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Community Health Projects
Helping make our communities healthier for everyone.
The TCMS Alliance has a long history of serving our community through health related education, fundraising and service. Whether we are serving alongside one another or other community leaders, raising money, collecting needed clothing and supplies or raising awareness, there is a place for you to serve through the Alliance. Our community health projects have changed over the years, but we have been and always will be dedicated to helping make quality healthcare available to all of our neighbors and educating our community on living healthy.
For more than 20 years, Alliance members have supported efforts to provide equity in healthcare through immunizing children, teens and adults in Tarrant County who are without a medical home and health insurance through our partnerships with the Immunization Collaboration of Tarrant County and the TMA education programs of Be Wise Immunize and now Vaccines Defend What Matter. When Covid-19 vaccines first became available in our community, Alliance Members joined first responders to provide ad hoc clinics to immunize our community against the Covid-19 virus.
Serve together with other Alliance members in our many public health projects or serve within the Alliance.
- Vaccines Defend What Matters community immunization project with our Immunization Collaboration of Tarrant County
- Hard Hats for Little Heads - help properly fit children with free bike helmets while educating them on safely wearing them
- Allied Health Scholarships - help provide scholarships to students in area Allied Health programs
- Warm Hugs - Winter Hoodie Drive for low income and homeless children in preschool at the Center for Transforming Lives
- Shower of Love - baby shower for mothers and babies in the JPS newborn nursery
- Project Access Tarrant County - help provide funding to coordinate free surgical services for low-income, uninsured patients bilingual members may help with translation
- Texas Bookshare Program - new program funded with the Texas Medical Association Foundation to provide children in underserved areas with books in English and Spanish about healthy living
| WARM HUGS Each fall, our members support the mission of the Center for Transforming Lives by collecting & donating warm hoodies for the children who attend the CTL's Early Childhood Development Center. It's our hope that each child feels a Warm Hug from our Alliance community when they wear them. Members are asked to donate new, zippered hoodies in sizes 0-5T. Donations can be dropped of Brewed, 801 W Magnolia at our Connect Over Coffee casual event, 9:30am on September 29, 2025. You may also shop our Amazon Wishlist to have the hoodies delivered to Warm Hugs chair, Margaret McDonald, donate below or by Venmo @tcmsalliance |
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| TEXAS BOOKSHARE Now in it's third year, our newest community health initiative is providing books to children during a visit with their pediatrician. This joint initiative with our Texas Medical Association Alliance strengthens our ability to donate books. Books on healthy living are provided to children who may not have access to books at home. These books are provided by their pediatrician and other healthcare providers to help ease fears, introduce healthy living and to help promote literacy. Alliance members write notes of encouragement in each one. We hope to have a fall and a spring book prep day. Since the start of Texas BookShare, we've given over 2,000 books to Cook Children's neighborhood clinics. The staff we worked with shared that the kids just light up when they are taken to the book room to choose a book. Funding for Texas BookShare comes from the proceeds of the Medicine Ball and the TMA Foundation. |
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| HARD HATS FOR LITTLE HEADS For more than 30 years, Alliances, Physicians and Medical Students have been teaching children about the importance of protecting their brains when they play on anything with wheels. Each child is fitted with their own helmet and shown how to put it on themself. A properly fitting helmet can prevent up to 85% of all head injuries. In conjunction with the Texas Medical Association, this project has proves bike safety education and properly fitting helmets. Our Alliance provides approximately 250-300 helmets yearly to children in Tarrant County with funding from TMAF and Our members, their teens and older children, physicians, residents and medical students and their spouses are all invited to join us at numerous events throughout the year. Volunteers are needed to set up at events as well as for fitting helmets. Contact Angela Donahue to be added to her contact list. abdonahue54@gmail.com Hard Hats for Little Heads is a joint project with the TMA and funded by generous donors to the TMA Foundation and the TCMSA Foundation's The Medicine Ball. |
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| SHOWER OF LOVE Join us for a heartwarming event supporting the JPS Health newborn nursery!
Each spring, our Alliance members host a shower for the JPS Health newborn nursery providing for mothers and babies who may not have the means for all of the necessities for their newborns. Last year, books in English or Spanish were added to the wish list.
Gift Donations must be new in original packaging. - Baby wipes - Diapers (Newborn, 1, 2, 3) - Hooded towels & washcloths - New/handmade blankets - Children's books - Preemie & newborn clothing You can bring gifts to the luncheon, donate here or venmo for us to do the shopping, or order from our Amazon Wishlist to be delivered to Layna's home! Click for the Amazon Wishlist Let's shower these little ones with love! |
 | Vaccines Defend What Matters Vaccines Defend What Matters is a joint initiative with medical alliances across the state. The TCMS Alliance Foundation provides funding to support free and low cost vaccination clinics each August and year round immunization education to families in Tarrant County who cannot afford them. This work is facilitated through the Immunization Collaboration of Tarrant County where our members serve on the board. Alliance members volunteer at the events helping families with check-in and to complete their paperwork. Watch the E-News and our social media for Volunteer Sign Ups starting in July for the August events. Older children and teens are encouraged to help as well. There are weekday and weekend time slots. If you don't see a time that works for you, please reach out and let us know what time and day you're available as the volunteer times are flexible. Each year, the Alliance donates $15,000 - $20,000 to provide the immunization clinics, shots and education. To help with the education or immunization events, contact Kelly Parsley. For more information on our Immunization Collaboration of Tarrant County visit ictchome.org. Thank you to the Volunteers at the 2025 Back to School Vaccination Clinics! We needed 240 volunteers to prepare more than 6,500 kids to start the first day of the new school year fully vaccinated and ready to learn! |
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| PROJECT ACCESS TARRANT COUNTY This unique partnership among physicians, hospitals, surgical centers, radiology and laboratory services in Tarrant County is led by the Tarrant County Academy Medicine. Since it's inception, our Alliance has contributed financially to help provide life-saving and life-changing medical procedures to people living in Tarrant County who fall in the gap between traditional insurance and our local JPS Health Plan. Now, our members do more than ever, providing translation services and data entry. Visit Project Access Tarrant County's website to learn more. |
