Prevention Sense | 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.
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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CTF Welcomes New Board Members

by Paula | Dec 4, 2017 | News, Prevention Sense

The Children’s Trust Fund (CTF) welcomes several new members and reappointments to its Board of Directors. “The Governor has reached out to individuals who are committed to children and to the prevention of child abuse or neglect,” said John Heskett, Ed.D, CTF Chair....

CTF Welcomes New Board Members

by Paula | Dec 4, 2017 | News, Prevention Sense

CTF Names New Board Members

by Paula | Nov 15, 2017 | News, Prevention Sense

The Children’s Trust Fund (CTF) welcomes Amy Layman of Springfield and Cherisse Thibaut of Kirkwood to the CTF Board of Directors. Layman is a member of the Board of Directors for the Child Advocacy Center and is a YPO Ozarks Family Officer. She is a dedicated member...

Prevention $ense July 10, 2017

by Paula | Jul 28, 2017 | News, Prevention Sense

Get Your License to Care! You can help strengthen families & prevent child abuse and neglect by proudly displaying the official Children’s Trust Fund (CTF) license plate on your vehicle…you know, the ones with the green handprints. Get yours today! ...

Prevention $ense May 2, 2017

by Paula | May 2, 2017 | News, Prevention Sense

May is National Foster Care Month This year’s National Foster Care Month (NFCM) theme, “Empowering Caregivers, Strengthening Families,” highlights the importance of identifying, developing, and supporting prospective and current foster parents and...

Prevention $ense April 21, 2017

by Paula | Apr 21, 2017 | News, Prevention Sense

National Child Abuse Prevention Month Join us in honoring National Child Abuse Prevention Month 2017. April continues to be about “Building Community, Building Hope,” through community-based efforts to help protect children and youth and strengthen...