Planned Parenthood of North Texas is proud to announce the Shaping Our Community, Our Health, Our Future $21.5 million capital campaign to improve access to healthcare and family planning, sustain our education programs, and maintain our vigorous advocacy efforts.
The agency’s ability to provide critical medical services to the most vulnerable in North Texas is threatened by restrictive legislation, increasing costs, enormous change in the healthcare industry, and uncertain government funding. Through this campaign, Planned Parenthood will continue to improve the lives by meeting the medical needs of the growing North Texas community and protecting basic healthcare rights for women and men through education and advocacy.
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CAMPAIGN COMPONENTS
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I. Health Center Improvement Plan
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$2.0 million |
| II. Fort Worth Health Center |
$6.5 million |
| III. Education Program Endowment |
$6.0 million |
| IV. Public Affairs Program Endowment |
$6.0 million |
| V. Campaign Costs |
$1.0 million |
| Campaign Total |
$21.5 million |
Healthcare
The primary goal of the capital campaign is to improve healthcare by making necessary improvements to our current network of health centers and opening a new facility in Fort Worth.
1. Health Center Improvement Plan:
Fully $2 million will be directed to health center improvements, including implementing electronic health records and improving and relocating specific sites to more accessible locations. The agency will also pursue new business initiatives such as negotiating contracts with insurance companies to increase revenue from third-party payers, implementing a call center to schedule appointments to allow health center personnel to focus on direct patient care, launching laboratory services for in-house processing, participating in research programs and training the next generation of providers. These funds will allow the agency to increase productivity and provide more patients with the care they need.
2. Fort Worth Health Center:
The campaign will direct $6.5 million to open a new health center and administrative office in Fort Worth. This building will replace Planned Parenthood’s existing Fort Worth medical and administrative facility, which is neither large nor modern enough to accommodate the needs of the growing Tarrant County community. The proposed facility in Fort Worth will be a new structure three times the size of the current one to provide the space, equipment and services needed by the community’s growing population. It will include a larger family planning center, a surgical care center and administrative offices.
Education
To ensure and increase Planned Parenthood’s ability to provide essential health information to the North Texas community, the campaign will direct $6 million to its education programs. This will ensure that the mission of the Education Department, to provide the whole picture of education for individuals to make responsible, educated choices, will continue and flourish.
The programs Planned Parenthood provides to area schools, churches, synagogues, social service agencies and conferences across the region will reach more of those who need them. The TeenAge Communication Theatre will continue to train area teens as peer educators for the community, the Training Institute for Improved Health will grow to provide even more training for professionals who work with young people, and the Sid W. Richardson Learning Resource Center will expand its comprehensive education library for the public’s use.
Advocacy
To support and strengthen Planned Parenthood’s public policy efforts, the campaign will direct $6 million to its advocacy programs. As a leading promoter of the fundamental right to privacy and access to critical health information, Planned Parenthood works to sustain what it believes are essential human rights – the right to comprehensive and confidential reproductive healthcare and family planning services, full access to those services and the right to obtain accurate information about sexual health.
There are many threats to those basic human rights, including restrictive regulations from both the federal and state governments, obstacles to affordable birth control, abstinence-only mandates for schools and refusal clauses for healthcare providers.
To address these threats, Planned Parenthood identifies, educates and mobilizes citizens who share our values. The agency works directly with state and federal legislators to keep them informed of the issues, since legislators at every level make decisions every day that influence access to reproductive healthcare.
For more information about this campaign, please contact Lindsay Lane at 214-302-8382 or lindsay.lane@ppnt.org.
