Home Visiting

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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Home visiting mitigates Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES) by increasing family and child resilience and empowering parents to raise healthy, strong children in the face of adversity.
— Expanding and Enhancing Home Visiting in Missouri (March 2019)

What is it? Home Visiting is a prevention strategy that connects trained health, social services and child development professionals with new and expected parents to provide education on parenting and child development, build social support and facilitate connections to community services.

Home Visiting:
• Improves maternal and child health
• Encourages positive parenting
• Promotes child development and school readiness
• Improves family economic self-sufficiency
• Prevents child maltreatment

Resources
Maternal Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) – mchb.hrsa.gov
CTF Funded Programs – Home Visiting
CTF Online Literature Order Form