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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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Child abuse in southwest Missouri

by Paula | Apr 4, 2007 | News, Uncategorized

What is the scope of the child abuse problem in southwest Missouri? What are the actual numbers — and faces — behind the oft-heard statistic that there are more child abuse cases in Greene County than anywhere else in the state? In a special series of...

Crisis nursery can keep kids safe

by Paula | Mar 9, 2007 | News, Uncategorized

The Junior League of Springfield is expected to open the doors of Isabel’s House, the Crisis Nursery of the Ozarks, by the end of May. Winter storms delayed construction for the $1.6 million facility being built in the 2700 block of West Bennett Street. Dana...

Blunt, Hanaway launch campaign against Internet predators

by Paula | Mar 7, 2007 | News, Uncategorized

Gov. Matt Blunt has joined U.S. Attorney Catherine Hanaway in the official launch of the "I Know Better" (INOBTR) campaign to help stop Internet predators from targeting children. INOBTR is a new not-for-profit campaign that will provide Missourians with...

The youngest, and most vulnerable

by Paula | Feb 1, 2007 | News, Uncategorized

Children younger than a year old are the ones most often found to be physically abused, neglected and killed by abuse in Missouri, according to the most recent numbers reported by the Department of Social Services. Missouri’s Child Abuse and Neglect annual...

Cape County children faring worse

by Paula | Jan 26, 2007 | News, Uncategorized

Cape Girardeau County’s children are faring worse than they did in 2001, according to the latest Missouri Kids Count report, released Thursday by Citizens for Missouri’s Children. The number of Cape Girardeau County children receiving free or reduced price...