Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Programs
Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Funding (FY21-25)
The following agencies and programs were awarded Children’s Trust Fund (CTF) Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Grants for Fiscal Years 2021-2025 (July 1, 2020 – June, 30, 2025):
Kids’ Harbor Child Advocacy Center | Child Sexual Abuse Prevention
This project seeks to reduce child sexual abuse prevention within our communities, specifically Camden and Laclede Counties. The program uses a multipronged approach to educate adult community members, provide youth with problem sexual behavior specific therapy, and the Child/Teen Safety Matters curriculum within schools. Through a community collaboration, we’ve added Safe Bars training for area servic establishments. Kids’ Harbor seeks to expand training abilities (Awareness2Action) and build a strong, healthyy, prevention-educated community which is much safer for children.
kidsharbormo.org | Osage Beach, MO
Metropolitan Organization to Counter Sexual Assault (MOCSA) | Multilevel Multidisciplinary Team Model for Child Sexual Abuse Prevention
This project uses three areas of action: (1) policy improvement and consultation, (2) community education and Stewards of Children, and (3) treatment and coordination of service for Youth with Problematic Sexual Behavior (YPSB). Each of these areas of action has activities at all four levels of the social-ecological model of prevention, converging in a testable, comprehensive model for sexual abuse prevention. Work started in the 64127 zip code (exhibiting both high rates and counts of sexual abuse) and is expanding throughout Jackson and Clay Counties in Missouri. Overall, this project incorporates complementary interventions between key community partners, norms change campaigns, Stewards of Children, and effective treatment to stop child sexual abuse in our Missouri communities.
mocsa.org | Kansas City, MO
Prevention Consultants of Missouri | Phelps County Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Collaborative
Ensures the safety and well-being of children in Phelps County. The public health approach includes prevention strategies implemented at both the primary and secondary levels. The progam includes the following strategies: 1) Teach the Child and Teen Safety Matters program with all middle and high school students in the county. 2) Provide evidence-based training to adults to prevent, recognize and react responsibly to incidents of child sexual abuse. 3) Establish and work with a multidisciplinary coalition to understand local conditions, identify needs and develop new strategies to strengthen the child sexual abuse prevention capabilities of the community. 4) A direct mail campaign to raise resident awareness of child sexual abuse prevention.
preventionconsultants.org | Rolla, MO
The Child Advocacy Center of Northeast Missouri | Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) Prevention Program
As experienced and effective providers of school and community- based child sexual abuse prevention education programs, The Child Advocacy Center is using a public health-approach to collaborate with key community partners on layered interventions that address the problem of child sexual abuse in St. Peters, Missouri (63376). These interventions will include 1) working with youth-serving organizations to establish child protection policies or codes of conduct for how adults interact with children; 2) working with adults to provide Stewards of Children training to prevent, recognize and react to child sexual abuse; and 3) working with children to provide evidence-based therapy programming for youth with problematic sexual behavior (PSB).
thechildcenter.com | Wentzville, MO
Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Funding (FY24-27)
The following agencies and programs were awarded Children’s Trust Fund (CTF) Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Grants for Fiscal Years 2024-2027 (July 1, 2023 – June, 30, 2027):
Dunklin County Caring Council | Breaking the Cycle (Bootheel CSA Prevention Initiative)
This program seeks to educate youth and adults working in youth-serving organizations about the importance of developing and maintaining healthy relationships. Using the Safe Dates and Darkeness To Light programs, this initiative will target youth, caregivers and other adults working with children and youth. The program will host and attend professional development workshops, school assemblies, parent nights, and child advocacy events to provide prevention skills and information, and promote awareness about child sexual abuse.
caringcouncil.org | Kennett, MO
Jewish Family Services | St. Louis Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Initiative
This program seeks to provide one additional child abuse prevention specialist to increase the number of middle and high school students receiving in-school prevention education by an additional 8,000 students annually. While the ultimate goal of CAPP is prevention, CAPP presentations also teach children and adolescents who have seen or experienced abuse the importance of reporting the incident to a trusted adult, helping to break the stigma and cylcles of abuse.
jfsstl.org | St. Louis, MO
Missouri Network Against Chld Abuse (MO-NACA) | Activate, Empower, Protect Initiative (Statewide CSA Prevention Initiative)
A statewide initiative to enage communities in child sexual abuse and assault prevention using a multi-strategy, upstream primary prevention approach that empowers systems, organizations, communities and individuals to take action to prevent child sexual abuse and assault from occurring. This initiative aims to prevent abuse through statewide networks that deliver evidence-informed trainings; needed tools and guidance for school-based child sexual abuse prevention training; and statewide empowerment, action and awareness campaigns and resources to prevent child sexual abuse and assault in order to create healthier childhoods and lifetimes for all Missourians.
missourikidsfirst.org | Jefferson City, MO
The Child Advocacy Center of Northeast Missouri, Inc. | Children’s Trust Fund Rural Community Initiative to Prevent Child Sexual Abuse
Program focus is to provide multiple intervention strategies on rural communities where children are more likely to experience child abuse. Grant funding is being used to establish new staff positions to directly engage primary caregivers and adult professionals who work with youth across 10 rural, northeast Missouri counties. Grant funding also provides specialized training to mental health therapists for the treatment of children with Problematic Sexual Behaviors and a subcontractor to enage key youth-serving organizations in our service area.
childadvocacycenter.org | Springfield, MO
The Child Advocacy Center, Inc. (Springfield) | Protecting Children (Springfield CSA Prevention Initiative)
This project is a whole-community approach to preventing child sexual abuse that anchors the responsibility with the adult community and leverages existing structures, including schools, juvenile offices and youth-serving organizations to implement programming that is comprehensive and addresses both perpetration prevention and victimization prevention.
childadvocacycenter.org | Springfield, MO
Resources
Child Sexual Abuse Prevention: The Who, What, Why, and How
CTF Child Sexual Abuse Prevention – Rack Card/Poster and Resources
Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Video
Something We Agree On Website
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