HEALTHY TARRANT COUNTY COLLABORATION

Our 2019 - 2021 strategic plan focuses on 3 goals:

Goal 1. Healthy Foods Access. Increase access to healthy foods in underserved areas across Tarrant County.
We are implementing an array of retail strategies and urban agriculture to address healthy foods access in east and southeast Fort Worth as a pilot. The best strategies will be replicated in other parts of Tarrant County in the future.

Goal 2. Policy-Systems-Environmental (PSE) Strategies. Increase city policies that support health and wellbeing.
We are focusing on local policy development in five Tarrant County cities: Fort Worth, Arlington, North Richland Hills, Haltom City, and Watauga.

Goal 3. Resident Engagement . Increase resident engagement with member organizations utilizing the Resident Engagement Practices Typology.
We are using ReThink Health's Resident Engagement Practices Typology as a framework for assessing how our member institutions engage with the community.

Goal 1. Healthy Foods Access. Increase access to healthy foods in underserved areas across Tarrant County.
Objective 1 . At least one option for healthy food purchasing within one mile of 50% of the household in East/Southeast Fort Worth.
Objective 2. By April 2021, HTCC will disseminate a healthy food availability tool that can be used by the community and health providers to direct patients to places as close to home as possible for shopping.
Objective 3 . Expand healthy corner store program to one other underserved area in Tarrant County.

Goal 2. Policy-Systems-Environmental (PSE) Strategies. Increase city policies that support health and wellbeing.
Objective 1. Identify gaps and prioritize issues that have a significant health implication in Fort Worth, Arlington, North Richland Hills, Watauga and Haltom City by end of June 2019.
Objective 2. Develop policy strategies on 3-5 of the identified issues for Fort Worth, Arlington, North Richland Hills, Watauga and Haltom City by end of March 2020.
Objective 3. One or more of the cities (Fort Worth, Arlington, North Richland Hills, Watauga and Haltom City) will adopt a policy that supports health and wellbeing on HTCCs recommendation by end December 2021.

Goal 3. Resident Engagement . Increase resident engagement with member organizations utilizing the Resident Engagement Practices Typology.
Objective 1. By the end of 2019, an assessment tool will be created to measure member organizations status in each of the resident engagement practices.
Objective 2. By end of March 2020, the assessment tool will be disseminated to all member organizations (n=11).
Objective 3. By end of September 2020, gaps will be identified and strategies to address the gaps will be developed.
Objective 4. By end of June 2021, a report on ways to increase resident engagement among member organizations will be disseminated.

Staff from our member institutions and other community partners come together for project-specific work groups to implement strategies aimed at achieving the objectives listed above.

Our Executive Director is our only dedicated staff person.

Goal 1.
Objective 1 . Through our Healthy Foods Availability Index (HFAI) surveys we have identified many more places where people may shop for at least some of their healthy groceries, and currently have found at least one option within 1 mile of at least 50% of the homes.
Objective 2. Our map showing the location of healthy food shopping opportunities has been shared with MedStar (EMS) to use with their community-based patients, and with our hospital members to use with their care transitions programs.
Objective 3 . We have added three new healthy corner stores to our network

Goal 2. Policy-Systems-Environmental (PSE) Strategies. Increase city policies that support health and wellbeing.
Objective 1. We have identified broad overarching policy interests for the five cities we are working with, plus have identified a county-level policy opportunity for advocacy purposes.

Goal 3. Resident Engagement . Increase resident engagement with member organizations utilizing the Resident Engagement Practices Typology.
Objective 1. One of our work group members has her MPH students working on the survey/data collection tool this fall.