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Hampshire Children's Trust Fund

For every dollar you invest,

the NH Children’s Trust Fund is able to leverage additional federal dollars to further our work in New Hampshire

Preventing child abuse and neglect is more than the avoidance of tragedy. Investing in the development of strong, stable and nurturing families is a cost-effective down payment in the life of a child.

For some families, the stresses in their lives are simply too much to handle without help. This year, with families under increased stress in a struggling economy, we need to support families and protect children. Please help by sending a donation right now.

Each of us plays a crucial role in supporting families. Family stress often increases with single parenting, poverty, loss of a job, having a child with special physical or behavioral challenges, and social isolation. You can help support families through these deeply troubling times. A gift to the Children’s Trust Fund is carefully invested in family support programs and prevention activities across the state.

Family support programs provide parenting support and knowledge of child development, and they provide buffers against the daily stress and challenges of parenting, by building the resilience of parents. Perhaps their most important gifts are the acknowledgement that parenting can be difficult and stressful, even in the best of times, and the sense of relief that someone can help. Will you?

The cost of failure is severe and life-altering, in the case of child abuse prevention.

100% of your gift stays in NH to strengthen families and keep children safe.

Give online by clicking the DONATE button at the top or send a check by mail: NHCTF, 10 Ferry Street, Suite 315, Concord, NH 03301

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Give in memory or in honor of a loved one, we’ll send out a card to whomever you would like informing them of the donation.

Your contribution to the NH Children’s Trust

will Prevent Child Abuse and Neglect:

By supporting New Hampshire community-based child abuse and neglect prevention programs through funding, training, technical assistance and evaluation

By helping New Hampshire parents advocate for their children's and family’s needs through trainings and workshops
By providing parenting skill-building materials and resources in over one hundred libraries in New Hampshire
By educating, informing and advocating on behalf of New Hampshire’s children, and

By helping to keep children safe and families strong in New Hampshire!

What is Child Abuse and Neglect?

Physical Abuse is harm to a child caused intentionally or from excessive or inappropriate discipline methods.
- Common signs are: bruises, welts, human bite marks, bald spots, cigarette burns, immersion burns, fractures, lacerations, abrasions and may include shaking or punching an infant, child or youth.
Emotional Abuse is the maltreatment of a child that may involve criticizing, insulting, yelling, swearing, manipulating, humiliating, rejecting or withholding love.
Sexual Abuse is any sexual contact with a child including exhibitionism, photographs or films, pornography, prostitution, rape or fondling or any type of sexual exploitation of a child or youth.
Neglect is the failure to provide for a child’s basic physical, emotional, medical or educational needs. It may involve abandonment or parental alcohol or drug abuse, and/or exposure to domestic violence.

Who Abuses Children? Usually someone the child knows: a parent, relative, neighbor or family friend.

Where Does Abuse Happen? Wherever children are: where they live, sleep, learn or play.

What are the Lifelong Consequences of Abuse? We know that victims of abuse are at an increased risk for alcoholism, depression, sexually transmitted infections, intimate partner violence and suicide attempts.

Here at the NH Children's Trust Fund we strive to meet our legislative mandate of supporting programs that prevent child abuse and neglect. dad and son

The causes of child abuse and neglect are many and complex, interrelated with poverty, domestic violence, substance abuse, and mental health factors. The solutions are equally complex and require multiple and interrelated efforts to protect children, strengthen families. In particular, prevention requires support and intervention BEFORE the abuse or neglect occurs. The consequences of allowing children to be abused and/or neglected are clear, measurable and have negative results not only for the individual but for the entire society. An abused child is more likely to wind up a delinquent teen, a sick adult, one that may continue the cycle of abuse.

Keeping children safe and families strong requires all of us to know the facts, the causes and the solutions.

Just one abused child is one too many.

Please join us in keeping every child in New Hampshire safe. This is a job for all of us and we will all benefit.

The New Hampshire Children’s Trust Fund provides financial assistance, training, technical assistance and evaluation support to community based child abuse and neglect prevention and family support programs in New Hampshire. Donations are tax deductible. For more information on the New Hampshire Children’s Trust Fund explore our website or call (603) 224-1279.

Volunteer Opportunities with the New Hampshire Children’s Trust Fund:

NHCTF Committees

Program and Evaluation
Human Resources
Finance
Public Relations and Fundraising

Office Assistance

Data entry, shredding, mailings, etc.

Program Assistance

Special Events, Trainings, etc.

Email us: info@nhctf.org or call us: (603) 224-1279 for more information!