Butler County CRC News -
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Published on: 4/11/1999
Last Visited: 5/5/2006
-Sarah Long
Sarah Long and Mary Findley
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Sarah Long, left, a Children's Trust Fund board member, and Mary Findley of the Butler County License Bureau show Missouri Children's Trust Fund license plates that help fund teen mentoring in Butler County.
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Sarah Long, Poplar Bluff R-1 Schools assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction, said similar teen parent programs have been run in Kansas City area for several years which has seen a substantial decrease in child abuse by young parents.
Last October, Long was appointed by Gov.
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" A total of $1,508,728 was awarded in grant money in 2003 to agencies to develop projects that will prevent child abuse," Long said.
Some of the projects the money has helped fund in Southeast Missouri include, $10,222.00 to Bollinger County Health Center for their Safe Crib Project; $31,641.00 to Whole Kids Outreach in Ellington for their Resource Mothers Program and $28,723.00 to Pemiscot County Initiative Network in Caruthersville for their Children Safe in Their Families program.
Long said their were two infant deaths in Butler County in 2002 due to shaken baby syndrome.She said the whole focus of CTF is to prevent child abuse.
"We've had an increase in the number of teen moms and dads participating in the teen parent program," she said.