Team up houston

may 20, 2019

Team Up Houston introduces at-risk youth to off-field sports careers.

Mayor Sylvester Turner makes YES Prep Gulfton Sr., Jacqueline Rodriguez and Bryan Sesmas laugh as he welcomed students from high schools based in the Complete Communities neighborhoods and Houston Health Department My Brother’s Keeper catchment areas and celebrated their year-long achievements in the Team Up Houston initiative Wednesday, May 15, 2019, in Houston.

SEE TO SUCCEED

november 5, 2018

300 students from Aldine ISD and over 100 students from Black Elementary received extensive vision examinations. Each child was rotated through a dozen assessment stations to determine a vision prescription and choose a frame. Glasses to be delivered a few weeks later.


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aetna gives TWO youth health initiatives $200K

October 10, 2018

The Houston Health Foundation will receive a $100,000 grant from the Aetna Foundation's Cultivating Healthy Communities program to establish a youth garden in Gulfton to promote healthier foods and curbing obesity.


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Free eye screenings expected to help low-income students excel

june 10, 2018

The Houston Health Department estimates up to 20,000 area students start school each year with unresolved eye or vision issues - a problem so pervasive that, in 2011, the agency and its nonprofit wing, the Houston Health Foundation, began offering free, full eye exams to 10 school districts.


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SEE TO SUCCEED PROGRAM CONTINUES ITS VITAL SERVICE TO SCHOOLCHILDREN

january 2, 2018

Pat Segu, O.D. Clinical Associate Professor with the University of Houston College of Optometry and Clinical Director of See to Succeed shared that they are in the seventh year of this safety net program providing free eye exams and glasses to students.


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