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.
  - - Funded Programs
    - Funding Opportunities
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.

Select Page

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...

CTF Plate Makes A Difference

by Paula | Apr 2, 2010 | News, Programs and Grants

St. Charles County gives back to the community…in a big way. Recently the Community and Children’s Resource Board (CCRB) of St. Charles County awarded more than $20,000 in mini-grants to seven local agencies that prevent child abuse and support families. All...

Joplin to host Prevent-a-thon

by Paula | Apr 2, 2010 | News

In recognition of April, The Alliance of Southwest Missouri, Joplin, is kicking off a two-week Prevent-A-Thon on April 17 with a Hot Rod and Motorcycle Poker Run at Cycle Connection in Joplin. The event will be followed by two weeks of Stewards of Children Training...

Peterson Appointed to CTF Board

by Paula | Mar 31, 2010 | News

CTF welcomes Martina L. Peterson, Kansas City, to the Children’s Trust Fund Board of Directors. Peterson, recently appointed by Governor Jay Nixon, is a family court commissioner in Jackson County; she presides over cases and issues orders involving abuse and...

License Plates Focus on Prevention

by Paula | Mar 31, 2010 | News, Uncategorized

Check out these other colorful prevent child abuse license plates from around the country on the Darkness2light blog. Yes, Missouri’s license plate is featured too! Thank you to all who proudly display the Missouri “Prevent Child Abuse” license...