Free Vaccines for Students Returning to School in North Texas: Locations and Information

Several agencies will be offering free vaccines these weeks for students who must return to school in North Texas.

And Wilmer

The Dallas County Department of Health and Human Services will have covid-19 vaccines and necessary back-to-school immunizations at a health fair scheduled for this weekend.

Vaccines will be available free of charge and no appointment is necessary.

The vaccination clinic is this Saturday, August 12 from 9 am to 12 pm at Praise Fellowship Church located at 4801 South I-45 in Wilmer, located 15 miles south of downtown Dallas. Visited dallascounty.org for more information.

Parkland Hospital Clinics

Parkland Hospital offers back-to-school immunizations at its Dallas clinics. On Wednesdays they attend without appointment, during their events called “Walk-In Wednesdays”. The staff is available those days from 9 to 11 am and from 1 to 4 pm Parents are asked to bring their child’s immunization record. Call 214-266-4000 or visit parklandhealth.org for more information.

A Garland

The Garland Public Health Clinic offers low-cost vaccines to children and adults on a walk-in basis Monday through Friday from 7:30 am to 5:30 pm at 206 Carver Street in Garland. Call 972-205-3370 or visit GarlandTX.gov for more information.

En Oak Cliff

Until this Friday, August 11, Clínica Los Barrios Unidos offers walk-in vaccinations at no cost, and they give out $20 gift cards. They serve children ages 3 to 18 at their two pediatric branches: at 3111 Sylvan Avenue, and at 5787 S. Hampton Rd. Suite #365 (third floor), in Dallas. They are open until 6 pm at the Sylvan branch, and until 5 pm on Hampton Road.

For more information, call 214-540-0300 or visit losbarriosunidos.org

Also read: What are the mandatory vaccines that Texas schools ask for

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Texas Child Immunization

The Texas Childhood Immunization Program, or Texas Vaccines for Children (TVFC), offers vaccines for children and young people up to 18 years of age at a very low cost. Beneficiaries must meet one of the following requirements:

Be part of or eligible for the Medicaid program, or Be enrolled in the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), or Be a Native American or Alaska Native, or Have no health insurance, or Have private insurance that does not cover vaccines or does not include those required for the school year. This group of people will be cared for at a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) or a Rural Health Clinic (RHC).

TVFC offers immunizations against diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis or whooping cough (Tdap, Td, or DTaP); polio; measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR); hepatitis A and B; chickenpox; meningococcus; human papilloma virus (HPV); influenza; rotavirus; pneumococcus; and hemophilia influenza type B (Hib).

Texas is one of the states with the highest number of uninsured and underinsured children, according to the Texas DSHS. Many of these children fail to complete the immunization series needed to protect them from preventable diseases.

You can use the digital map tool Texas DSHS to locate providers near you. There are 22 providers near Tarrant County, 21 near Dallas County, nine in Denton, and three in Collin.

Call 888-777-5320 or 214-819-2163, or email [email protected] for more information.

What vaccines do schools ask for?

The state of Texas has a list of required immunizations before enrolling in a private or public school. The doses of each immunization vary by age, but all must be completed between kindergarten and 12th grade.

Diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough
Polio
Measles, mumps and rubella
Hepatitis B
chicken pox
meningococcal vaccine
Hepatitis A

See the full list required by grade level in this document of the state of Texas.

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