WIC Playbook
CPAL, IDEO.org, and Texas and Dallas WIC have partnered to understand how we might increase uptake of WIC benefits from both clinic and participant perspectives. Through research and prototyping in Dallas, we discovered pain points and a few opportunity areas to test with the goal of improving the benefit program.
This Playbook is your first step to prototyping different concepts within the opportunity areas. It highlights some of the key ideas, gives you guiding principles to follow, and helps you start building low-cost, quick, and low-fidelity prototypes to test and iterate upon. This process will help you start to identify which ideas will have the most impact.
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Dallas Knows More About Evictions Than Ever Before, Just in Time for a New Surge
CPAL’s new eviction filing dashboard is helping Dallas grasp the scale of the housing insecurity problem tenants face.
- CPAL’s dashboard allows a user to segment eviction filing data by city and county, but it can also explore more granular trends, like by ZIP codes, council districts, and school boundaries.
- In January 2022, Dallas landlords filed 2,056 evictions against tenants within the city limits. While these numbers are about half of what was filed in January 2020, this is still the highest point in the pandemic.
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CPAL Launches Mobile Clinic to Enhance Family Planning
In partnership with Parkland Health, CPAL's Trust Her team launches a mobile clinic to enhance family planning services for Dallas College students.
- Partnering with Parkland Health Foundation, Dallas College, and philanthropic partners led by the W.W. Caruth, Jr. Fund at Communities Foundation of Texas, a Trust Her mobile clinic has been launched in North Texas to continue CPAL’s work to improve maternal health by helping ensure women and families have the resources they need to plan for their futures.
- This barrier-free clinic is designed to meet women literally where they are, and to provide same-day access to birth control regardless of ability to pay.
Housing Remediation as an Effective Intervention for Pediatric Asthma
This issue-brief describes the impacts of asthma in Dallas and how home repair can better asthma outcomes, increase economic mobility, and improve the quality of life for children
- Asthma is a leading cause of school absenteeism and is costly. In 2023, Dallas County children experienced 1,036 asthma inpatient hospital visits. The combined costs of these visits were ~$10.3M, for an average cost of $9,966 per visit.
- The Green and Healthy Homes Initiative estimates that 40% of all asthma episodes are caused by preventable home-based asthma allergens, like dust, pests, and mold.