AVANCE’s signature effort is the Parent-Child Education Program, a research-proven model that is preventative, community-based, and two-generation focused.  It provides parents with the tools to become active participants in their children’s lives and provides children from 0 to 3 years with the education needed to become prepared and engaged students. The Parent-Child Education Program reports that more than 90 percent of its participant children outperform peers in reading, math, writing and science. 

From its beginnings 37 years ago with 35 families in a 500-unit public housing development, AVANCE now works in more than 100 sites in Texas, New Mexico, and California and serves tens of thousands of families annually, offering comprehensive early childhood and parenting education, and family support services to primarily Hispanic families in low-income, at-risk communities.