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AVANCE-Dallas opens with Lisa Oglesby Rochas as its inaugural Executive Director, a team of five employees, three program sites, and a budget of $300,000.

AVANCE receives one of the first Nationwide Even Start Program grants to improve the literacy skills and academic achievement of young children and their parents in low-income families.

AVANCE expands in Texas with the opening of a new chapter office, AVANCE-Houston. 

The New York Times and ABC World News present the widely acclaimed Parent-Child Education Program, and the First Lady, Barbara Bush visits AVANCE for the first time.  

During his trip to Texas, Price Charles, now King Charles III, King of the United Kingdom, stopped by San Antonio’s West Side to visit the organization advocating for parent education, AVANCE. 

In an expansion of the Dallas model, Dr. Gloria Rodriguez, a teacher and advocate for parent education, founds AVANCE in San Antonio and begins offering PCEP (originally the Mother-Infant Program) at the Mirasol Housing Project on San Antonio’s West Side.