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- EIN 27-0124899
- (573) 632-4600
- 520 Dix Rd Jefferson City MO 65109-1486 USA
- www.missourikidsfirst.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Human Services
Mission: Missouri kidsfirsts mission is to empower adults to protect children from abuse. We do this through addressing the response to child abuse when it occurs, prevention efforts to keep abuse from happening, and public policy advocacy.
Programs: Responding to child abuse encompasses all activities related to the investigation and treatment of child abuse. Program activities include training for professionals investigating child abuse, technical assistance for member child advocacy programs, training for medical providers conducting forensic exams of children, and training for mental health providers in trauma-focused, evidence-based therapies.
child abuse prevention includes education for adults about child sexual abuse prevention, developing and managing the states online mandatory reporting training, leading the states task force on child sexual abuse and engaging communities in child abuse prevention efforts.
public policy advocacy work includes educating policy makers about the dynamics of child abuse. Empowering adult to protect kids often means changing systems developed to protect children and families. Work in the legislative arena puts high impact laws into place that ultimately create greater protections missouris kids. Some policy priorities include expanding access to evidence-based mental health services to traumatized children, more appropriately identifying and treating youth with problem sexual behaviors, proposals to improve law enforcement and child protective services investigations of child abuse, and to protect the currently existing funds that support our child welfare system.