HEART HOUSE
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Mission Statement
HEART HOUSE – A Place for Moving from Chaos to Calm Heart House is a nonprofit that uses education as a catalyst to combat poverty and promote equity for the most vulnerable in our city: refugee children. Established in 2000, it provides life-changing services to refugee, immigrant, and low-income children and operates in the heart of the Vickery Meadow community of Dallas, a high-poverty area where 50 different languages are spoken. Heart House’s culturally competent model has proven to increase social- emotional health, confidence levels and academic performance in underprivileged children hailing from trauma-sensitive backgrounds.
About This Cause
Heart House is an education nonprofit that serves refugee children with an innovative after-school and summer program and uses social-emotional learning to help them thrive in their new community. Heart House serves these children with a holistic model to establish a pathway to success in school and in life for each child. This social emotional learning approach helps level the playing field, and our culturally sensitive programming is customized to their background and current emotional state. Through the Head, Heart, and Hands (H3) program, Heart House gives children living in Vickery Meadow a chance to blossom through afterschool and summer programs and services, including homework assistance, mentoring, special projects and counseling. Head, Heart and Hands (H3) Unlike traditional afterschool programs that focus primarily on academic support, Heart House’s model simultaneously addresses a range of needs including trauma-recovery and SEL. Operating in the middle of Dallas’ largest and most diverse refugee neighborhoods, Heart House’s core values center on providing culturally relevant services and parent and community-engagement. H3 operates Monday-Friday from 3-6 p.m. during the school year and 12-4 p.m. in the summer. Eight apartment-based afterschool/summer program sites serve 240 elementary and middle school children. Activities include: • Homework support and learning centers for reading, writing and STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts and Mathematics) • Trauma-informed enrichment activities that include social-emotional education, play therapy, social clubs • Interactive SEL (social-emotional learning) activities to develop lifelong characteristics, such as resilience, persistence and curiosity. • Acculturation and leadership-building activities, including mentoring, birthday celebrations, community service and cultural potlucks. Heart House views the cultural diversity of our students and families as tremendous assets to the Vickery Meadow community and throughout the year, and holds cultural potlucks and gatherings, health fair, a Family Fest, and December Festival of Lights. Heart House’s summer session will be immersed in an “Around the World” theme to increase learning and understanding about other places, people and cultures. Heart House clients are reflective of the diversity of Vickery Meadow and of the greater Dallas-Fort Worth region, and cultural embracement and celebration is integrated within Heart House projects. Heart House serves 240 K-8th grade students; most (98%) are non-native English speakers, and 18 languages/dialects are represented. Due to crime and political instability, 85% of students have been displaced from their country of origin. All students qualify for free or reduced school lunches. Demographics: 65% Asian/ Asian American ; 11% African National ; 6% African American ; 15% Latino; 2 % Middle Eastern; Less than 1% Caucasian Languages spoken at Heart House include: Burmese, Spanish, Chin Hakha, Nepali, Rohingya, Kerenni, Malay, Karen, Swahili, Somali, Chin Falam, Rwanda, Farsi, Arabic, Bantu, Zomi, Tigrigna, Tamil, Mizo, Malayalam, Jingpho, Hindi, Edu, Chin Senthang, Amharic and Kinyarawanda. The Head, Heart, Hands (H3) program operates Monday-Friday from 3:00–6:00 p.m. on all school days of Dallas ISD and 12:00-4:00 p.m. in the summer. Heart House currently operates four apartment-based afterschool and summer program sites in the Vickery Meadow community serving 240 elementary and middle school children. COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT & FUNDERS Engaging with the broader community is a core value, and Heart House relies on the generosity and investments of our community, business, foundation, and private philanthropic funders. SMI Realty and Pallas provides in-kind support to house our current sites: Park Lane, Pineland, Wildflower and Stratford Hills. Agency partners include Northwest Community Center, Dallas Afterschool, SMU, Dallas Theological Seminary, City of Dallas Welcoming Communities and Immigrant Affairs, Vickery Meadow Brain Trust. An average of 300 individual volunteers, along with dozens of faith-based and corporate employee groups annually support Heart House through time, pro-bono support, funding, and expertise. There are many ways to engage with Heart House the year as Calm Ambassadors!