Summary
Organization name
Care & Prepare (CQEC)
Tax id (EIN)
74-3230134
Causes
Seniors
Operating Budget
Less than $100,000
Counties Served
Dallas, Tarrant
Address
PO Box 12424Fort Worth, TX 76110
Care & Prepare helps Texans understand their healthcare rights, reflect on what matters most, and document wishes before a crisis. Through Mind the GAP 2030: #ACPforALL, we are expanding person-centered ACP education, facilitator training, inclusive tools, and technology so patient wishes can be known and honored.
Prepared beats panicked every time.
Our Vision: All people living well, All their days.
Our Passion: Care & Prepare helps Texans understand their healthcare rights, responsibilities, and choices before a medical crisis occurs. Through Mind the GAP 2030: #ACPforALL, we are building a more compassionate, practical, and connected approach to Advance Care Planning (ACP).
Our Mission: To stimulate end of life conversations through education. 2026 Webinar: DFW Hospital Council hosts Care & Prepare and UTA webinar utilizing AI & ACP
Our Dream: Provide All Texans with Advance Care Planning (ACP) & ability to retrieve those decisions by family & clinicians.
Who We Are: Care & Prepare engages healthy individuals and people facing serious illness in proactive conversations about their healthcare wishes.
We help people identify who should speak for them, reflect on what matters most, and communicate their decisions so families and clinicians are not left guessing during a crisis.
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Mission
Did you know all the landmark cases for End-of-Life Care involved young adults in their 20s?
Accidents, illness, and injury can surprise anyone. We believe everyone should have the opportunity to Steward their legacy regardless of their age or station in life because each life is valuable.
Advance Care Planning: It's always too early - until it's too late!
We are a small nonprofit with a few revolutionary ideas & a long track record of success. For 27+ years we've been organized & run by volunteers: primarily in Fort Worth.
Covid changed things. Texans are more aware that their healthcare status could change in an instance. We have a death averse culture, so dying & end of life issues are rarely discussed even with some terminally ill patients. This is not an acceptable standard of healthcare.
Our Challenge: To revolutionize the process of ACP in Fort Worth, Texas.
Our Dream: a virtual Texas registry of all ACP documents & make those medical wishes available so any physician with a web browser can know & honor those healthcare decisions.
Few Texans have ACP documents; studies show our minority communities have even less. The elderly, terminally ill & underserved populations are struggling the most. Ours is a unique effort to reach the terminally ill, the frail & our minority community by embedding into physician's offices & working with other trusted partners in our sphere.
Needs
Your gift helps Texans prepare before a crisis—so patients, families, and clinicians have greater clarity, confidence, and the ability to honor what matters most.
$50 — Helps one patient and family begin an ACP conversation.
$325 — Sponsors introductory training for one ACP facilitator.
$650 — Sponsors complete introductory and advanced ACP facilitator training.
$3,931.63 — Expands online access to ACP resources and appointment scheduling.
$7,500 — Supports one facilitator apprenticeship and clinic-based ACP capacity.
$10,500 — Launches ACP education materials and Employer Decision Readiness development.
Will you help us reach our neighbors with this important & timely information?
Equity Statement
Our Dream: Everyone has Advance Care Planning (ACP) and an opportunity to explore what types of healthcare they would want to receive should they suddenly have an irreversible accident, illness or injury.
ACP as it should be: Person-Centered, Integrated, Care Concordant & Accessible.
ACP as it is: Nonexistent, Institution specific, & rarely accessible.
We seek for all to benefit - especially our underserved neighbors, who may not have understood their health care rights & responsibilities. Care & Prepare participated in a study that was reported in JAMA Network May 2020. The research question was: "Can a low-cost, easily scaled, end-of-life conversation game motivate underserved African American individuals to engage in advance care planning?" Currently, less than 25% of BIPOC have ACP planning. Hence, they are less likely to have their medical care wishes known & honored. This more informal approach to ACP yielded an increase in ACP document completion. If we want to increase concordant ACP wishes & care with BIPOC, then better methods of communication are in order to decrease the disparity.
Ideally, we would like to keep up with the demand of our community, but our county has grown by over 1 million in the last decade. Of particular concern is our BIPOC neighbors, who may not have understood their health care rights & responsibilities.
We strengthen the administration of justice in the community especially when the at-risk & BIPOC (Black,Indigenous and people of color) are informed of their rights & responsibilities. This keeps the healthcare decision-making authority of the patients between them and their chosen agents versus being subject to the statutes for medical decision-making authority over them.
We believe in = "ACP for ALL." ALL meaning ALL.
Few in DFW have ACP documents; studies show our minority communities have even less. The elderly, terminally ill & underserved populations are struggling the most. Ours is a unique effort to reach the terminally ill, the frail & our minority community by embedding into physician's offices & other trusted partners.
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Fort Worth, TX 76110