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Issue 4 - July, 2022
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Governor Parson Approves State Budget with $20 million Allocated for Future CTF Facilities and Infrastructure GrantsPUBLIC EDUCATION
Audiences Tune In to CTF's "Something We Agree On" CampaignCTF Collaborates to Advance Missouri Safe Sleep Education
Coming Soon to Missouri: "Awareness to Action" Policy & Procedure Training
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CTF Recommends $341,911 to be Awarded for Immediate NeedsHERO HIGHLIGHTS
Two Questions for Darrell Missey, Director of Missouri Children's DivisionPOLICY
"The State of Home Visiting," by Joe Gallant, Kids Win MissouriNext Steps: CTF Expects Statewide "Outcomes Rate Card" to be Ready as soon as 2023
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Issue 3 - March, 2022
2022 CTF Legislative Priorities, CTF Celebrates Launch of "Something We Agree On," Hero Highlights: Rich Hennicke, Get to know the CTF Staff, and more...Issue 2 - October, 2021
Emily Interviews Gov. Parson on the Office of Childhood, CTF Develops Outcomes Rate Card for Home Visiting, The Impact of HBs 557 and 432, and more...Issue 1 - June, 2021
5 Things to know about the new Office of Childhood, Child Sexual Abuse Prevention grants at work, CTF aims to change Social Norms, and more...Join CTF's "First To Know" List!
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“The State of Home Visiting,” by Joe Gallant, Kids Win Missouri
Missouri boasts a decades-long history of providing home visiting services to its families. The newly-formed Office of Childhood (OOC) within the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) supports and administers home visiting services, and there is a presence of at least one home visiting program, or model, in every part of the state. The existence of the Office of Childhood and its leadership has been praised by stakeholders from across the state. Prior to the creation of the OOC, the broader home visiting system suffered from…
CTF Recommends $341,911 to be Awarded for Immediate Needs
A review panel consisting of 2 CTF Board members, 2 CTF Staff, and 1 representative from Missouri Children’s Division scored CTF “Immediate Needs” funding applications on various criteria, with the most heavily-weighted questions relating to…
Audiences Tune In to CTF’s “Something We Agree On” Campaign
CTF’s Staff and Board would like to say “thank you” for the feedback and response you’ve provided so far on the launch of our Positive Community Norms campaign: “Something We Agree On.”
Our primary focus during the first 3 months of the campaign has been…
Next Steps: CTF Expects Statewide “Outcomes Rate Card” to be Ready as soon as 2023
Over its 38-year history, the Missouri Children’s Trust Fund (CTF) has seen the transformative impact of home visiting in improving infant, child, and maternal health. Through its grantee partners, CTF has served over 3,800 families, and continuously looks for new ways to increase impact and scale.
That’s why CTF launched a pay for outcomes initiative with its home visiting grantees in July 2021 by developing an outcomes rate card (ORC)…
CTF Collaborates to Advance Missouri Safe Sleep Education
Public Education update: In 2018 CTF entered into collaboration with agencies and organizations across the state with the shared goal of REDUCING INFANT SLEEP RELATED DEATHS BY 20% BY THE END OF 2022…