Center for Health Promotion and Prevention Research
Project
All for Them
Project Overview
All for Them (AFT) is a multilevel, multicomponent approach to effectively increase HPV vaccine initiation and completion among youth living in medically underserved areas in Texas. The program includes three strategies to achieve this goal:
- A social marketing educational campaign: Our health education campaign focuses on parents and teens, empowering them to make the best choices for their families and their health. Messaging works to normalize HPV vaccination as part of recommended, routine adolescent health care, and includes positive, bilingual, and culturally appropriate messaging.
- Comprehensive school- and community-based vaccination clinics: Vaccination clinics offer, at minimum, Tdap, HPV, and meningococcal vaccines, but most often all childhood and adolescent immunizations. These immunizations are provided at low or no cost to all eligible middle and high school students, helping to remove common barriers to vaccination.
- School nurse education and training: For many students, school nurses are one of the most — if not the only — constant health professionals and advocates in their lives. That is why we developed School Nurse Champions for HPV Vaccination, an education course that supports school nurses’ advocacy for the HPV vaccine. Education will soon be expanded to community health workers.
The original AFT initiative was implemented from 2017-2020 in Houston ISD middle schools. The AFT team is currently implementing this program at middle and high schools and in multiple Texas communities throughout Houston, Baytown, Fort Worth, and San Antonio with opportunities for implementation in additional underserved school districts.
Project Details
All for Them is funded by the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) – Prevention Services with ancillary support from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center’s Be Well™ Baytown and HPV Vaccination Initiatives:
- CPRIT PP250072: Implementation of a Multi-Component Community Intervention to Increase HPV Vaccination Among Adolescents in Bexar County (2025-2027)
- CPRIT PP240030: All for Them: A multilevel strategy for HPV-related cancer prevention (2024-2028)
- CPRIT PP200017: Expanding "All for Them": A Comprehensive School-Based Approach to Increase HPV vaccination through Public Schools (2020-2025)
- CPRIT PP170046: Using Social Marketing and Mobile School-Based Vaccination Clinics to Increase HPV Vaccination Uptake in High-Risk Geographic Areas (2017-2021)
- The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center's Be Well™ Baytown: "All for Them Baytown" (2020-2024)
- The University of Texas MD Anderson: "All for Them Aldine," "All for Them Crowley" and "All for Them Spring" (2022-present)
This project is a collaboration among researchers, health care providers, and educators at UTHealth Houston School of Public Health and:
Aldine Independent School District, Baylor College of Medicine, Be Well™ Baytown, CHRISTUS Healthy Living Mobile Clinics, Cizik School of Nursing at UTHealth Houston, Fort Worth Independent School District, Goose Creek Consolidated Independent School District, Houston Independent School District, Immunization Collaboration of Tarrant County, McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston, Texas Children’s Mobile Clinic Program, Texas School Nurses Organization, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth, The University of Texas School of Public Health San Antonio, UT Health San Antonio School of Nursing
We appreciate our past collaborators.
Faculty and Staff
- Paula Cuccaro, PhD – Program Director (PD)
- Elizabeth Baumler, PhD – Co-Investigator and Statistician
- Sanghamitra Misra, MD, MEd – Co-Investigator, Site Lead at BCM
- Daisy Mullassery, DrNP, RN, WHNP-BC – Co-Investigator
- Amy Raines, DrPH – Co-Investigator, Site Lead at HSC Ft. Worth
- Lara Savas, PhD – Co-Investigator
- Erika Thompson, PhD, MPH, CPH – PD at UT Health San Antonio
- Diane Santa Maria, DrPH, MSN, RN, PHNA-BC, FSAHM, FAAN – Co-Investigator
- Sally Vernon, PhD – Professor Emerita
- Efrat Gabay, MPH – Senior Project Manager
- Amy Casebier – Manager Communications
Project Staff
Project personnel are listed below. Click on a name to view the individual profile.
Nearly $4 million Awarded for Cancer Prevention and Research
Projects spearheaded by the School of Public Health researchers focus on promoting healthy habits to prevent cancer, facilitating communication and implementation strategies to promote the HPV vaccine, and utilizing early detection strategies to detect and prevent breast and cervical cancer in underserved Latina communities.
All for Them hits the road to address barriers to vaccination for children in Texas
Every year the World Health Organization recognizes the last week of April as World Immunization Week – a time to celebrate the millions of lives saved and the eradication of multiple diseases because of vaccines. However, access to vaccines is still a barrier for many children in our community, so public health experts with The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) are hitting the ground to bring lifesaving immunizations directly to them through All for Them.
All for Them Showcases Program Impacts at Major Conferences
All for Them team members recently attended the 36th International Papillomavirus Conference (IPVC) this past November in Edinburgh, Scotland.
CHPPR HPV Vaccination Initiative Launches Continuing Nursing Education Program
The All for Them vaccination initiative has launched a free Continuing Nursing Education course entitled “School Nurses are All for Them: HPV Vaccination in Schools.” This online, self-paced course was developed specifically for school nurses in Texas, but nurses and health professionals working in other settings are invited to take the course as well.
All for Them engages with Goose Creek CISD high school students during vaccine outreach efforts
UTHealth Houston's All for Them vaccination project is finding new ways to connect with teens and young adults to spark interest in immunization clinics. At Goose Creek CISD, team members connect one-on-one with high school students to raise awareness about health topics, cancer awareness, and careers in public health.
All for Them team publishes paper on lessons learned over project’s course
Higher-level champions within schools. Known and trusted health organizations. Tailored outreach efforts that meet families and communities where they are. These are just a few key ingredients to the recipe of success that All for Them created while coordinating hundreds of free, school-based vaccination clinics for Texas students.
All for Them HPV vaccination project expands life-saving reach across Texas
Since 2017, nearly 5,000 children have received at least one life-saving vaccine through All for Them.
"All for Them" Vaccination Program Launches New Website
The UTHealth Center for Health Promotion and Prevention Research has launched a new website for the highly successful HPV vaccination program All for Them (AFT).
UTHealth Houston, UNTHSC Partnership Key to Success of "All for Them" Vaccination Program
Establishing a local branch of the All for Them team in North Texas through Thompson and UNTHSC has allowed to bring more life-saving vaccines to children and adolescents in the community.
UTHealth Houston’s All for Them project for vaccination outreach receives nearly $2.5M CPRIT grant
All for Them, a vaccination program run by UTHealth Houston School of Public Health, will continue its work to protect Texas youth against HPV-related cancers with almost $2.5 million in funding from The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT).