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Healthy Tarrant County Collaboration (HTCC) is a coalition of hospitals, public health organizations, universities, and other community partners to foster healthier communities. Leveraging our collective talents and organizational support, we achieved numerous objectives outlined in our previous strategic plans. Building on these accomplishments, we’ve established goals and objectives for the next several years.

HEALTHY FOODS RETAIL STRATEGIES: Our focus is on bolstering access to nutritious foods in underserved areas throughout Tarrant County. Retail strategies include conducting a rolling survey of SNAP-accepting stores by zip code to identify existing opportunities and exploring sustainable options for pop-up produce sales.
ADDRESSING FOOD AND ECONOMIC INSECURITY THROUGH URBAN FARMING: In partnership with CoAct and the Office of Commissioner Roy Charles Brooks – Precinct 1, we are incubating community-member owned urban farms to help them achieve self-sufficiency. We promote bio-intensive, regenerative farming practices with minimal tilling to help build soil and maximize production.
MACRO-LEVEL HEALTH CONSIDERATIONS OF COMMUNITY AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM RELATIONSHIPS: We are exploring ways to address macro-level factors that shape population health differences, including those that affect interactions between community members and law enforcement officers.  This work is supported by a multi-year award from the NIH Common Fund’s Community Partnerships to Advance Science for Society’s (ComPASS) Community-Led Health Equity Structural Intervention (CHESI) program (1OT2OD035659-01).
COMMUNITY CORPS: HTCC provides a group of trusted east Fort Worth community leaders with factual public health information to disseminate to their respective constituencies. We are doing this to help dispel misinformation and increase factual knowledge about matters such as respiratory viruses, vaccines, and chronic disease prevention and management in communities that are disproportionately impacted by these matters.  This work is funded by a subaward from Texas CEAL, which is funded by the NIH Community Engagement Alliance (CEAL).
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    2011 - 2011

    2011
    Received the Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas award in 2011. HTCC was the first prevention grant recipient outside a large hospital system or research institution. This project piloted an email-based program called ALIVE!, which assisted participants in making small, incremental changes toward their healthy eating and active living goals. The aim was to […]
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  • 2016 - 2016

    2016
    Awarded the Plan4Health grant in 2016, HTCC tested strategies to increase access to healthier foods in underserved communities. It was the first major funding for addressing East Fort Worth’s requests for healthy food access. Funded by the American Planning Association and the American Public Health Association, this grant allowed HTCC to test new strategies. Subsequent […]
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  • 2021 - 2021

    2021
    Created the Stop Six Community Corps, from a subaward from Tarrant County Public Health for CDC funds in 2021. It enabled HTCC to recruit a group of committed community advocates to help deliver trusted public health messaging to help dispel misinformation and lies around COVID 19 and vaccines. 
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Welcome to Healthy Tarrant County Collaboration (HTCC), where hospitals, public health organizations, universities, and other community partners join forces to cultivate healthier communities. Established in 1997, HTCC emerged to conduct a comprehensive countywide assessment to uncover the community’s needs.  Today our work centers on utilizing policy, system, and environmental strategies to help address community health needs.

We love to hear from people who may be interested in:

  • Joining one of our work groups or committees.
  • Volunteering at one of the urban farms.
  • Learning more about our work.
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