In this episode of Raising Joy, we interview Paige Charbonnet, the executive director of LVT Rise, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of residents in the Las Vegas Trail neighborhood of Fort Worth, Texas.

Paige discusses the top health concerns facing the Las Vegas Trail community, and how the new Las Vegas Trail Neighborhood Health Center will address those issues. 

The two-story, 40,000-square-foot center will provide pediatric and adult medical services, behavioral health services, and wrap-around social services support. It will include Cook Children’s ninth Neighborhood Health Center, a new JPS Medical Home, a food pantry, community education and onsite job training for health care industry positions. With support from the City of Fort Worth, a Fort Worth Police storefront will also be located on-site to help build stronger relations between police and the Las Vegas Trail community

The new center is expected to open in late 2025 and will serve a community that has been identified as a health care desert. This episode dives into the factors that have affected the Las Vegas Trail Neighborhood over the past several decades and what’s being done to revitalize the community.