Please donate now! Click HERE for current Job openings "As a society, we don't have the luxury of looking through any child.  All of them have worth." Terdema Ussery, President & CEO of the Dallas Mavericks Learn more about our program!

Heart House’s innovative afterschool program is designed for school-age children in a neighborhood known for its high crime & unemployment rates and lack of affordable, quality care for children. At Heart House, children have access to caring mentors, homework assistance, arts enrichment, computer skills tutoring, health & safety education, and literacy programs. A Typical Day at Heart House: We begin with a free snack generously donated by Central Dallas Ministries for every child in the program.  We eat snack as a whole site so we can practice our language and communication skills. We split into smaller groups of 15 and go with our Program Leaders to our classrooms.  We read our greeting letters, look at our schedule, and get out our homework. Our Program Leaders remind us what to do when we are finished with our homework, and then they help us get started. We work on our homework by ourselves, with a friend, with a volunteer, or with our Program Leader.  When we are finished with our homework, we go outside to play for a little while. We come back in and begin learning about our theme during program.  Sometimes we read books, play games, or create art.  We always learn and have fun! When it is time to go home, we all get together again, say good-bye to our Program Leader and leave!

Heart House improves kids’ behavior at school and at home.

• Teachers believe 80% of Heart House children have shown an improvement in behavior with adults and other children at school.
      

• 96% of parents report that they have seen their child exhibit positive and productive interactions at home since attending Heart House.

Heart House improves kids’ achievement at school.

• 96% of parents believe their children are doing better academically because Heart House offers homework hour and reading time every day.  
    

• Teachers agree, and report that 81% of Heart House children have shown an improvement in quality and frequency of homework turned in.  

Heart House helps working families.

• While the work day grows longer for working parents, the school day has not. The gap is as much as 25 hours per week for some families.

• Polling nationally shows that 87% of working mothers say the hours after school are when they are most concerned about their children's safety.

The need for afterschool care in Dallas is great.

• 67% of school-age youth in low-income Dallas County zip codes do not have access to afterschool programming.

Heart House is a wise social investment, while unrealized potential of youth costs the nation billions.

• Each year's class of dropouts will cost the country more than $200 billion during their lifetimes in lost earnings and unrealized tax revenue.
    

• American business currently spends more than $60 billion each year on training, much of that on remedial reading, writing, and mathematics.
   

• Every dollar invested in afterschool programs will save taxpayers approximately $3, according to a study by the Rose Institute at Claremont McKenna College.