Programs and Grants | 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 Announces Funding Available For Home Visitation Programs

by Paula | Aug 29, 2007 | News, Programs and Grants

The Children’s Trust Fund of Missouri (CTF), in conjunction with the Missouri Department of Social Services, requests proposals from qualified vendors to develop and provide comprehensive prevention home visiting services by a registered nurse to high risk parents...

Blunt Announces Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Grants

by Paula | Jul 10, 2007 | News, Programs and Grants

Governor Matt Blunt announced today that the Children’s Trust Fund (CTF) Board of Directors approved and awarded over $1.5 million for Fiscal Year 2008 to 58 community-based child abuse prevention grantees. Located throughout Missouri, the organizations and...

CTF Discretionary Grant Program

by Paula | May 22, 2007 | News, Programs and Grants

Each year the Children’s Trust Fund (CTF) allocates a certain portion of its program budget to fund discretionary projects. Discretionary grant funding is designed to be responsive to low cost prevention projects or needs that individual communities or community...

Invest in Kids Working Group

by Paula | Feb 1, 2007 | News, Programs and Grants

The Invest in Kids Working Group was created to examine and document the economic benefits of investments in young children and explore policies to finance expansion of such services. Working group members are leading experts in economics, business, advocacy and...

WIC: Improving health of MO women, infants and children

by Paula | Feb 1, 2007 | News, Programs and Grants

Every month, more than 130,000 Missourians participate in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children, commonly known as WIC. The program provides nutrition information and food assistance to pregnant women, new mothers, infants and...

Eight Missouri childcare facilities chosen for national program

by Paula | Jan 12, 2007 | News, Programs and Grants

The Department of Social Services (DSS) has announced that eight state early childhood facilities have been selected as pilot sites for the national Strengthening Families Initiative (SFI). Missouri is one of only seven states selected by the Center for the...