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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Promoting Parent Success through Home Visitation

by Paula | Dec 14, 2007 | News, Tools & Resources

Childhood success begins with parenting at its best. This new practice/policy brief, Home Visiting: Strengthening Families by Promoting Parenting Success from the Family Strengthening Policy Center, reports that home visiting is a prevention model that can have...

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...

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...

Safety Tips for Home Visitors in Meth Environments

by Paula | Oct 17, 2007 | News, Tools & Resources

In response to those who attended the workshop on Methamphetamine (Meth) during the Children’s Trust Fund’s (CTF’s) child abuse and neglect prevention conference in March 2007, CTF has developed an electronic flyer, A Toxic Combination: Children and...

Safe At Home Program Provides Vital Service to Victims

by Paula | Oct 11, 2007 | News, Tools & Resources

The Safe at Home Address Confidentiality Program is a new service administered by the Missouri Secretary of State’s Office that provides survivors of domestic violence, rape, sexual assault, or stalking, who have relocated or are about to relocate, with an...

Children’s Hospitals at the Frontlines in the Prevention of Child Abuse

by Paula | Sep 10, 2007 | News, Tools & Resources

The National Association of Children’s Hospitals (NACHRI) has made the prevention and treatment of child abuse and neglect a priority. Learn how children’s hospitals from around the country are combating child maltreatment through proactive efforts...