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.

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Missouri Prevention Partners (MPP)

by Paula | Nov 12, 2009 | News, Uncategorized

Background and HistoryMissouri Prevention Partners (MPP) is a collaboration of statewide public and private nonprofit organizations that all have an interest in and statewide perspective of child abuse and its prevention. The group began organizing in 2006, and...

Therapy Animals Help Kids

by Paula | Oct 9, 2009 | News, Tools & Resources

The American Humane Association (AHA) recently launched an innovative program based upon the belief that therapy animals can help individuals who have suffered physical or emotional trauma. The Therapy Animals Supporting Kids (TASK)™ Program, co-created by...

ACE Study Links Childhood Trauma

by Paula | Oct 9, 2009 | News, Research

Research released from the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has found that people who experienced considerable trauma during their childhood died 20 years prematurely and those suffering childhood trauma have double the risk for early death compared...