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CURRENT ISSUE
Issue 4 - July, 2022
BREAKING NEWS
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
GRANTS
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
EXPLORE PAST ISSUES
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...
Governor Parson Approves State Budget with $20 million Allocated for Future CTF Facilities and Infrastructure Grants
The Children’s Trust Fund (CTF) is thrilled to announce that the Missouri General Assembly has allocated $20 million in funds to CTF for Fiscal Year 2023 (July 1, 2022-June 30, 2023) to support facilities and infrastructure projects for community-based organizations working to prevent and alleviate child abuse and neglect…
Two Questions for Darell Missey, Director of Missouri Children’s Division
A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to sit down with the Honorable Judge Darrell Missey, who took on the role of Director at Missouri Children’s Division earlier this year.
As you might expect, Judge Missey has been busy. While most of our discussion centered around shared challenges and the ways our two organizations work together to ensure the safety and wellbeing of Missouri’s children, I had my team follow up with a few important questions…
Coming Soon to Missouri: “Awareness to Action” Policy & Procedure Training
“Missouri KidsFirst (MKF) and the Metropolitan Organization to Counter Sexual Assault (MOCSA) have teamed up to work toward the goal of creating safer environments that center child wellbeing through policy and procedure development and review.
The collaborators were fortunate to find an existing training, Awareness to Action…
“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…