Tools & Resources | 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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Prevention Month Packets Available

by Paula | Mar 3, 2008 | News, Tools & Resources

Free copies of Promoting Healthy Families in Your Community: 2008 Resource Packet are available from the Children’s Trust Fund and online at Child Welfare Information Gateway. The packet, made available by the Department of Health and Human Services –...

Missouri Child Fatality Review

by Paula | Jan 28, 2008 | News, Tools & Resources

In 2006, 1,129 children died in Missouri, and of those, 79 children died as a result of child abuse/neglect. These statistics and many others are contained within the report, Preventing Child Deaths in Missouri (pdf), which provides a statistical breakdown of child...

Highway Patrol Launches New Safety Program to Protect Children

by Paula | Jan 14, 2008 | News, Tools & Resources

Fourth graders at Blair Oaks Elementary School in Wardsville were the first students in the state to have ID’s made as part of the Missouri State Highway Patrol’s new safety program. The program provides parents easy access to all of the information...

Pathways to the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect

by Paula | Jan 11, 2008 | News, Tools & Resources

A new resource entitled Pathways to the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect is available through the Pathways Mapping Initiative at Pathways to Outcomes. This site holds a wealth of findings to assist community coalitions, providers of support services, funders, and...

Encyclopedia on Early Childhood Development Available

by Paula | Jan 4, 2008 | News, Tools & Resources

The Encyclopedia on Early Childhood Development produced by the Centre of Excellence for Early Childhood Development is now available as a free online resource. The Encyclopedia, intended primarily for policy-makers, service providers and parents, brings...

NIJ Issues Report on the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children

by Paula | Jan 3, 2008 | News, Tools & Resources

A special report on the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children was recently released by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ). This report explores research into the organization of the commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC), the effects of CSEC...