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.
cacnemo.org | Wentzville, 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