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About Us
Healthy Futures of Texas envisions a Texas where all teens reach their full potential by determining whether and when to become a parent.
To build this reality, teens need access to medically and scientifically accurate sex education, access to affordable contraception and healthcare, and the agency to act on their decisions.
We provide tools for young people to make informed decisions regarding their reproductive health and establish healthy relationships. Now, more than ever, prevention is critical! Teens and parents need access to information and resources to make the best choices for themselves.
The time is NOW for healthy futures!
Perhaps you know us by our previous name, Ntarupt, the North Texas Alliance to Reduce Unintended Pregnancy in Teens. In August 2022, we merged with Austin based Texas Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, and San Antonio based Healthy Futures of Texas under the name Healthy Futures of Texas. We are comprised of 50 professionals with expertise in health education, healthcare delivery, continuing education for youth-serving professionals, policy and research. Our team members are based in Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, Houston, and the Rio Grande Valley.
While we are now statewide, we maintain a strong local presence with community based and community informed services throughout North Texas.
The mission of Healthy Futures of Texas is to improve the well-being of young Texans through equitable access to sexual health education, contraception, and resources.
Your support will help expand our impact through the following initiatives:
- Youth Education: We provide age appropriate, medically accurate sex education both in school settings and through collaborations with community based partner organizations.
- Parent Education: We know having "the talk" can be just as awkward for parents as it is for their kids. We give parents the information and communication skills to become the trusted and knowledgeable caregiver their children need them to be. Your NTGD gift helps ensure "the talk" can happen as often as needed.
- Public Awareness: Help raise awareness among teens about specific topics related to sexual and reproductive health, like consent, healthy relationships, HIV and STI prevention, and birth control.
-Training and Technical Assistance: By training other youth-serving professionals in education, healthcare, social service and other community settings, we exponentially increase opportunities for young people to receive vital sexual health education.
- Systems-Level Change: We work with individuals who want to see change take place in their local communities, we advocate for public policies that increase young Texans’ knowledge and access to equitable sexual health education, contraception, and resources, and we consult with school districts to help them form and sustain School Health Advisory Committees (SHACs) to guide curriculum implementation.
Due to historical economic and health inequities, teen pregnancy not only intersects with poverty, but also with race. Teens experiencing barriers caused by racism are one of the groups most likely to become pregnant as teens. Disproportionately high teen birth rates and maternal mortality rates reflect the many health disparities faced by women of color in Texas and nationally.
The Healthy Futures Texas (HFTX) board and staff reflect a strong commitment to equitable and inclusive decision-making. We strive to center local communities through all the ways we engage in our work. Our anti-racism journey is ongoing and is essential to the service of our mission.
Pregnancy prevention strategies must be culturally appropriate to be effective. Therefore, we coordinate closely with organizations embedded in the communities that have a deep understanding of the cultures and traditions, and we vet curricula with a culturally competent and anti-racism lens and include additional support on issues related to LGBTQ youth and trauma-informed program delivery.
To help ensure that our efforts address the larger social structures that impact sexual health education and access to contraception, Healthy Futures of Texas works within a framework for inclusivity and empowerment that acknowledges the barriers to access of healthcare created by the complicated history of abuse and mistreatment of Black and Brown women’s bodies in reproductive medicine.
Organization name
Healthy Futures of Texas
other names
Ntarupt North Texas Alliance to reduce unintended pregnancy in teens
Causes
Youth & Children, Health Care, Human Rights, Civil Rights & Advocacy
Operating Budget
$3,000,000 - $9,999,999
Counties Served
Collin, Dallas, Denton, Tarrant
BIPOC Serving
Black or African American, Hispanic or Latinx, Native American
BIPOC Leadership
Executive Director/CEO
Equity Statement
Equity Statement
Address
2816 Swiss Ave.