AVANCE-Dallas

Education Administration ProgramsTexas, United States51-200 Employees

AVANCE-Dallas is a community-based, nonprofit organization that provides family support and education services to at-risk, economically impoverished families. We are one of ten chapters affiliated with our parent agency, AVANCE, Inc., established in San Antonio, Texas in 1973. In the early 1970s, the M. B. and Edna Zale Foundation funded a three-year seed grant to develop the AVANCE concept in Dallas, Texas. AVANCE, Inc. was established in 1973 in San Antonio. For the first fourteen years (1973-1987), AVANCE firmly rooted itself as a local direct service delivery model in San Antonio, offering parent education and early childhood development services. In 1995, the Texas State Legislature appropriated $1,000,000 for the expansion and replication of the AVANCE Inc. Family Support and Education Program to four communities: Dallas, El Paso, Laredo, and Corpus Christi. AVANCE was officially welcomed to Dallas in 1996 by city proclamation. AVANCE-Dallas officially opened its doors in October 1996, and during our 16-year history, AVANCE-Dallas has furthered the education of more than 17,500 Dallas Hispanics. We started at two sites in 1996, and have since grown to 33 site cohorts in the Dallas, Garland, and Irving Independent School Districts. AVANCE-Dallas now advances the lives of more than 3,200 children and parents annually through our core Parent-Child Education Program, Workplace English Program, Parent-Child Book Clubs, and Volunteer Impact Program.

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