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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Investing in Parents so Children and Youth Succeed

by Paula | Nov 20, 2007 | News, Tools & Resources

The National Human Services Assembly (NHSA) Family Strengthening Policy Center is pleased to announce the release of "The Parenting Imperative: Investing in Parents So Children and Youth Succeed."Parents are one of the most important influences in...

The Amazing Adolescent Brain

by Paula | Nov 19, 2007 | Events and Conferences, News

“The average human brain consists of approximately 3 pounds of jelly-like substance, contains 100 billion neurons, and can make 100 trillion connections…more connections than in all of the world wide web.” This is according to Dr. Linda Chamberlain,...

World Child Abuse Prevention Day

by Paula | Nov 13, 2007 | News

November 19 is World Day for the Prevention of Child Abuse. The World Day, initiated by the Women’s World Summit Foundation (WWSF) in 2000, aims to create a culture of prevention around the world by encouraging governments and community/society organizations to...

Fraternal Order of Eagles Supports CTF

by Paula | Nov 7, 2007 | Events and Conferences, News

Each year the Missouri State Presidents of the Fraternal Order of Eagles help to raise money for a ‘charity of choice’. For 2007-2008, the Eagles chose the Children’s Trust Fund (CTF) based on CTF’s mission and focus on the...

Brochures, Fliers and Ads

by Paula | Oct 26, 2007 | News, Uncategorized

Ad Slicks (1/4 page) Boy_Ad_BW.pdf Boy_Ad_Color.pdf Girl_Ad_BW.pdf Girl_Ad_Color.pdf Fliers (8.5 x 11) Flier_Customizable.pdf Flier.pdf Posters (11 x 17) CTF_Poster_Customizable.pdf CTF_Poster.pdf Brochures (Trifold) TrifoldBrochure_Customizable.pdf...

Child Trends Releases Two New Program Briefs

by Paula | Oct 23, 2007 | News, Tools & Resources

Child Trends, an independendent nonpartisan research center focusing on children and youth, has released two new briefs in its series on fostering the adoption of evidence-based practices in out-of-school time programs. Implementing Evidence-Based Practices: Six...