...