Health Foundation of East Texas

Building a
healthier future
for our community

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Highlights

Challenge Statement

Announcing our Building Belonging Challenge — seeking to invest in initiatives that advance youth mental wellness and resilience.

Youth Resilience

Smartphone Smart — helping parents decide if their child is ready for a smartphone and build a strong foundation for healthy use.

YOUTH RESILIENCE

Screen-light Summer — we teamed up with local events guide The Piney List to create the Touch Grass Tour of IRL places and spaces youth can explore.

What We Focus On

Youth Resilience

Young people thrive when families, schools, and communities work together. We partner with organizations across East Texas to foster connection, belonging, and mental wellness-from phone-free classrooms to screen-light activities that help youth grow and flourish.

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Thriving Communities

A healthy community is built from the inside out. We bring together civic and community leaders across East Texas to drive the long-term, transformational change that helps every resident live a longer, healthier, more connected life – today and for generations to come.

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What We Focus On

Local Roots,
Lasting Change.

In East Texas, the piney woods are a reminder that lasting legacy grows from strong roots. Like the piney woods, we are grounded in the belief that our community’s success is bound in deep collaboration, an iterative approach, and a commitment to the strength of the whole.

Together-through assessment, planning, implementing, investing, engaging with the community, and monitoring-we can grow a beautiful canopy that filters harm and helps our community thrive.

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