Trust Her Clinic Finder
Trust Her is the programmatic arm of CPAL's reproductive and maternal health strategy. Trust Her works to optimize our systems along a woman's entire healthcare journey. This means ensuring women can access their preferred method of contraception without barriers so they can time their pregnancies for when they are ready, to building out resources and clinical support for moms during pregnancy, birth, and postpartum.
The Trust Her Clinic Finder helps identify health centers and providers in Dallas County you can visit for family planning care like birth control and contraceptive counseling, or prenatal care if you’re pregnant or trying to become pregnant.
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Dallas College students who are evicted more likely to drop out, not return
CPAL’s study with Dallas College reveals how an eviction can have harmful and long-lasting impacts on young adults.
- Dallas College students who haven’t experienced an eviction earn a credential at about 7.5 times the rate of students who do have an eviction filing against them.
- Dallas College students who faced an eviction had a persistence rate 60% lower than the first-time students cohort; the eviction cohort also had a 50% lower retention rate compared to the first-time students cohort.
CPAL Partner Spotlight: Dallas Eviction Advocacy Center
What if real-time data could help stop evictions before they happen?
- In this CPAL Partner Spotlight, we highlight how the Dallas Eviction Advocacy Center (DEAC) is using eviction filing data from the Child Poverty Action Lab (CPAL) to execute a bold strategy: providing legal defense for every tenant, in every court, every day.
- With over 40,000 eviction filings each year in Dallas County, the stakes are high — and so is the potential for impact. CPAL’s real-time data allows DEAC to identify eviction filings as soon as they’re submitted, reach out to tenants proactively, and prepare legal defenses before they ever walk into court.
CPAL's Trust Her team gives contraception access to more women
Through the Trust Her initiative, CPAL works to dramatically increase access to free or low-cost contraception.
- 1.8 million Texas women of childbearing age cannot afford their preferred method of birth control. Without good insurance, an IUD–the most effective form of contraception–can cost up to $1,300.
- Women can often 7 months or more to obtain her method of choice. Appointments may not be available for many weeks and more waits can follow, depending on a clinic’s contraception inventory.