AVANCE-Dallas in partnership with the Texas Association for Infant Mental Health and other community agencies were awarded a 1.5 million dollar grant to develop the Baby University Project. The Baby University Project will address the particular needs of immigrant Hispanic families and their young children in Bachman Lake. These low-income families desire to achieve success for themselves and their children, but they often do not know how to engage in activities that breeds success. Parents will learn how influential they are over their children's growth during the stage of birth to age five, and the Baby University Project will teach them practical ways they can stimulate their children and their vocabulary development from day one.

TAIMH will directly be involved in the Baby University Promotoras aspect of the project. The Promotoras will be a grassroots movement of volunteer mom leaders who will take what they've learned to the larger Bachman Lake Community. TAIMH will provide training in brain development, temperament, attachment theory giving the parents the knowledge and skills to help their children grow socially, emotionally and intellectually. The volunteer Promotoras may also earn the Level 1 Infant Mental Health Endorsement.

This project will serve over 1,650 children over the course of five years.

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Dallas Giving Day celebrates the contributions of Dallas' more than 8,000 nonprofit organizations. These groups work tirelessly to improve our city by feeding, sheltering, clothing, teaching and enriching our community in countless ways.

Created by Communities Foundation of Texas in partnership with the Center for Nonprofit Management and with support from The Dallas Foundation, the inaugural Dallas Giving Day in 2009 marks the launch of DonorBridge, a new online resource to connect nonprofits with potential donors.

Through Dallas Giving Day, we want to shine a light on the important role nonprofit organizations play in our region. Many are counter-cyclical, meaning when the economy worsens, the demands for services rises. And when the enconomy is down, donations are down.

Dallas Giving Day encourages the residents of North Texas to open their hearts and wallets in support of their neighbors by giving to worthy nonprofit organizations.

As an added incentive, donations made through donorbridgetx.org on May 20th will be matched, dollar or dollar, until the matching fund of $200,000 provided by Communities Foundation of Texas and The Dallas Foundation is exhausted.

Access DonorBridge on May 20, 2009, make a contribution, and help TAIMH earn matching funds.

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Help TAIMH continue to promote the healthy emotional development of infants, toddlers and their families in Dallas and throughout the State of Texas!