The Call to Action

Following a tragic event, Meg Foster created an organization fueled by a team of hard-working and passionate teens in order to help create a safer society in which the youth know how to protect each other from too common, unnecessary deaths.

Established in ​​​2018

This organization was founded  to help prevent deaths in Texas and to create change in state mandated CPR education. We aim to do this by providing convenient and engaging access to CPR Training and Certification at the 3rd-12th grade levels.  
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Our Goal

Our goal is to increase awareness of the necessity of increased CPR education in primary and secondary schools in Texas. We believe that increased education in CPR would help in minimizing several unnecessary deaths throughout Texas.

Our Full Story
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At an end of school year party in 2017, a 16-year-old boy with special needs had a seizure in the water and began to drown. Our founder, Meg Foster, was there and pulled him out of the pool while her brother began conducting CPR. After calling 911, they had to wait almost 15 minutes for an ambulance. Being the only ones who knew CPR at the party, Meg and her brother continuously switched off roles in performing CPR. As a result, the CPR allowed the boy to be revived on life support for two days before he was declared brain dead and unfortunately passed away. This window of time gave his family and friends enough time to say their goodbyes. After contracting PTSD from the incident, Meg partnered with a few friends in 2018 to turn a tragedy into something positive by teaching others CPR, which is how CPR in Texas was born.

Meet Our Team

​Meg Foster
Founder/Instructor

Megan Foster is a junior in the IB Programme at Plano East. Megan is passionate about CPR, choir, and theatre, and loves tea (shoutout to you, Remy!) and puppets. Meg's proudest achievements are singing a solo in the Sydney Opera House in July of 2018, and being able to teach CPR to so many wonderful kiddos through CPR in Texas. Meg works both behind the scenes and as an instructor-- she loves to have her hand in everything that is done in CPR in Texas!

​Parisa Vaziri 
Instructor

Parisa Vaziri is a sophomore in the IB Programme at Plano East. When she is not instructing CPR, Parisa enjoys playing cello in the PESH orchestra as well as the Dallas Asian American Youth Orchestra. Additionally, Parisa has been competing and winning at several science fairs in Texas. She excels in school and specializes in AED training during group instructing sessions for CPR in Texas.

​Byanca Ochoa
Instructor

Byanca Ochoa is a junior in the IB Programme at Plano East. Byanca excels at art and enjoys the courses math studies, history, and IB environmental science at school. Byanca is also a native Spanish speaker, making her fully able to speak to the Spanish speaking population CPR in Texas instructs!