Building a healthier future for our children and families
Brilliant Futures
We work with the Houston Health Department to administer the Brilliant Futures Programs: five evidence-based public health programs dedicated to providing the Houston area’s most vulnerable children a strong foundation for healthy lives and brilliant futures.
SEE TO SUCCEED
The See to Succeed initiative aims to improve vision and vision related health, education and social factors by performing annual vision exams and providing eye wear.
Project Saving Smiles reduces the prevalence of tooth decay in underserved children and remove barriers to learning. This is accomplished by providing dental screenings, dental sealants, fluoride varnish, and oral health education free of charge targeting Houston’s at-risk 2nd graders who are enrolled in schools with 70% or more students on the Free and Reduced Lunch Program.
The Basics Houston, an affiliate of The Basics Learning Network, is helping to lead innovation in early childhood development and learning experience. By empowering parents and caregivers throughout the Greater Houston community using the five fun, scientifically validated Basics Principles, we can help give children a great start in and quality of life by providing free education resources!
MBK Houston supports a community-wide strategy whereby diverse organizations and individuals utilize their strengths, leverage their existing resources and work together to implement collaborative solutions to improve outcomes and reduce opportunity gaps for boys and young men of color.
The Community Gardens program has raised a total of 72 garden beds which have produced over 27,000 lbs of produce and services 12 communities through our Multi-Service Centers. This program combats food deserts and improves access to healthy produce by supporting community gardens and farmers markets. Our 12 community garden locations encourages communities to share and utilize open spaces that have been created to grow organic and nutritional produce families can use to cook at home.