Uncategorized | 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.

Select Page

Missouri’s Child Care Crisis

by Bryanna Barber | Oct 23, 2024 | Uncategorized

In December 2023, Missouri’s Department of Elementary and Secondary Education’s (DESE’s) Office of Childhood acquired the Child Care Subsidy Payment Program from the Missouri Department of Social Services to help ease a department already overloaded...

Home for Good: Kelsey’s Story

by Bryanna Barber | Sep 19, 2024 | Uncategorized

One family’s inspiring journey through trauma, addiction and child welfare On January 5, 2017, Kelsey Daffron and David Ludeman were arrested in Columbia, MO for endangering the lives of their 2-year-old and 8-month-old children. The story was quickly sensationalized...

CTF Hiring Public Relations Specialist

by Lori Libbert | Jun 1, 2022 | Uncategorized

The Children’s Trust Fund of Missouri is seeking applications for a Public Relations Specialist. This position will be responsible for leading CTF’s external communications and promoting the mission and work of CTF. Primary responsibilities will be managing CTF’s...

30th Anniversary, A Look Back

by Paula | Oct 31, 2013 | Uncategorized

Dr. Sue Stepleton, Director, The Policy Forum at Brown School – Washington University in St. Louis was one the Children’s Trust Fund’s first board members. Dr. Stepleton looks back fondly on that time and how much has been accomplished since. We...

It’s Time to Register for the Missouri Conference on Child Abuse & Neglect Prevention

by Paula | Mar 6, 2013 | Uncategorized

With only one month remaining, this is the time to register for Missouri’s Child Abuse & Neglect Prevention Conference. Please join CTF and other community, national and statewide prevention advocates and practitioners as we “kick off” April as Child Abuse...

License Plates Focus on Prevention

by Paula | Mar 31, 2010 | News, Uncategorized

Check out these other colorful prevent child abuse license plates from around the country on the Darkness2light blog. Yes, Missouri’s license plate is featured too! Thank you to all who proudly display the Missouri “Prevent Child Abuse” license...