Phoenix House Texas provides substance use prevention and mental health education programming for youth in grades K-12, their families, and the broader community. Our Positive Prevention approach empowers youth and families to use their innate strengths to learn life skills, improve communication and emotional regulation, and make healthy choices. Our services foster awareness regarding the health consequences of substance use with a focus on the state of Texas' priority topics: underage alcohol use, tobacco and nicotine, marijuana and other cannabinoids, and prescription drug misuse.
Our Positive Prevention programming includes evidence-baed curriculum education; trainings on opioids and Naloxone administration to reverse deadly overdose; free Naloxone distribution; Prevention and Behavioral Health presentations; Positive Alternatives; and Project Empathy workshops, which address stigma through education on empathy and the neuroscience of addiction. We operate Universal, Selective, and Indicated Prevention. Universal Prevention is the broadest approach, utilizing the Botvin Life Skills Training and Guiding Good Choices curricula. Selective Prevention is more targeted, serving youth at high-risk for misusing substances and utilizing the Positive Action and Learning to BREATHE curricula. Indicated Prevention is the most targeted approach, serving youth with existing substance misuse and/or behavioral health challenges and utilizing the Blue Program and Curriculum-Based Support Group curricula.
We prioritize serving youth, families, and communities in Dallas county who are disproportionally impacted by adverse Social Determinants of Health impacts such as poverty and financial instability, inadequate education and/or educational barriers, inadequate healthcare and/or lack of access to quality care, discrimination and limited access to positive opportunities, lack of positive social supports, and unsafe home, neighborhood, and/or physical environments.
In Program Year 2025, our Positive Prevention programs reached more than 126,665 people across Texas—a 148% increase overall from the year prior. Since September 2024, we have been significantly growing our Positive Prevention services, tripling the number of programs we operate in Dallas County. In Program Year 2025, our Dallas County Positive Prevention programs reached over 27,900 participants across 54 ZIP Codes, and on average, 95% of Dallas County participants successfully complete our Positive Prevention programming.
Help support the reach and impact of our Positive Prevention programming and empower youth, families, and communities in Dallas County with the tools they need to be healthy and thrive!
We are passionate about healing individuals, families, and communities challenged by substance use disorders and related mental health conditions.
At Phoenix House Texas, we're committed to preventing substance use and improving mental health and well-being. Through our Positive Prevention programs, we empower youth, their families, and communities with knowledge, support, and guidance. Your contribution on North Texas Giving Day directly funds these initiatives, creating a healthier and safer environment for youth and our community.
At Phoenix House Texas, our youth are at the core of who we are and what we do. Since addiction does not discriminate, we provide services to a wide range of patients from all types of communities. As an organization, we work to be respectful of the wide range of cultural behaviors, reduce opportunities for bias and help our work to better resonate with all partners. PHT recognizes and works to address the disparity in access to healthcare that disproportionately hurts communities of color and LGBTQIA+ individuals.
Organization name
Phoenix House Texas
other names
Phoenix Houses of Texas, Inc.
Causes
Mental and Behavioral Health
Operating Budget
$3,000,000 - $9,999,999
Counties Served
Dallas
BIPOC Serving
Black or African American, Asian/Pacific Islander, Hispanic or Latinx, Native American, Other
BIPOC Leadership
Neither/None
Address
2345 Reagan Street