Texas Health is a faith-based health organization that values congregations and their leaders as partners in nurturing the health and well-being of North Texas communities. Inside and outside hospital walls, Texas Health is committed to improving the lives of the people we serve through community partnerships – including faith communities.
We work together to keep people healthy and out of the hospital by addressing unmet “upstream” needs. Many of these needs are Social Drivers of Health which include food security, social connection, transportation, language facilitation and safe living conditions, among others.
What is CHAMPs’ Purpose?
Texas Health engages CHAMPs congregations to highlight the ways Social Drivers of Health impact North Texas neighborhoods. When your congregation becomes a CHAMP it will have improved resources to keep members healthy and to become a transformational community leader by engaging in collaborative health and wellness missions in underserved communities. Health is essential to any thriving congregation. When your congregation becomes a CHAMP it will have improved resources to keep members healthy and to become a transformational community leader by engaging in collaborative health missions. Through CHAMPs, you will:
- Learn about health issues impacting North Texas and best practices for response
- Meet with hospital leaders to learn about the ways the hospital and community partner for health and local mission opportunities
- Network together on a volunteer basis to address unmet Social Drivers of Health needs in underserved communities
- Offering congregational and community health and wellness education
- Supporting caregivers visiting hospitalized individuals
- Opportunities to partner with other CHAMPs congregations in local wellness and SDoH mission projects
- Meals provided during in-person CHAMPs education and/or networking events
