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CPAL Launches Mobile Clinic to Enhance Family Planning

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Dallas County has more children with parents behind bars than any of its peers across Texas.

As many as 100,000 children a year in Dallas have parents behind bars. These children have a much higher risk of aggression and antisocial behavior, suspension and expulsion, depression, anxiety, substance abuse, suicide, and incarceration.
With people of color representing 8 out of 10 of the incarcerated, Black and Latino children are disproportionately affected. They are 7.5 times and 2.3 times more likely than white children, respectively, to have had an incarcerated parent.

CPAL leadership will guide a working group aiming to maximize Dallas’ share of available federal infrastructure dollars.

Dallas is eligible for an estimated $4 billion in formula funds from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, the CHIPS and Science Act, and the Inflation Reduction Act.
The group will coordinate with officials to give voice to constituent concerns and leverage existing funds, with a goal to improve infrastructure across the city for future generations.

CPAL and key partners are using data to remediate blight in the Mill City neighborhood.

Many Dallas neighborhoods have extensive blight, which signals systemic disinvestment and invites harm.
Blight has become a focal point of citywide investment in many cities across the country to accelerate programs to re-green vacant lots.